Holcombe News

The Free Beer Quartet hadn't sung together in 25 years, but they recently reunited for a tryout on a nationally-televised show.

Here are the latest street construction reports in the Chippewa Valley, according to the Eau Claire Public Works Department and state Department of Transportation: Under construction and closed to traffic n Alley east of Hobart Street from Oak Street to Elm Street and Madison Street to William Street.

Here are the latest street construction reports in the Chippewa Valley, according to the Eau Claire Public Works Department and State Department of Transportation: Eau Claire Under construction and closed to traffic - Lincoln Avenue from Drummond Street to 150 feet east.

Deputies arrest three people for burglarizing a business. Captain Eugene Gutsch says 20-year-old Christopher Krenzelok, 18-year-old Cody Gunderson, and 20-year-old Michael Vandervort are all booked into jail for armed burglary.

Walleye bag limits on the following area lakes have been adjusted for the upcoming sport fishing season based on Chippewa Indian spearfishing declarations.

Olivia 'Ollie' Daul, 88, De Pere, formerly of Green Bay, passed away Friday, April 10, 2009, with her family by her side.

The Ladysmith Common Council will have two new members following an election Tuesday marked by light turnout.

Wisconsin's maple syrup producers could find themselves in a sweet spot with higher prices and volumes despite more cautious behavior by consumers.

Travelers can expect minor traffic disruptions during the upcoming summer road construction season, both by land and by sea.

Traffic on Hastings Way is expected to be shifted this week as part of the first phase of the $8.7 million project replacing the Hastings-Birch Street interchange with an at-grade signalized intersection.

For more information about maple syrup in Wisconsin, contact the Wisconsin Maple Syrup Producers Association, www.wismaple.org, or Gretchen Grape, executive director, at Grape's Sugar Bush, 715-447-5758 or www.grapessugarbush.com. Grape's, 33186 Highway W, east of Holcombe, sells syrup at the farm and takes mail orders.

Foster's Riverview Inn and Paradise Shores are working together to create their own economic stimulus in the Holcombe area.

Area voters chose who will move on to the general election in April. The Chippewa county judge race is down to Jim Isaacson, who got 38% of the vote, and Steve Gibbs, with 34%. In Eau Claire, city council ...

Justice: A Minnesota man gets three years prison time for selling meth in Eau Claire in the fall of 2008.

Lake Holcombe Schools is one of nine in the state chosen to be a part of the "What Moves U Challenge." From jumping jacks to sit ups to crunchies, it doesn't matter to these kids how they move, but why.

A former Lake Holcombe school district teacher went from being depressed about her first year teaching band to the "hot, popular girl in school," according to police reports and interviews with people related ...

The "What Moves U Challenge," a physical fitness program from the Green Bay Packers and the American Heart Association, gets under way this week at nine schools in Wisconsin.

My name is John Clausnitzer, born and raised here in Medford. I am one of three sales associates here at K99 and I cover the communities of Athens, Edgar, Gilman, Lake Holcombe, Marathon and Wausau.

An avid fly fisherman and fishing guide is the latest Wisconsin world record holder for the monster musky he landed on the Chippewa River with a fly rod.

Carl A. Rasmussen, 23, Palm City, Fla., Nicole R. Dulian, 26, town of Lafayette.