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Popple Creek Wins Colfax Dartball League Tournament Championship

By Phil Diser April 28, 2025

MENOMONIE - The Fellowship Hall at Memomonie United Methodist Church was jammed and noisy Monday evening March 17 when six teams battled four hours for the Colfax Church Dartball League Annual Tournament...

Menomonie Theater Guild Presents the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

Menomonie Theater Guild Presents the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

April 28, 2025

MENOMONIE, WI—The Menomonie Theater Guild is proud to present The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, a humorous and heartwarming musical directed by Carol Diser-Ropella. The production will take...

Menomonie Eagles Baseball Team - WBA State Champion

Menomonie Eagles To Play a Full Slate of Games in 2025

By Layne Pitt, MNN Contributor April 23, 2025

MENOMONIE - The Menomonie Eagles baseball team returns to Wakanda Park this summer with a full slate of games. The 2024 Eagles played a limited schedule after not playing during the 2023 season. The team,...

Wheeler Renaissance

Wheeler Renaissance

By Renee Carrell April 23, 2025

About ten years ago, I remember flipping through a calendar that featured twelve small towns and villages in Dunn County. Each month showcased a sepia-toned photograph from around the turn of the 20th...

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Menomonie Blue Caps To Get 2025 Season Underway

By Layne Pitt, MNN Contributor April 16, 2025

MENOMONIE - Soon the sounds of "Striker to the Line," "Huzzah" and "Two Hands Dead" (two outs) will return to the area as the Menomonie Blue Caps Base Ball Club will open the 2025 season. The vintage...

Red Cedar Raptors Show Support for Seidl Family at Home Opener

Red Cedar Raptors Show Support for Seidl Family at Home Opener

April 9, 2025

Source: Red Cedar Raptors Facebook The Red Cedar Raptors will be doing their part to show support for Menomonie's own, Ann Seidl. On April 26th, for our home opener, we will be celebrating the life...

A Menomonie Gem

A Menomonie Gem

By Annemarie McClellan April 9, 2025

The Menomonie Community Garden is a vibrant hub of activity, where locals come together to cultivate more than just the soil. For 17 years, gardeners have been tending to their plots on the city's south...

July 4th Celebration Resumes at Wakanda Park

July 4th Celebration Resumes at Wakanda Park

By MNN Staff April 9, 2025

  Wakanda Park will be the location of all day festivities on July 4th this year. Food trucks, fun run, music, pickleball, fireworks….events all day. Call 715-235-8393 (West Central WI Workforce...

A student enters Menomonie High School's front entrance

MHS Grads: Where are They Now?

By Judy Foust April 2, 2025

Touching base with all you readers… I currently have four graduates working on their stories, but none have submitted them yet. So I’m taking this time to remind you all that we NEED your contributions....

Free Program Discusses End of Life Care

Free Program Discusses End of Life Care

March 26, 2025

Program discusses the basics of Palliative and Hospice Care and answers your questions about end of life care. Includes a free light brunch and discussion with experts in this field of healthcare. Free...

Baseball Stories & Ballpark Songs

Baseball Stories & Ballpark Songs

March 26, 2025

Menomonie Public Library - Thurs March 27 - 6-7 p.m. - FREE Through the stories of nonfiction writer Ken Szymanski, listeners will journey through the major leagues and the minors, through the struggles...

MHS Grads: Where are They Now?

MHS Grads: Where are They Now?

By Judy Foust March 19, 2025

This week our featured MHS graduate is Justin Schwarz, Class of 2008. Justin started his college education at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, where he began a study-abroad...

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