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Menomonie News Net

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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...

A student enters Menomonie High School's front entrance

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...

A group of men play dartball

Dartball Still At-Bat

By Phil Diser March 19, 2025

MENOMONIE - Dartball barely hangs on today in the Dunn County area with one small league after being introduced to the area 91 years ago and being very popular for more than 40 years. From the 1940s,...

Menomonie's mayor in front of a school bus

Mayor Randy Knaack Wants Everyone to Love Menomonie

By Naomi Cummings March 19, 2025

Menomonie Mayor Randy Knaack says he is a strong believer in giving back. "It's not about the title; it's about community service," he said. When he was elected mayor in 2010, he imagined that he would...

UW-Stout's women's basketball team celebrates a win to send them to the NCAA Division III Final Four.

Blue Devils Advance to Final Four

By Layne Pitt March 18, 2025

MENOMONIE - The UW-Stout women's basketball team advanced to the NCAA Division III Women's Final Four for the first time in the school's history with two wins last weekend in Scranton, Pa. The Blue Devils'...

Founder of Khan Academy to speak at Stout event

Founder of Khan Academy to Speak at Effordability Summit

By Amber Olson March 12, 2025

MENOMONIE - The founder of Khan Academy will be one of the keynote speakers as the University of Wisconsin-Stout hosts the 7th annual Effordability Summit at the Memorial Student Center, Monday, April...

Free Run/Walk Fitness Class

Free Run/Walk Fitness Class

March 12, 2025

Ready for spring to get out and get moving? Join us at the library Mondays and Wednesdays March 24-May 28. Class is FREE For runners & walkers ages 14+ Meet in library meeting...

A car in the distance drives down a rural road.

No Roundabouts in Menomonie??

By Linda Olson March 12, 2025

The City of Menomonie together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) have been exploring the use of roundabouts for at least a decade. At the April 2024 meeting of the Menomonie City Council...

MHS Grads: Where are they now?

By Judy Foust February 26, 2025

Two for the price of one! When I first put out my plea for updates about MHS students, one of my first responders was Bonnie DeHoff. She and her husband Bill wanted to share short updates on both...

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Otter Creek Cemetery

By Renee Carrell February 19, 2025

It’s a lonely two acre plot of land in the corner of a farm field on County Road N. Most people would drive right by and never realize it was a graveyard, if not for the old rusty sign that simply says...

A student enters Menomonie High School's front entrance

MHS Grads: Where are they Now?

By Judy Foust February 19, 2025

Joe Leventhal (class of 1991), the subject of our first article of the series, was one I couldn’t resist—mainly because Joe wrote it himself. If you know him, you may remember Joe’s amazing...

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