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    February 18, 2015
    Pepper Fest gives local organizations $25,077
    The Pepper Fest Committee’s annual meeting was held Feb. 5, at the St. Joseph Town Hall and the organization gave away $25,077 to various organization...
    news / businessFebruary 18, 2015 - 12:15pm
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    February 14, 2015
    Free tax preparation available at WITC
    Like winter, it comes every year at this time and affects nearly everyone: tax filing season. And after more than 20 years, the VITA program at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College is again prepared to assist people with free tax preparation. VITA also provides a 24-hour hotline...
    news / businessFebruary 14, 2015 - 7:00am
    January 9, 2015
    Citizens State Bank helps pioneer ‘equity crowdfunding’ for start-ups
    Hudson’s Citizen State Bank has emerged as a key player in a pioneering state business-financing program that combines the convenience of online...
    news / businessJanuary 9, 2015 - 12:19pm
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    December 22, 2014
    Nelson Lindquist Law Firm offers ‘a new way to practice’
    Hudson attorneys Andrew Nelson and Autumn Lindquist have a motto they think will resonate with people who are wary of the bombastic, fast-talking,...
    news / businessDecember 22, 2014 - 4:29pm
    December 16, 2014
    Most of tobacco lawsuit dollars used to prop up state budget; Baraboo adopts policy for transgender athletes; 10 more Wisconsin stories
    A new report says Wisconsin will receive $756 million in the current fiscal year from cigarette tax revenues and the 1998 lawsuit settlement against tobacco companies. However, the state will only spend less than a penny of each dollar of the money received on stop-smoking programs...
    news / regionDecember 16, 2014 - 8:08am
    November 5, 2014
    An unintended donation?
    It’s possible that someone who donated an item of clothing to the Ken and Martina Steltzner family after they lost their home to fire on Oct. 25 gave more than they intended. A pouch with cash inside was found in one of the pockets. Ernie Spinks, Ken Steltzner’s stepfather,...
    life / eventsNovember 5, 2014 - 7:39pm
    September 22, 2014
    United Way Kicks off 2014 Campaign; Jason Davis honorary campaign chair
    United Way St. Croix Valley launched its 2014 Campaign on Sept. 15. The annual fundraising appeal, which funds United Way initiatives and local nonprofit programs and services serving Pierce, Polk and St. Croix county residents, will run through Nov. 17. Former “On the Road”...
    life / familySeptember 22, 2014 - 9:47am
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    August 8, 2014
    County and sheriff’s deputies reach agreement on new labor contract
    Tuesday morning, Aug. 5, St. Croix County supervisors finalized a union contract that will give 70 St. Croix County patrol deputies, investigators and jailers pay increases for 2013, 2014 and 2015. The agreement with the Wisconsin Professional Police Association was adopted on...
    news / governmentAugust 8, 2014 - 10:25am
    Police want to keep suspected drug money found in room of dead North Hudson man
    A petition was filed recently in St. Croix County Circuit Court asking that $4,400 found in the bedroom of a young man who died at home be forfeited to the North Hudson Police Department. According to the complaint, the money had been in the possession of Eric Michael Swanby,...
    news / crime and courtsAugust 8, 2014 - 10:18am
    July 7, 2014
    St. Croix County's jobless rate of 3.9% is third lowest in the state
    The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced the preliminary May 2014 unemployment rates for Wisconsin’s 72 counties on June 25. At 3.9 percent, St. Croix County’s rate is the third lowest in the state. St. Croix’s May rate is lower than April’s final...
    news / businessJuly 7, 2014 - 8:49am
    June 18, 2014
    Insurance mainstay Steve McDonald retires - sort of - after 37 years
    How did Steve McDonald build one of the country’s most successful insurance agencies from a modest Hudson office near the Interstate? Lesson...
    news / businessJune 18, 2014 - 11:47am
    April 30, 2014
    Royal Credit Union opens Hudson branch
    It took longer than anticipated –- and it’s in a different location than first planned –- but Royal Credit Union now has a Hudson branch. The...
    news / businessApril 30, 2014 - 3:04pm
    April 18, 2014
    St. Croix County’s February unemployment rate is 5.6 percent
    The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) last week announced the preliminary February 2014 unemployment rates for Wisconsin’s 72 counties. At 5.6 percent, St. Croix County’s rate is the sixth lowest in the state. St. Croix’s February rate is higher than January’s...
    news / businessApril 18, 2014 - 9:43am
    February 12, 2014
    It's now Eichstaedt CPA & Accounting
    The “Eichstaedt CPA” sign that went up in front of a prominent North Hudson accounting firm in early January announced an ownership change...
    news / businessFebruary 12, 2014 - 2:50pm
    December 30, 2013
    Salvation Army bell-ringers reach their goal: $50,000-plus
    The marathon bell-ringing session for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign kicked off in Hudson on Thursday, Dec. 19, in front of County Market grocery at 1 p.m. Jeremy Lilyquist and Derek Gilbert ran bells for the next 30 hours, raising $51,198 in money and pledges for...
    life / foodDecember 30, 2013 - 4:34pm
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