City wastewater treatment plant employee is awarded (Watertown Daily Times) Watertown's wastewater treatment plant laboratory manager Judy Tholen received a service award from the Wisconsin Wastewater Operators Associa-tion.

I-94 lanes to close this weekend (The Capital Times) Drivers to Milwaukee might want to plan for extra travel time this weekend as one lane in each direction on Interstate 94 in Jefferson County will be closed Saturday and Sunday night. The same stretch of I-94 from Airport Road west of Lake Mills to Wisconsin 26 at Johnson Creek will also have a single lane closure in both directions from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. each night Monday through Thursday. One ...

Waterloo farmer Michelle Root grows hops for Wisconsin Brewers Guild (Isthmus) As a mug club member at Tyranena Brewery in Lake Mills, Michelle Root routinely looks over the brewery's weekly newsletter to learn about what brews are being bottled along with the upcoming music schedule in the tasting room. But last winter when brewmaster Rob Larson wrote about concerns over a shortage in hops and the effect on beer costs, she took note and began looking into what it takes to ...

Leuer's 19 points leads No. 25 Wisconsin (AP via Yahoo! News) Reserve Jon Leuer scored 19 points to lead No. 25 Wisconsin to an 88-58 victory over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville on Tuesday night.

N.Y. Times takes note of Wisconsin drinking culture (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) Teenagers can drink legally in Wisconsin if accompanied by a parent, police cannot set up sobriety checkpoints here and drunken driving is not a felony in the state until the fifth arrest. The New York Times featured an article Sunday about efforts to curb Wisconsin’s drinking culture. The Times article notes those efforts come on the heels of a Journal Sentinel series, “Wasted in Wisconsin,” ...

Wisconsin Badgers football: Hill finishing with a flourish (Wisconsin State Journal) University of Wisconsin football coach Bret Bielema wasn't sure if junior tailback P.J. Hill was done for the day after suffering a shoulder stinger while pass blocking in the first quarter Saturday against Minnesota. "He was sitting on the bench, all hunched over and he had a coat on (with) warm sleeves. I said, 'Is he down?' (The trainers) said, 'No, but he's got to get his strength back,' '' ...