Six area middle schools get high marks (The Capital Times) Six area middle schools are among 80 being honored as exemplary by the state Department of Public Instruction and the Association of Wisconsin School Administrators. They are DeForest Middle School, Glacier Creek Middle School in the Middleton-Cross Plains District, James Wright and Spring Harbor middle schools in Madison, Lodi Middle School and Nikolay Middle School in Cambridge. Schools chosen ...

Community Calendar (Stevens Point Journal) Earth Kids, 10:15 a.m., Central Wisconsin Childrens Museum, CenterPoint MarketPlace, 1201 Third Court, Stevens Point. 715-344-2003.

Honors offered for kids who eat healthy, exercise (The Capital Times) Kids who eat right and exercise could be in line not only for better health and slimmer bodies, but honors from health organizations and the dairy industry. The Healthy Community Award program has been established by Public Health Madison and Dane County, Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin and Dane County Dairy Promotion, to recognize and reward efforts to provide kids with ...

Protecting the dark sky above the Lower Wisconsin (Wisconsin State Journal) SPRING GREEN — On a crystalline fall night, when the stars seem almost within reach, the view from the dark bank of the Lower Wisconsin River is of shadowy bluff and of still water and reflected constellations. On many such nights, the glowing stars in our galaxy trace a luminous path across the vault of the night sky. Timm Zumm, of Spring Green, frequently takes groups on outings down the ...

Wisconsin Badgers football notes: Rentmeester qualifies as must-see TV (Wisconsin State Journal) It has become must-see viewing on the University of Wisconsin football team. Everybody, it seems, gets a kick out of watching senior fullback Bill Rentmeester destroy opponents on special teams. "I get to see most of them," running backs coach John Settle said of the special teams tapes. "We give trucks on offense (for flattening opponents). "If we were giving them for special teams, ...

University of Wisconsin researchers hunting for disease-spreading ticks (The Capital Times) A University of Wisconsin research team will be joining the annual deer hunt -- to look for ticks that spread Lyme disease. More than a dozen scientists led by UW-Madison entomologist Susan Paskewitz will head to selected Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources deer registration stations Saturday to collect deer ticks from carcasses brought in by hunters. It's part of a fight against Lyme ...