OHS student makes discovery in final frontier (Greater Milwaukee Today) OCONOMOWOC - Adam Beardsley never studied astronomy at Oconomowoc High School and never planned on majoring in it when he enrolled at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SE Wisconsin Gets First Snowstorm of the Season (WSAW Wausau) The National Weather Service says the heaviest band was six to 10 inches, which fell from around Sheboygan south to West Bend and Port Washington and west to Oconomowoc, Whitewater and La Grange.

ORBIS Corporation Acquires Norseman Plastics (ThomasNet) Customers will benefit from diversified product line and enhanced service levels OCONOMOWOC, Wis., October 27, 2008 - ORBIS Corporation, a subsidiary of Menasha Corporation, announced today that it has acquired Norseman Plastics Holdings, Ltd. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Norseman manufactures plastic reusable containers, trays, bins and pallets used in bakery, beverage, dairy, ...

Jumping silver carp discovered in Wisconsin waters (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) The super-sized cousin to the common carp was discovered late last week in Wisconsin waters of the Mississippi River. It is the first time silver carp, one of four species of Asian carp, have been confirmed in the state, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.

James Huff Stout inducted into Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame (Dunn County News) James Huff Stout, founder of the Stout Manual Training School in 1891 — now the University of Wisconsin-Stout, Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University — was among the first group of individuals to be inducted into the recently-created Wisconsin Library Hall of Fame. Ten individuals received the inaugural honor posthumously Nov. 6.

Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball: Another hostile venue awaits (The Capital Times) After taking one look at stately Cassell Coliseum, the 48-year-old basketball venue on the Virginia Tech campus, University of Wisconsin men's assistant coach Gary Close was reminded of some of the classic field houses and gyms in the Pacific-10. During his tour of duty at Stanford, he remembered having a close encounter of a roundball kind at Oregon's McArthur Court and Oregon State's Gill ...