Chetek News

Voters are weighing in on a merger that could close a small town school. In August, about 10 percent of the Weyerhauser population petitioned for a school merger between the Chetek and Weyerhaeuser School Districts.

Voters in the Weyerhaeuser Area and Chetek school districts will head to the polls Tuesday, Nov.

There's speculation that pilots were asleep when a northwest airlines flight overshot the Minneapolis - St.

3, 2009, on Lake Pokegama near Chetek, Wis. Waterways across the upper Midwest are increasingly plagued with ugly, smelly and potentially deadly blue-green algae, bloomed by drought and fertilizer runoffs from farm fields, that's killed dozens of dogs and sickened many people.

An update on those skeletal remains found on an island near Chetek. Achaeologists have now removed a practically complete skeleton from the site on Prairie Lake.

The Weyerhaeuser Area School Board will hold two meetings to provide information about an upcoming referendum on consolidating the Weyerhaeuser and Chetek school systems.

Recycling always has been important to Mary Mikula, but the Sand Creek postmaster took that passion to a new level last fall in response to a request from her boss.

Archaeologists will head to Barron County this week to search for more human remains.

Prehistoric skeletal remains were found Sunday on an island in a small lake near Chetek, Wis., about 100 miles northeast of the Twin Cities.

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A family out looking for rocks early Sunday evening in Barron County, Wis., stumbled onto an unusual find - a human skull.

An SUV arrives at the Stardust Drive-In Movie Theater in Chetek. The theater can be one of the highlights of a getaway to Chetek a ' where you can partake in all the delights of a small-town summer.

Residents in and around Weyerhaeuser and Chetek could be voting in November on a plan to consolidate the neighboring school districts.

A Wisconsin Veterinary Medical Association member and past president, Dr. Rene Carlson has put herself in the running for 2010 American Veterinary Medical Association president-elect. Carlson, of Chetek, Wis., earned her DVM degree from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and has worked as owner and director of the Animal ...

Burglary charges were dropped last week against a Chetek man who had been accused of causing thousands of dollars in damage to the city's library and two nearby businesses.

A major makeover helps move Barron County closer to the digital age. Since 2006, the county has been working on a $2,000,000 update to its communication system.

The Weyerhaeuser Area School Board has hired Dennis Richards as interim school district administrator.

The Weyerhaeuser Area and Chetek school boards each voted unanimously during a joint meeting last Wednesday to consolidate.

Many parts of Western Wisconsin are suffering through drought conditions. And while crops and lawns are suffering, so are people with water wells.

A Nekoosa man has won the top prize in a Department of Natural Resources and Wisconsin Association of Lakes giveaway aimed at preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species and VHS fish disease .