Stevens Point News

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RUDOLPH -- The Rev. Chester Osowski has celebrated his 60th anniversary in the priesthood.

UWSP students are connecting with the community..by volunteering. Students in the SERVE Program logged about 62-hundred hours of community service last school year.

A 1,069-mile car ride wasn't going to stop Paula Kapral. The Tallahassee, Fla. woman packed up her car with her two sons, ages 6 and 4, and plenty of music, both kid- and adult-friendly varieties, and headed north to Oshkosh, where she would meet up with 35 friends she has made during her last three visits to Lifest at the Sunnyview Expo Center.

STEVENS POINT -- The Pointer, the student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, is about to make a bunch of new friends.

STEVENS POINT -- Despite a slight decline in numbers, the volunteer program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point was able to donate more during the 2008-09 school year.

City of Stevens Point staff members and local property owners have created a plan to redesign the frontage road between Scholfield and Academy avenues, long a trouble area for accidents because of a jagged intersection at Academy.

University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly will propose a 5.5 percent tuition increase at four-year universities for the 2009-10 school year this week, the same increase approved by the Regents the past two years.

The Fourth of July can mean picnics and fireworks, but it also means more officers enforcing drinking and driving laws and directing extra traffic that comes with the Riverfront Rendezvous crowd.

The economy might be changing spending habits, but the groups that rely on people buying food at the Riverfront Rendezvous for fundraising are optimistic heading into the weekend.

Many children in Stevens Point are ending their day with a sugar rush after attending the city's annual parade.

Stevens Point Attorney Ron Skrenes says even if you don't have millions of dollars... it's still important to have a will.

Do you think there should be a wolf hunting season in Wisconsin? Yes, it would be good to protect livestock and pets.

Wisconsin voters could cast ballots up to a month before an election under terms of an early-voting plan being considered by state election officials.

President Barack Obama's administration has made two U.S. Department of Agriculture appointments affecting Wisconsin.

A 32-year-old Stevens Point woman facing charges in connection with an illegal adoption pleaded not guilty Monday to drug charges.

For those who remember the 1980s, there are few things that bring the decade to mind more than Michael Jackson.

STEVENS POINT - Rick Wilke, a University of Wisconsin System Distinguished Professor of Environmental Education, and director of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Environmental Education Training Program, has retired from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point after 32 years of service in the College of Natural Resources.

The Stevens Point Chapter NSDAR held its annual awards luncheon May 20 at the Stevens Point Country Club.

Marshfield area drivers will be able to access the nearest interstate highway a bit faster after the first section of the expanded Highway 10 opens next week.