Volume #4, Issue #3 | May 2013

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Cooking Corner - Hearty Herbed Frittata with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Homemade gourmet-type meals do not have to be complicated. They also don't have to take hours to plan and prepare. Turning your ordinary fare into something extraordinary takes little more than typical ingredients paired with an imagination and basic cooking skills.

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Large Number of Trumpeter Swans Visit Fall Creek

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Each spring an empty farm field between Augusta and Fall Creek becomes home to migrating waterfowl as they make their way from winter retreats to summer breeding grounds.  This extra large "mud puddle" swells to the size of a pond as the snow melts and the April showers pour. 

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Amish Opposition to Building Codes

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

Eau Claire County Corporation Counsel, state representatives, and other county officials, will be meeting with several Amish community leaders and members to work out, or convince the Amish to conform to the State building permit process.

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Con Man Sentenced To Three Years in Prison

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Bernard C. Seidling, 62, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison without parole, and fined $10,000, by Judge Barbara B. Crabb in United States District Court in Madison. Seidling was ordered to report to federal prison on May 21, 2013.

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La Crosse County Republican Shatters the Stereotypes

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

A young man neared the entrance to the Republican Party office during the 2008 presidential election.  The man at the door politely, but ignorantly, pointed him to the Democratic Party office which was located across the street. 

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Eau Claire County Passes Resolution Calling for Gun Ban

Posted: Thursday, April 25th, 2013

In the April Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors meeting, a resolution calling for a ban on "military-style" assault weapons and "high-capacity" magazines, among other calls, was passed by the board by a 17 to 10 vote.  The resolution was sent to all elected officials representing the area in Madison and representing Wisconsin in Washington, D.C.

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