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Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Maybe it is the bird’s diminutive dimensions that attract attention to Ruby-throated hummingbirds during these oft-times long, hot, lazy days of summer.

Paul Johnsen of Fort Atkinson is this week’s You Toon winner.Congrats, Paul! His caption about eating bratwurst beat out more than 120 entries. Johnsen wins publication of his line with today’s finished cartoon. He also will receive a signed print…

Pop art, op art, minimalism, fluxus, and conceptual art movements were introduced in the 1960s. Delving into their permanent collection, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOCA) assembled art representing these historical movements into “Far Out — Art from the 1960s.”…

Why not Wisconsin? That’s what offensive lineman Joe Panos said when the Wisconsin Badgers were rebuilding their dismal football program in the early 1990s.

Preliminary registration numbers suggest this spring’s turkey hunters killed 38,886 birds, compared to 43,305 in 2017.

WIAA STATE TRACK

There was no running program in the Gale-Ettrick-Trempeleau School District when a 12-year-old Dana Feyen had no outlet where she could chase her dreams.

David Vannucchi had yet to win a 3,200-meter state title entering Saturday. The Onalaska Luther junior came close last season but was passed by Valley Christian’s Wesley Schiek in the final 600 meters to take second. Sure, he had two…

I remember vividly the vision of Michael Bennett being carried to the trainer’s room after injuring his hamstring during a Division 1 100-meter final at the WIAA state track and field meet.