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Teams are competing in the Great Wisconsin Birdathon to spot the most bird species within 24 hours and raise funds for bird conservation.

For a while during the Masters golf tournament in April, it looked like Madison’s Steve Stricker and the American Family Insurance Championship, the inaugural PGA Tour Champions event Stricker is hosting at University Ridge in three weeks, might catch a…

Devil's Lake is managed for brown trout by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. This spring the DNR released about 17,000 legal trout (9 inches) into the 50-foot depths. Boats are allowed, but you can only use electric motors which…

I, and certainly many other veterans, who receive excellent and timely care from the Veterans Hospital in Madison were offended by Phil Hands’ Sunday cartoon. It used a Memorial Day cartoon to suggest veterans “died in line at the VA.”

Again, Steven Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, hit the nail on the head in their Monday "Ask the Weather Guys" column.

My twin brother and I were born two months before the end of World War II.

Headed into the 2016 girls soccer season, Belleville/New Glarus girls soccer coach John Ziperski sought to replace a conspicuous hole in his team’s formidable defensive wall.

A Dane County prosecutor has asked a judge to let him amend animal cruelty charges against an Evansville coyote hunter who shot and killed two pet dogs from felonies to misdemeanors, after he was not able to find prior cases…

MADISON - Lois Ann McDowell, age 84, of Madison, passed away on Sunday, May 15, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital following a brief illness. She was born June 7, 1931, in Beloit, the daughter of Lee and Lucille (Brovich) Christofferson.

MADISON / POYNETTE - Erna Leona Hazard, age 97, of Madison and Poynette, passed away on Friday, May 27, 2016, in Cuba City, Wis. She was born on Oct. 10, 1918, in Carson, N.D., the daughter of Fred and Magdalena…

MADISON - Geraldine Florence "Gerry" Lutz, age 71, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, May 28, 2016. She was born on Jan. 2, 1945, the daughter of Elmer and Bernice (Anderson) Sailing. Gerry was born and raised in Madison.…

LODI/ WAUNAKEE - Gloria Roeber, age 86, of Lodi/Waunakee, died on Saturday, May 28, 2016, at her home in Lodi following a brief illness. A Gathering will be held on Sunday, June 12, 2016, at REX'S INNKEEPER in Waunakee from…

ARENA - Theila Fern Wood, age 85, of Arena, passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2016, at Heartland Country Village in Black Earth. She was born in Richland Center on Sept. 12, 1930, the daughter of Clifford and Dorothy (Fry)…

WISCONSIN DELLS - Marvin Platt, age 88, of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., passed away peacefully Saturday, May 28, 2016, at the Sauk County Health Care Center in Reedsburg.

LODI - Curtis J. Walstad, age 72, passed away on Sunday, May 29, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare. He was born on March 9, 1944, in Dodgeville, the son of Henry and Frances Walstad. Curtis proudly served in the United States…

ARENA - John Louis Forseth, age 75, of Arena, made his highest climb on May 28, 2016, when he lost his 25 year battle to prostate cancer.

WAUNAKEE - Betty Teetzen, age 72, of Waunakee, died on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, at the Waunakee Manor Health Care Center following a long illness. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Winn-Cress Funeral Home in Waunakee. Please share your memories…

LODI - Lisa K. Lovik, age 37, passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2016. She was born May 3, 1979, in Rockford, Ill., the daughter of Richard and Nancy Stamler. Lisa married Sandy Lovik Jr. on Oct. 16, 1999. She…

MOUNT HOREB - Jacob D. "Jake" Wermerskirchen, age 84, of Mount Horeb, Wis., died on Saturday, May 28, 2016, at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison, Wis.