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The System is projecting to have 540 more students this fall over last, an 0.3% increase over last year’s final enrollment numbers. Source: LacrosseTribune.com

Maude Estella (Powell) Billington, age 98, of Big Flats WI passed away at home on September 8th 2023. Maude was an avid reader who amassed quite a personal library and enjoyed doing crossword puzzles. She especially enjoyed watching her great grandchildren grow into adulthood. Maude was born June 26th, 1925, in Columbia County Wisconsin to Father Ernest Powell and Mother Lillian May (Babcock) Powell. She married Randall George Billington on July 3rd 1942 in Portage Wisconsin. She and Randall were the parents to Sons Randall (Rita) Billington, Roy Billington and Daughter Wendy Hiller. She was preceded in death by her parents: Ernest and Lillian Powel; husband, Randall G Billington; sons:

Republicans who control the Wisconsin Senate plan to vote on overriding three of Gov. Tony Evers’ vetoes, including one that attempted to enshrine school funding increases for 400 years. Republicans have the necessary two-thirds majority to override the vetoes in… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

The Wisconsin Assembly is scheduled to pass a hastily introduced redistricting plan that Republicans say gives Democrats a nonpartisan process for drawing political boundary lines. Democrats are suspicious of Republican motives and have summarily rejected the plan modeled after Iowa’s… Source: LacrosseTribune.com

A northern Iowa police officer was shot Wednesday night, prompting a manhunt that ended with an arrest in Minnesota. The Iowa State Patrol says the officer was shot around 8 p.m. in Algona, a town of about 5,300 residents. The… Source: LacrosseTribune.com