Regional

Normal winters provide snow for animals, such as birds, to obtain and use for metabolism. 

Bald Eagle Watching Days returned to Sauk Prairie on Jan. 18 with a full slate of activities as the recent bitter cold rushed into the area.

Cold weather makes for ideal eagle watching as the birds stay around open water below the Prairie du Sac Dam to feed.

As consumers turn more heavily to online purchases, cardboard recycling has more than doubled in Wisconsin since 2013, while other paper recycling has dropped by 36 percent.

Consumers should check their refrigerators and pantries (or possibly gift baskets) for recalled meat sticks.

Friends of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and the Timber Wolf Education Network (TWIN) invite anyone interested in wolf ecology to attend a one day clinic on Feb. 1. 

Fern fronds are, in general, quite fragile. One fern species native to Wisconsin was given the name “fragile fern” because a portion of the frond (leaf) is so brittle, delicate, and is easily broken.

Applications are being accepted for the Annual Spring Green Arts & Crafts Fair, which will be held this summer.

The Fair, which has been around for more than 50 years, focuses on jewelry, painting, wood, fine crafts/mixed media, glass, pottery, photography, graphics, sculpture and fiber.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has begun the search for the next Alice in Dairyland.

Applications are being accepted through Jan. 31.

Wisconsin has had the highest participation rate ever for individual health insurance HealthCare.gov.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that 306,470 state residents have signed up for the latest round of coverage. This surpasses last year’s record by more than 40,000 people.

The monthly meeting of the Sauk County Institute of Leadership (SCIL) occurred in two Prairie du Sac venues on Dec. 12. The theme was home-cooked leadership.

The day began with a visit to Culver’s Headquarters, where SCIL met with Craig Culver and Culver’s Vice President Rich Modeski.