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  • Building a tradition: Community effort goes into creating the Eagle River Ice Castle

    Building a tradition: Community effort goes into creating the Eagle River Ice Castle
    2025/01/17
    The Eagle River Ice Castle has been a tradition since 1933 back when it was referred to as an ice palace.While designing and coordinating the build has changed leadership over the decades, it still remains an effort by the whole community.
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    4 分
  • Local artist creates more than 500 Christmas cards to ‘put more love into the world’

    Local artist creates more than 500 Christmas cards to ‘put more love into the world’
    2024/12/06
    It’s a tradition for many people to send out Christmas cards to friends and family wishing them well and sending them love.One Northwoods woman is sending out more than 500 cards this year, all of them going to strangers.
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    4 分
  • They spent decades building a successful Nordic ski center. Now, they’re giving it away to preserve it for future generations.

    They spent decades building a successful Nordic ski center. Now, they’re giving it away to preserve it for future generations.
    2024/11/15
    ABR trails in Gogebic County was started in 1995 by Eric Anderson and his father on their family homestead.Over the years Eric and his wife Angela have grown it into one of the top Nordic ski centers in North America.Now the Anderson’s are giving the business away, so it remains this way for generations to come.
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    6 分
  • Hiles Foray brings people to small Forest County town to discover “Mushroom haven”

    Hiles Foray brings people to small Forest County town to discover “Mushroom haven”
    2024/08/02
    Every July, dozens of fungi experts and novices descend on the Town of Hiles in Forest County.The town of around 450 people has been dubbed the Mushroom Capital of Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Mycological Society because of the diversity of mushrooms that can be found in the area.For WXPR’s We Live Up Here, Katie Thoresen tagged along on this year’s Hiles Mushroom Foray to learn more about what makes this area so unique.
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    5 分
  • 39th annual Czech-Slovak Festival celebrates heritage and culture in Phillips

    39th annual Czech-Slovak Festival celebrates heritage and culture in Phillips
    2024/06/21
    Every year, in Phillips, Wisconsin, members of the community show up in droves for the annual Czech-Slovak Festival.
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    5 分
  • Rhinelander Together sculpture designed to help people feel more connected to the community

    Rhinelander Together sculpture designed to help people feel more connected to the community
    2024/06/14
    Loneliness is considered a public health issue.There is growing evidence it is associated with the onset of depression and other common mental health problems.Artists and community members are working to create the “Together Sculpture” as part of a larger effort to combat loneliness in the Rhinelander area.
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    6 分
  • Family shares series of children's books promoting Potawatomi stories

    Family shares series of children's books promoting Potawatomi stories
    2024/04/12
    Forest County Potawatomi Community’s Lee White published a series of children’s books before his passing in 2020.
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    3 分
  • Volunteers and community create accessible experiences during Ski for Light event

    Volunteers and community create accessible experiences during Ski for Light event
    2024/02/09
    Ski for Light is an international non-profit that aims to teach visually- and mobility-impaired adults the sport of classic cross-country skiing.The lack of snow made the ski-part of the Ski for Light event in Rhinelander last week a bit hard to pull off.But in true Northwoods fashion, they found a way to make the best of it.
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    5 分