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    October 7, 2016
    Weekend Happenings Oct. 7-9
    This weekend in River Falls: Friday Falls Theatre "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children," 7 and 9:15 p.m. Public Library Gallery "Whodunit -- a Mystery at the Library" Visit the world of your favorite famous fictional sleuths. Saturday "Loons and the Deepwater Horizon Oil...
    Life/eventsOctober 7, 2016 - 4:00pm
    September 22, 2016
    Bacon Bash visitors try to catch stuffed pigs from the roof of Riverwalk Mercantile Sunday morning, Sept. 18, for the "When Pigs Fly" event that kicked off day two of the Bacon Bash. play button
    Crowds 'pig out' at Bacon Bash
    The fourth annual Bacon Bash drew crowds of people from River Falls, the area, and beyond. More than 11,000 visitors enjoyed free bacon samples,...
    Life/eventsSeptember 22, 2016 - 11:45am
    September 16, 2016
    The Burke family, from left to right, Lily age 11, Mike (husband), Charlie age 8, Angie and Samantha age 14 The Oct. 1 Bags for Burke event will serve as a fundraiser to help support the family. In June 2016 Angie Burke found out that she had a cancerous brain tumor, she faces over a year of chemotherapy and radiation. (Submitted photo)
    Bags for Burke fundraiser: 'It's our turn to let her heal'
    A diagnosis isn’t enough to keep a community down, even one like cancer. When Angie Burke received the news this summer that she had a tumor...
    Life/eventsSeptember 16, 2016 - 11:37am
    August 27, 2016
    Featured column: Even in death, she'll have the last word
    Nature is a cycle of birth and death. It's positive and negative. Creative and destructive. There's a profound kind of collapse and contraction. Just before her 89th birthday, my mother died on May 31. Earlier this month, while facing a burnished sunset, I finally scattered her ashes...
    opinion/columnsAugust 27, 2016 - 6:00am
    August 12, 2016
    Magna Ressler of Mann Valley 4-H was allowing people to pet this Blue Silky chicken outside the rabbit and poultry barn Friday morning at the Pierce County Fair. (Herald photo by Sarah Young)play button
    WATCH: Friday fun at the Pierce County Fair
    ELLSWORTH -- The Pierce County Fair kicked off Friday with junior horse and open dairy judging, followed by junior and open goat judging. Check...
    Life/eventsAugust 12, 2016 - 4:35pm
    August 5, 2016
    The staff of St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice, from left to right: Program Coordinator Tovah Flygare, intern Carla Ortiz Perez, Program-Center Operations Liana Frey and Executive Director Susan Capparelli. (River Falls Journal photos by Naomi N. Lugo)
    SCVRJ puts justice into the hands of the community
    Accountability is the ultimate goal of St. Croix Valley Restorative Justice. The River Falls-based nonprofit works with the larger community...
    Life/eventsAugust 5, 2016 - 4:00pm
    July 27, 2016
    Heather Sweeney and 18-month-old daughter Sydney enjoy some food at the annual River Falls Municipal Utilities customer appreciation event.play button
    RFMU thanks customers with food, fun in the sun
    Both food and sunshine were plentiful at the annual River Falls Municipal Utilities customer appreciation event held last 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Thursday,...
    Life/eventsJuly 27, 2016 - 3:03pm
    July 9, 2016
    Woman charged with prostitution out of a chicken coop
    A Star Prairie area woman is accused of neglecting her children, who authorities say were left behind while she slipped outside to prostitute herself inside a modified chicken coop. Sarah M. Bradehoft, 27, was charged June 23 in Polk County Circuit Court with two felonies -- child...
    News/crime and courtsJuly 9, 2016 - 6:00am
    July 6, 2016
    These chairs and blankets are just some of those savings seats on Second Street for River Falls Days parade-goers.
    Featured photo: Parade seats saved
    Blankets and chairs have started appearing on Second, Division, and Main Street along the River Falls Days Parade Route, marking people's places...
    Life/arts and entertainmentJuly 6, 2016 - 1:00pm
    July 5, 2016
    Ashley Simonson and Brett Jungmann play Flotsam and Jetsam in the Great River Road Theatre’s staging of “The Little Mermaid.” First curtain goes up July 8. (Herald photo by Sarah Young)
    Theatre troupe brings ‘A whole new world’
    PRESCOTT -- The Great River Road Theatre is promising a show that will knock your socks off for its 2016 summer production. Attendees can look...
    Life/arts and entertainmentJuly 5, 2016 - 10:57am
    June 25, 2016
    Kevin Burkart attempted to skydive 300 times in 24 hours on June 15, in an effort to raise money for Parkinson's Disease in Baldwin, Wisconsin.
    Skyfall: Man goes for the record, has personal motivation
    On June 15 Kevin Burkart, 45, Prior Lake, Minn., set out to accomplish what no one had before: Jumping out of a plane 300 times in one day, with...
    Life/eventsJune 25, 2016 - 6:00am
    June 20, 2016
    Joelle and Nolan Mathison of Hudson played in a construction truck on Saturday, June 18, at the bi-annual Touch-A-Truck event held in River Falls.play button
    Touch-A-Truck brings record attendance and family fun
    The bi-annual Touch-A-Truck event was held on Saturday, June 18 at the River Falls High School parking lot. It was the largest since the event...
    Life/eventsJune 20, 2016 - 3:21pm
    June 17, 2016
    Weekend Happenings: June 17-19
    To share your River Falls area events with the Journal, please email reporter Gretta Stark at gstark@rivertowns.net. This week in River Falls:...
    Life/eventsJune 17, 2016 - 3:33pm
    June 16, 2016
    Many families enjoyed the free pancake breakfast at Town ‘N Country Day Sunday. From left are 6-year-old Logan, 3-year-old Hunter, and dad Michael Lubich.
    This day brought country fun to town
    Though weather brought a slower than average start to this year's Town 'N Country Day, Sunday, June 12, organizers said it was a good day overall....
    Life/eventsJune 16, 2016 - 1:23pm
    River Falls Public Works Superintendent Terry Kusilek always brings the city’s big equipment and vehicles, like the street sweeper behind him, to Touch-A-Truck.
    River Falls Touch-A-Truck: Crowd pleaser since 2004
    The every-other-year Touch-A-Truck will be held for the seventh time from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, June 18, in the high school's east parking...
    Life/eventsJune 16, 2016 - 6:00am
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