Family

Applications have gone out to potential recipients as the Sharing Families project starts its 27th year of holiday giving. During their Oct....

Weekend Happenings: Oct. 24-26 This week in River Falls: Friday: Falls Theatre: Starting Friday, Oct 31: Alexander and the Terrible,...

While driving by, motorists can’t help but notice Dolores Pechacek’s front lawn in the town of Clifton. Decorated by her daughter Karen Marsh, it’s brimming with bright inflatables and other Halloween decorations, from large ghosts and black cats to pumpkins and black-clad...

Karen Marsh has been haunting her mother's farm with Halloween decorations every October for nearly a decade. This year is no exception. Marsh decorates with lights, inflatables, and other figures which include a very popular pirate-themed area. It is free for anyone to stop by...

Walk into the River Falls hospital, the clinic or take a ride in the River Falls ambulance, and you’ll be asked two questions. Have you travelled or been exposed to someone who has travelled to Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea? Do you display certain symptoms (see list...

About 500 people came out for the annual Fire Department open house Sept. 29. The open house kicks off “Fire Safety Month” in October. “It was a great turn-out on a great day,” said Pauline Williams, fire safety educator and volunteer firefighter. Folks were treated...

This time next year, Jessica Peterson hopes to see children playing on the Tri-Angels Playground – the one to be built at Hoffman Park in memory of her daughters Amara, Sophie and Cecilia Schaffhausen. The sisters were killed by their father Aaron Schaffhausen more than two years...

Even as staff and volunteers at Turningpoint for Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence work to come up with the money to add more bedrooms at the agency’s shelter, they are regularly turning away clients. The agency has raised only about half of the $120,000 needed to turn...

Kirby Symes, 84, the founder of Ellsworth's wrestling program and the face of history and civics lessons for thousands of Ellsworth High School students, died early Sunday, Sept. 28, at his home in River Falls following a lingering illness. Funeral is set for 11 a.m. Saturday,...

The pain was unbearable for Terry and Wanda Blaedorn when their youngest son, Corey, took his own life at age 22 last November.

This week in River Falls: Friday: Dixie Swim Club: The women of "The Dixie Swim Club" invite you to attend the River Falls Community Theatre's production of the fun-filled comedy about the importance of lasting friendship written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie...

The Grotenhuis Addition, on the east end of the UW-River Falls campus, celebrated its 14th annual Block Party on Saturday, Sept. 20. The Grotenhuis Addition includes approximately 56 homes that were built on the old George Grotenhuis farm in the 1960s. Every year, the neighborhood...

A "Family Fun Fly" was held again this year at the Highview Meadows Park, Sunday, Sept. 21, in River Falls. According to event organizer Anthony Markunas: "The day was filled with sunshine, smiles and, kites. Show kites were flown by the "pro's" and kids had a kaleidescope of color...

All moms and sons of all ages and activity levels are invited to a Mother/Son Outdoor Adventure from 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at Hoffman Park in River Falls. Moms and sons from 3- years-old to 5th grade can enjoy nature’s scavenger hunt, bean bags, sack races, crafts, caramel...