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4 years
Chi-Hi sophomore goaltender Bridger Fixmer has been named to the Wisconsin Hockey Coaches Association All-State first team for the 2019-20 season. Teammates Isaac Lindstrom, Blake Trippler and Isaac Frenette were selected to the team as honorable...
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WISCONSIN RAPIDS — The Chi-Hi boys hockey team is heading to state for the first time since 1999 after defeating Hudson 2-1 on Saturday in the Division 1 sectional finals.
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Chippewa Steel goaltender Adam Gajan has been drafted with the 35th overall pick in this year's NHL Draft by the Chicago Blackhawks. Gajan is the first Steel player to be selected in team history and the third-highest NAHL player chosen ever.
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Is our economy doing better or worse? See recent changes in local employment, regional inflation and more in these regularly updated charts and maps.
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Chi-Hi senior Peyton Rogers-Schmidt and junior Joe Reuter teamed up to lead the Cardinal boys basketball team to its best season of the 21st century. The dynamic duo is the 2019-20 Chippewa County Co-Players of the Year.
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McDonell graduate and Central Michigan University outfielder Zach Gilles has won the 2020 Rawlings 'Big Stick' Award for his performance last summer for the Mankato Moondogs in the Northwoods League.
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Chi-Hi's Peyton Rogers-Schmidt, McDonell's Eion Kressin and Thorp's Isaac Soumis have been selected to the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association's all-state team as honorable mentions in their respective divisions.
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Chi-Hi senior Caelan Givens entered high school as a self-proclaimed 'scrawny little girl' that turned herself into a Division I collegiate commit and the program's career scoring leader through hard work and determination. Givens is the 2019-20...
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3 years
Jim Nelson’s love of bluegrass music derives, in part, from the way it lights up a group setting.
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3 years
McDonell graduate and Texas Rangers pitcher Kyle Cody will start the season with the big league club.
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8 years
Chi-Hi grad Thompson lands dream job as Cardinals activities director via @chippewaherald
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4 years
Tristan Moran posted his second upset in as many matches and junior Evan Wick recorded his 100th collegiate victory to spark ninth-ranked UW.
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8 years
Mike Thompson officially begins his role as Chi-Hi's athletic director Monday:
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4 years
Veteran forward Ian Famulak has been a key part of the Chippewa Steel's penalty kill and in recent weeks has shown more punch on the offensive end of the ice.
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When Jacob Walczak first arrived on the scene for the Chi-Hi boys basketball team, he was simply a shooter. But two years later, hard work and dedication has helped Walczak transform his game into an all-around threat for the Cardinals.
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3 years
A collection of photos from day one of Country Fest 2021 in Cadott. Features headliners Kane Brown and Dustin Lynch and other photographs from around the festival grounds.
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3 years
Following a year off from sanctioned play due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Chippewa River Baseball League returns to action this spring.
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3 years
Menomonie native and University of Wisconsin fullback Mason Stokke is signing with the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent.
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3 years
New Chippewa Steel head coach and general manager Mike Janda is excited to be in Chippewa Falls and with the organization as the Steel begin a two-week trip in Alaska.
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4 years
The Chi-Hi boys basketball team outscored Menomonie in the second half by a 43-17 margin to pull away to a 70-39 win, securing the program's first outright Big Rivers Conference championship since 1980.
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Joe and Lesa Vavra's first summer away from Major League Baseball in decades has been anything but boring as the couple is building a new house and enjoying being able to spend more time with their children who are still…
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3 years
It's been quite a run. Here's full coverage of Chippewa Falls/Menomonie girls' 3-2 overtime victory over the University School of Milwaukee in Saturday afternoon's state championship game, as well as previews and recent action
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4 years
It's time to retire after three decades of witnessing up close the golden era of sports in Wisconsin.
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3 years
Chi-Hi football coach Chuck Raykovich earned his 250th coaching win on Thursday as the Cardinals blanked Holmen 40-0. Raykovich is just the 21st coach in state history to reach the 250-win mark.
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5 years
Part of his new duties will involve overseeing more than 500 Young Americans for Freedom chapters. The foundation sends conservative speakers to college campuses across the country.
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7 years
Julia Nunes crowned as Northern Wisconsin State Fair's 2017 Fairest of the Fair:
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4 years
Peyton Rogers-Schmidt scored 29 points and Nick Bruder added 24 points as the Chi-Hi boys basketball team pulled away to a 83-63 win over Appleton East in Friday's Division 1 regional semifinals. McDonell, Bloomer and Thorp also won semifinal games…
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3 years
The Chippewa Falls/Menomonie girls hockey team scored once in each period to earn a 3-2 upset of top-seeded Western Wisconsin on Tuesday in the sectional semifinals. Paige Steinmetz, Brianna Buonincontro and Kendall Rudiger each scored for the Sabers,...
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4 years
Paul Ausman and Raquel Hoepner-Ausman suffered significant brain injuries 16 days apart in April 2017. Two-and-a-half years later, their recoveries have been difficult but this Thanksgiving the couple is grateful for the support they've received from...
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Joe Reuter finished with 24 points as part of a triple double while freshman Mason Monarski scored a season-high 19 points as the Chi-Hi boys basketball team outlasted state-ranked Eau Claire North 85-81 in double overtime on Friday to remain…
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3 years
Joe Reuter is passionate about the game of basketball, a love for the game that has fueled tremendous gains in his game on the way to becoming one of the top players in the state. Reuter is the 2020-21 Chippewa…
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7 years
#ExtraEffort : Surgeries no match for Chi-Hi's Mara and Maya Grant:
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8 months
The Chi-Hi volleyball team trailed 14-8 in the final set before rallying to beat Rice Lake in five sets on Thursday in Rice Lake.
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3 years
Sidney Polzin (Chippewa Falls Senior High School)
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3 years
The Chi-Hi volleyball team stayed unbeaten in Big Rivers play Tuesday with a straight-set win at Rice Lake. The victory sets up a winner-take-all matchup at River Falls on Thursday for the league championship.
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4 years
The Chi-Hi boys hockey team earned a No. 2 seed for the Division 1 state tournament and will face No. 3 Verona on Friday at approximately 12:15 p.m. at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison, according to pairings released by…
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4 years
Several second generation Chi-Hi boys hockey players took the ice for the Cardinals at the state tournament on Friday, following in the footsteps of relatives that played at the same tournament decades ago.
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3 years
Chippewa Falls/Menomonie senior Sidney Polzin has been named Ms. Hockey Wisconsin for the 2020-21 season while Sabers coach Tony Menard has been selected as the Girls Wisconsin Hockey Coaches Association's Coach of the Year.
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7 years
Unable to play, Peterson finds home with Chi-Hi athletics:
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1 year
The 94th year of the Chippewa River Baseball League is set to begin on Sunday, April 30 with three games.
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3 years
The Chi-Hi girls golf team made program history Wednesday, advancing to Division 1 sectionals as a team for the first time since the program returned to play in 2013.
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4 years
Photos from Tuesday's boys basketball contest between Chi-Hi and Menomonie at Johnson Fieldhouse in Menomonie. The Cardinals won 70-39 to capture the program's first outright Big Rivers Conference championship since 1980.
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8 years
Five Chi-Hi students, graduates in a band compete Friday in @rockonsin at Summerfest:
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4 years
Six goals in the second period and tight defense pushed the Chi-Hi boys hockey team to an 8-1 win over Wausau West on Tuesday in a Division 1 sectional semifinal matchup, moving the Cardinals one game away from state.
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Chippewa Falls native and McDonell graduate had a memorable 2020, making his major league debut with the Texas Rangers and also getting engaged. The pitcher enters 2021 eager to build off a successful first season in the majors.
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7 years
The Hakes family, whose father is a @ChippewaFallsPD officer, reflects on nation's rhetoric about law enforcement:
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An infusion of young talent to pair with veterans has sparked the Cadott Red Sox into CRBL playoff contention as the team seeks its first winning year since 1985.
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4 years
Peyton Rogers-Schmidt scored 23 points while Joe Reuter added 16 as the Chi-Hi boys basketball team dealt Eau Claire North its first defeat of the season on Tuesday in a 59-52 victory at Chi-Hi. The win moves Chi-Hi into a tie for first place in the…
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4 years
Peyton Rogers-Schmidt's 3-pointer in the final seconds pushed the Chi-Hi boys basketball team to a 59-56 win over River Falls on Monday at Chi-Hi, moving the Cardinals one step closer to the program's first Big Rivers Conference title since 1988.
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7 years
Jake Leinenkugel appointed as a senior White House advisor to the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington:
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2 years
Menomonie native Terrin Vavra has made an immediate impact with the Baltimore Orioles since being called up to the majors late in July.
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4 years
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Kyle Cody earned his first major league win as the Texas Rangers hit a season-high five home runs to power past the Los Angeles 7-2 on Sunday.
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3 years
UW-Platteville geographers sampled oaks across the Driftless region, including some that have been growing since the 1700s. They sampled rafters from historic homes and barns built from locally harvested timber to push the record back another century.
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Chi-Hi junior Brooklyn Sandvig went 3-for-3 on Friday afternoon in winning the 55- and 220-meter dashes and long jump for the track and field team at the Packy Paquette Invite.
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4 years
Joe Reuter and Peyton Rogers-Schmidt each scored 20 points and Jacob Walczak added 16 points as the Chi-Hi boys basketball team pulled away from Menomonie to a 72-62 victory in its season opener on Friday evening.
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Mason Von Haden ran for two scores and a late defensive stand lifted the Chi-Hi football team to a 21-14 upset of top-seeded Hudson on Friday. Cadott pulled an upset in Division 6 while Stanley-Boyd, Gilman and Thorp also won.
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Bloomer grad and MSU Moorhead sophomore Jack Strand enters Saturday's regular season finale with the University of Mary among Division II national leaders in many passing categories including second in yards and third in TDs.
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3 years
A librarian, historian and now award-winning author.
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7 years
. @TravelWI 's Big Bundle Up campaign made a stop in Chippewa Falls Tuesday, donating 1,100 items to local children:
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4 years
The Chi-Hi volleyball team won its sixth match in a row, besting Eau Claire Regis in three sets on Saturday at Chi-Hi (25-20,2 5-12, 25-19).
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3 years
Short-handed goals early and late were the difference for the Chi-Hi boys hockey team on Tuesday in a 6-4 Division 1 sectional semifinal win over Stevens Point at Chippewa Area Ice Arena. The Cardinals advance to Saturday's sectional finals to…
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The Chi-Hi volleyball team worked quickly on Saturday evening to claim a Division 1 regional championship with a straight-set win over Hudson (25-14, 25-10, 25-15) on Saturday evening at Chi-Hi.
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11 years
In Wisconsin, gun show at school no big deal: http://t.co/XEg7pr9I
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4 years
The Chi-Hi boys hockey team faces a familiar opponent on Saturday as the Cardinals meet fellow Big Rivers Conference program Hudson with a trip to the Division 1 state tournament on the line in the sectional finals.
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4 years
Micon Cinemas in Chippewa Falls is selling hundreds of movie posters and memorabilia, with the proceeds going to the Greenhalgh Memorial Music Endowment Fund, which was set up in the wake of the 2005 Chippewa Falls bus crash that killed…
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7 years
Chippewa's NSP sign was lit last night for the first time in over 20 years:
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3 years
The game will feature the top team from each conference to not make the NCAA Division III playoffs.
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4 years
Chi-Hi gymnasts Chloe Wingert and Riley Hinke have come on strong in recent weeks, leading them to this Saturday's WIAA Division 1 State Championships in Wisconsin Rapids.
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2 years
Tilden outfielder Jordan Steinmetz has been named the Chippewa River Baseball League's Most Valuable Player for the 2022 season among the many awards and achievements announced by the league.
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The Chi-Hi girls volleyball team got off to a strong start to the season Tuesday, winning all four matchups it played at a season-opening quad hosted by the Cardinals.
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8 years
Chippewa Falls couple who met in Chippewa County Jail said their vows Monday:
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3 years
The Chi-Hi football team held a powerful New Richmond running game in check and came up with a late turnover to score a 21-14 homecoming win over the previously unbeaten Tigers on Friday evening at Dorais Field.
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3 years
Photos from Saturday's Division 1 prep volleyball regional final contest between Chi-Hi and Hudson at Chi-Hi.
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1 year
In 2006, Joe Niese, began writing a book. It combined his love of baseball, literature and WWII. Today that book is available to the masses.
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3 years
Lily Borgenheimer has had to wait a long time for her chance, but the Chi-Hi graduate is ready as she prepares to compete in the first wave of the U.S. Olympic Trails for swimming in the 200-meter breaststroke on Monday…
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Chi-Hi's Lukas Wagner ran to victory on Saturday morning, taking the top spot for the Cardinal cross country team at the Old Abe Invitational hosted by Eau Claire Memorial at South Middle School.
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Chi-Hi boys hockey team made it through regionals and sectionals without allowing a goal, outscoring foes 20-0 on the way to the Division 1 state tournament. That and more on the Cardinals ahead of Friday’s state semifinals.
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7 years
Chi-Hi's DECA organized Wish Week to help an Eau Claire resident 'Make-A-Wish':
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3 years
The Chippewa Steel won four of its last seven games going into an important offseason for first-year coach Mike Janda.
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2 years
The Chi-Hi softball team remained unbeaten on the young season by earning a 6-1 nonconference win over Marshfield in a sectional final rematch on Monday evening at Casper Park.
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#ExtraEffort : Menomonie High School's Tyler Miller courageously battles rare genetic form of bone marrow failure:
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4 years
Here is the Chippewa Falls High School first semester honor roll. To earn a place, a student must have earned at least a 3.5 grade point average.
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4 years
McDonell graduate and Texas Rangers pitcher Kyle Cody has been placed in the organization's 60-man player pool, the Rangers announced on Monday.
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4 years
Photos from Friday evening's boys basketball contest between Chippewa Falls and Menomonie at Chi-Hi.
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1 year
Joey Schemenauer scored the go-ahead goal in the final minute as the Chippewa Falls/Menomonie girls hockey team knocked off top-ranked Hayward 3-1 Tuesday. Chi-Hi boys hockey also bested Eau Claire North as a part of a busy night.
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