The STEM Shuttle, created by retired Wausau teacher Sharon Ryan, is marking its 20th year traveling to schools across Wisconsin. The program grew out of Dream Flight Wausau, a 1990 project Ryan developed while teaching at John Marshall Elementary School in the Wausau School District.

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This year’s musicians include Michael Andrews on cello, Anna Cromwell on violin and viola, Rochelle Pearson on violin and Angela Kratchmer on viola. Pianist Rie Tanaka will join the ensemble for the festival’s second week.

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Dinga said he has found friendship, love and community in central Wisconsin, even as he continues to wrestle with what it means to truly belong.

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For families, Medo said, the larger hope is that adults with intellectual disabilities are able to make more of their own choices — where they live, who they live near, how they spend their time and how they participate in the community around them.

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“You get on the racetrack and it’s just you and whatever you’re riding, whether it’s a quad or a motorcycle, and you try to find the limits within your capabilities,” Bell said.

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The Wisconsin Persian Gulf Tribute honors all branches of the U.S. military who served through multiple conflicts in the Greater Middle East and during the Global War on Terrorism. Its design is built around the image of a bootprint, a symbol chosen to represent both the impression service members left behind and the idea of walking with veterans rather than past them.

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“Remember when you were a kid and you first rode on a bicycle, it felt like you could fly?vWhen people are sitting on these comfortable couches in the front of the machine, they can get that feeling back.”

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The Granite Belt is a developing gravel cycling network of roughly 900 miles across Marathon, Lincoln, Langlade and Shawano counties, with Wausau positioned as the central base camp.

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Executive Director Sean Wright said the goal is not to remake The Grand into something unrecognizable but to restore and enhance a historic theater that has served north-central Wisconsin for decades.

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To outsiders, the whole thing can sound a little absurd — a radio contest that becomes a citywide endurance test. In central Wisconsin, that is part of the appeal.

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