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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The new mobile model is designed to make those experiences more accessible to communities around the state.

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A Wausau attorney found himself watching missiles and drones explode in the night sky over Qatar this month, stranded for nearly two weeks after war erupted less than a day after he and his wife arrived in Doha.

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