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In the nearly two years we’ve spent covering the environment for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, we’ve gotten up close and personal with Wisconsin’s major bodies of water. An early-morning run along the icy shore of Lake Superior, a boat ride through the back channels of the Mississippi River, paddling out into Lake Michigan – these experiences have done more than just inform our reporting for specific stories. They’ve shown how deeply water affects and connects us. Wisconsin is a water-rich state, from its borders to the myriad of lakes, rivers...
Earth Day event celebrates ‘what we can do together’ in NE Portland
Nikkie West’s favorite part of the Leaven Community Earth Day Everyday celebration was how much was happening all around her.
“There’s so much going on,” she said from her table under a pop-up tent in the Leaven Community Center parking lot. Behind her, neighbors and event-goers in spring clothing browsed over a hundred potted native plants that Sparrowhawk was selling Saturday.