🌱 At Crex Meadows, cranes find a way through drought

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• At Crex Meadows, cranes find a way through drought

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Cooler; a stray a.m. shower, with a high of 50 and low of 31 degrees.
• Thursday: Partial sunshine, temps: high: 41, low: 24.
• Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 38 and low of 24 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Wisconsin's sandhill cranes thrive despite summer drought (gazettextra.com) — Thousands of sandhill cranes gathered near Grantsburg despite drought that dried some familiar roosting spots at Crex Meadows. An annual survey counted 10,438 cranes across Crex and nearby Fish Lake Wildlife Area, within normal expectations. The birds found deeper water, and recent rains have helped transform the wetlands again.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Grantsburg

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Thursday November 12

• GMS Fall Band & Choir Concert
  Grantsburg High School Auditorium
  7:00 pm

Friday November 13

• Girls Wrestling: MS Girls Wrestling Invite (Middle School)
  Saint Croix Falls High School High School Gym
  5:00 pm
• Boys Basketball: Shell Lake vs Grantsburg (Middle School)
  Grantsburg Middle School Middle School Gymnasium
  5:00 pm
• Girls Basketball: Girls Basketball Scrimmage JV (Junior Varsity)
  Rice Lake High School Ole Gym
  5:30 pm
• Girls Basketball: Girls Basketball Scrimmage (Varsity)
  Rice Lake High School Ole Gym
  5:30 pm

Tuesday November 17

• Boys Basketball: Grantsburg vs Luck (Middle School)
  Luck High School Main Gym
  4:30 pm

Thursday November 19

• Historical Society - LC
  Grantsburg Public Library, 415 South Robert Street, Grantsburg
  1:00 pm
• Girls Wrestling: SCC MS Girls Wrestling Meet (Middle School)
  Saint Croix Central Middle School MS Large Gym
  4:30 pm
• Boys Basketball: Prairie Farm / Clayton vs Grantsburg (Middle Schoo
  Grantsburg Middle School Middle School Gymnasium
  5:00 pm
• Girls Basketball: Northwestern vs Grantsburg (Junior Varsity)
  Grantsburg High School High School Gymnasium
  5:45 pm
• Girls Basketball: Northwestern vs Grantsburg (Varsity)
  Grantsburg High School High School Gymnasium
  7:15 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday November 12

• Natural Resources Committee Meeting →
  Burnett County Government Center, Room 165, Siren
  9:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• With the 9-day gun deer season opening in just a few weeks, we're reminding hunters about the availability to test their deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
  The DNR is especially interested in samples from the CWD sampling priority areas, but hunters anywhere in Wisconsin can submit a sample from their… (Nextdoor )

• McNally Industries posted a job opening for CNC Machinist in Grantsburg. Apply here.
• Parker Hannifin Corp. posted a job opening for Assembler - Manufacturing in Grantsburg. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Grantsburg here.

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🗞 Nearby News

St. Croix Falls

• Wendell Viebrock (leadericcpa.com)

Amery

• Sheryl Lynn Mortensen (leadericcpa.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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