Click here to play audio. On this week's news, you'll find coverage of the ribbon cutting for the new Gays Mills Community Center, an update of on the proposed Viroqua public library project, a story on the potential sharp increase in the use of the herbicide 2,4-D, and Marcia Halligan's Peace Calendar.

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This week's WDRT News features local residents, Kathy Crittenden and Kelvin Rodolfo, talking about their recent trip to Cuba; also, listen to Peter Hodapp and John Tully talk about their recent discovery at The Vernon County Historical Society. Marcia Halligan delivers this week's Peace Calendar and Jim Hallberg reports on the Vernon County Board's decision to vote down a comprehensive plan.

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This week's WDRT Local News features (click here to play) : a story about Valley Stewardship Network's Kickapoo River Watershed Assessment, a report on progress in the regional energy independence movement, the final episode of Jon Passi's series on the Electric Vehicle, and a profile of abolitionist leader Fredrick Douglass on Peace Calendar.

In 2011, Charles and Karen Bolstad of rural Viroqua received the Century Farm Award at the Wisconsin State Fair. In this audio file, they talk with WDRT reporter, Charlie Knower, about this award and the joys and tribulations of living on a farm in the Driftless Region. Learn about how their family immigrated from Norway over 100 years ago; what life was like then and what life is like now.

WDRT reporter Bill Motlong follows Jillian Varney on a day of beet harvesting at Small Family Farm CSA. She and others describe the joys and challenges of working on the farm in this story (MP3 file) from a recent local newscast.

WDRT news team member Gil Hoel attended the 9th annual Kickapoo Valley Reserve's Dam Challenge on October 1st. Listen to his report, including interviews with participants, here (MP3 file).

Learn more about the annual Dam Challenge here.