10/27/2025

BESSEMER - Bessemer’s Winter Parking Ban goes in effect on Saturday.  From Saturday until April 15^th No parking will be allowed on Bessemer city streets or roads from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m.  Violators may be ticketed and towed at their own expense

10/27/2025

MINOCQUA - The Minocqua Town Board unanimously rejected Kirk Bangstad’s administrative review permit (ARP) for Minocqua Brewing Company at its meeting on the 21st due to unpermitted outdoor seating. The board, noting Bangstad’s absence and history of permit violations, required the application to be resubmitted as a conditional use permit or CUP. Oneida County planning director Karl Jennrich, despite initially considering it an ARP, advised processing it as a CUP for the proposed “Elizabeth’s Art Garden” outdoor feature. Concerns were raised about parking waivers and Bangstad’s outstanding fines. The motion to reject the ARP passed unanimously.

10/27/2025

UPPER MICHIGAN - The national nursing shortage is hitting Michigan hard – and one organization is expanding its search globally to help health care facilities fill the gap.

 A Michigan Health and Hospital Association survey shows about 47-hundred nursing vacancies, and a 2023 University of Michigan report found nearly four in ten nurses said they were planning to leave within a year. Worldwide Health Staff Solutions Chief Nursing Officer Laura Messineo has worked in the field for 34 years. She says nursing schools, already struggling with faculty shortages, can’t train replacements fast enough.

                    0:15  "There have also been many new roles that have been developed outside of the traditional brick-and-mortar hospital settings that are drawing nurses out of the acute-care setting, and more so into the 'spa' realm."

She says recent graduates may not have the critical thinking skills of more experienced nurses. And with the gap growing faster than schools can respond, more health care systems are recruiting overseas.