Firefighters Andrew Crain and Ryan Hoover try their noodle technique
Kansasville firefighters Andrew Cain, left, and Ryan Hoover, center, try out their technique with a noodle device on Saturday during ice rescue training for area fighters on Eagle Lake in the Town of Dover. SCOTT WILLIAMS
Firefighters in the water for ice rescue training
Firefighters hit the water through openings cut into a frozen Eagle Lake in the Town of Dover for ice rescue training Feb. 27 hosted by Kansasville Fire and Rescue and involving five other neighboring departments. SCOTT WILLIAMS
Instructor Paul Vind leads ice rescue training for firefightes
Instructor Paul Vind, center, explains ice rescue techniques to firefighters Feb. 27 during an all-day training exercise that included six area departments on Eagle Lake in the Town of Dover.
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The plants, in Oak Creek, Wis., near Milwaukee, are coal-fired electrical power stations. Coburn Dukehart/Wisconsin Watch
The state’s largest utility announced this week that it will retire 1,800 megawatts of coal and natural gas generation as part of a $16 billion plan.
Gale Klappa, executive chairman of WEC Energy Group, made the announcement to investors in a conference call on Tuesday. The plan includes the retirement of the 1,100-megawatt South Oak Creek coal plant in southeastern Wisconsin over the next five years. The plant is owned by We Energies, a WEC Energy Group subsidiary.
MOUNT PLEASANT â Last March, Charlie Tennessen, owner of Anarchy Acres, a small farm in the backyard of his home in Mount Pleasant, set out to find the perfect wheat for the perfect pan of pizza.
But thereâs a catch. Tennessen didnât want to grow any âsuperwheat.â He turned to the small grains archive at the United States Department of Agriculture and planted wheat that stood the test of time.
âThey make new wheats today all the time, but if I were to grow one of those wheats, itâs had five years maximum of practice,â Tennessen, 54, said. âIt hasnât seen droughts, hasnât seen rainy years, super cold years.â