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USA TODAY NETWORK – Wisconsin | Sheboygan typeELKHART LAKE – The Midwest Acoustic Music Festival, now in its 13th year, returns for a day of free, live music.The festival will be held from 11am to 11pm on Saturday, July 29, at Lake Street Café, 21 South Lake St. in Elkhart Lake.The Midwest Acoustic Music Festival was founded in 2005 to bring attention to emerging acoustic artists and provide a venue to celebrate and promote emerging talent. The full line-up for the 13th annual Midwest Acoustic Music Festival is as follows:10 p.m. – The last call: The Last Call stars Owen…

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CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky. (August 18, 2021) — Thomas More University announced today that following a successful on-site visit in June 2021, the University has been unanimously approved for provisional membership in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference, a Division II conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). “As a key strategic initiative in the University's Lighting the Way strategic plan, we have spent most of the past year evaluating this opportunity as we want to ensure our student-athletes have the best experience while strengthening the University's regional position. The decision to join the Great Midwest and apply for NCAA DII…

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Half a dozen Gouldian finches greet patients with their chirps from a cage in the waiting room of the Boone Health Primary Care Clinic in Mexico, Missouri. The birds belong to Dr. Peggy Barjenbruch, who along with Dr. Michael Quinlan, has served the Mexican community for decades.That looked like it might end last fall when the hospital they were affiliated with, Audrain Community Hospital, suddenly closed.Audrain Community Hospital has been a community fixture since its founding in the 1980s, but in September it joined a growing list of rural hospital closings. More than 130 rural hospitals in the US have…

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News Upper Midwest Growers See Changing Weed Spectrum Farmers in the Upper Midwest are seeing a changing spectrum of weeds. Steve Snyder with Corteva Agriscience says growers in the Dakotas and western Minnesota are starting to do more than velvetleaf, lamb's quarters and waterhemp. “Now they're starting to get guts. Go a little further west to the Missouri River and central and east-central Dakota, they've always struggled with guts, but now they're starting to get hemp. So if they've used some of the same programs that they have in the past, it's a challenge when you have those two weeds,…

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Business Insider readers think the University of Chicago is the No. 1 school in its region. Facebook/Uchiago We recently published our list of the 50 best colleges in America. Many of the top schools — such as MIT (No. 1), Stanford (No. 2), and Harvard (No. 3) — appear on the east or west coasts of the United States, but there are plenty of incredible schools in America's heartland : the Midwest.To create this list, we asked readers to select the colleges that best prepare students for success after graduation from a list of the nation's 100 best schools.We combined…

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KANSAS CITY — Hot temperatures, stifling humidity and the pungent smell of rotting vegetation sound more like a trip to a rainforest jungle, but those were the conditions experienced by some of the 100 or so scouts who participated in the recent Pro Farmer Midwest crop tour.Split into two groups, half of the scouts began their journey in Sioux Falls, SD, on August 21, while the other half hail from Dublin, Ohio. Over the next four days, the scouts split into several vehicles and set off on various predetermined routes. Covering about 70% of the U.S. corn belt, the scouts…

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“Oh my god, this is so cute!”Robin Li, an investor at San Francisco venture capital firm GGV Capital, was standing in the lobby of the Madison building in downtown Detroit. Built in 1917 as a theater and renovated several years ago as a tech co-working space, Madison checks all the aesthetic boxes of hipsterdom: reclaimed wood, exposed brick walls, coffee served by tattooed baristas.”This is nicer than San Francisco,” Ms. Lee concluded.Last month, I accompanied Ms. Li and about a dozen other venture capitalists on a three-day bus trip through the Midwest, with stops in Youngstown and Akron, Ohio. Detroit…

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Three exhibits connect Barbara Aubin to Chicago, the women's art worldAmanda Gray | South Bend TribuneELKHART — Most people don't know the name Barbara Aubin.But she is an important Chicago artist who made a name for herself as both a feminist and a teacher before her death in 2014 at age 86, says Museum of American Art Midwest curator Brian Byrn. Her work is on display in the exhibition 'Barbara Aubin: Hidden Secrets', until February 26, accompanied by two other exhibitions, 'Works on Paper by Chicago Imagists' and 'Works by Important Woman Artists of the 20th Century', to give the…

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It was supposed to be a milestone achievement for Dan McLaughlin, his silver anniversary season behind the microphone to do Cardinals television play-by-play. Dan McLaughlin looks in the broadcast booth before a game between the Cardinals and the Red Sox on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, at Busch Stadium. Photo after shipment But 2023 won't be his 25th year in that role, what would be his 26th season overall working Cards telecasts at what is now Bally Sports Midwest.McLaughlin, who was arrested Dec. 4 on a third DUI charge — a felony charge as a “persistent” offender — is leaving by…

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History of Criminal Investigation at Midwest AcademyMidwest Academy and the criminal shadow over boarding schools nationwide.KEOOKUK, Ia. — A jury in southeast Iowa on Friday found a former boarding school principal guilty of abusing students, days after he tearfully testified that he had not harmed any children.The jury found Benjamin Trane guilty of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of a child by a counselor and child endangerment, according to the Burlington Hawk Eye. The jury found Trane not guilty of a more serious charge, third-degree sexual assault, which could have carried a 10-year prison sentence.The jury…

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