Christina Lorey

1 week ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Christina Lorey

Wisconsin’s Greg Gard has one of the BEST underdog stories in college sports:🚜 He grew up on a hog farm in the tiny town of Cobb, Wisconsin (population: 480). 🏀 He met future Hall of Fame coach Bo Ryan at an 8th grade basketball camp. ❤️ When his own athletic career wasn’t panning out, he volunteered for Ryan at that same summer camp in college. Ryan eventually hired him, and the two began a 23 year coaching partnership, which took them to three schools and earned them multiple titles.

1 week ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Christina Lorey

For the first time ever, Green Bay will host not just the draft, but any major, league-wide event. Since moving out of New York in 2015, the NFL Draft –exploding from essentially a giant conference call into a three-day destination event. Over the past decade, the league has awarded the draft to various NFL teams’ home cities.

2 weeks ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Christina Lorey

Yes, the Wisconsin-founded chain has given to Republicans, but it’s also supported Democrats — and never Donald Trump. Campaign contributions are public record — and Craig Culver has a decades-long history of supporting BOTH political parties ⤵️While he’s given to Republican Governors Scott Walker and Tommy Thompson — he’s also donated to Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Democratic Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle.

2 weeks ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Christina Lorey

Wisconsin is filled with beer & cheese lovers. But a pair of Columbus sisters are committed to putting another kind of dairy on the map: artisan butter. “Everybody wants Wisconsin butter,” Jennifer Orchard said. Jennifer is a seventh-generation dairy farmer who co-owns Royal Guernsey Creamery with her sister, Julie. “Our butter is strictly the cream from cows and salt. It’s just two ingredients,” she explained. While their family farm dates back to 1943, the sisters only started making butter in 2016.

2 weeks ago | upnorthnewswi.com | Christina Lorey

The aurora borealis, aka Northern Lights, is usually visible in Alaska, Canada, and Scandinavian countries like Greenland. But there’s good news: The show in the sky is expected to be especially active this summer, and Wisconsin is one of a dozen US states where you can see it. ✨ What are the Northern Lights? The aurora borealis produces neon green waves in the night sky when electrons from space collide with atoms and molecules of the upper atmosphere of Earth, according to NASA.