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Sep 24, 2025, 7:38 AM CST

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RICHLAND CENTER, WIS (CIVIC MEDIA) – Wednesday’s Newsletter.

Clean Sweep event in Baraboo, update from the Riverdale School District.
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Clean Sweep event in Baraboo this weekend

SAUK COUNTY, WIS (CIVIC MEDIA) – Sauk County will hold a hazardous waste Clean Sweep event Saturday, September 27, from 8:00 to Noon, at the former Sauk County landfill in Baraboo. Clean Sweep is an opportunity for homeowners, agricultural enterprises, and businesses to dispose of hazardous products and items that pose an environmental risk, such […]

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Head over to our MORNING SHOW page to listen to the latest Morning Show with Phil Nee. Every weekday Phil Nee brings us a conversation with someone from the community that will teach us all a little something and usually make us laugh along the way.

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Riverdale School District

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The Morning Show on September 23 featured an update from the Riverdale School District. Some of the school staff joined Phil on the program.

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Water main flushing underway this week
RICHLAND CENTER, WIS (WRCO / WRCE) – A reminder that City Utilities of Richland Center Water Department will be doing Water main flushing today (Monday) through Friday (September 26) and Monday, September 29 through Friday, October 3. Flushing, this year, will not take place during overnight hours. Instead flushing will start in the morning at […]

Festivities galore at the Ithaca School Fair and Homecoming
ITHACA, Wis. (WRCO / WRCE) – The Ithaca School Fair and Homecoming is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 4 at Ithaca School. Ithaca School Fair Information. The Ithaca School Fair will be held Saturday, Oct. 4. To enter exhibits in the fair, go to: https://www.fairentry.com/Fair/SignIn/22726 Please enter by September 30. New this year: Youth (juniors) can […]

New Documentary Shares Japan’s Surprising Passion for the Packers
You heard it first on The Todd Allbaugh Show: “No Packers, No Life” is a feel-good film about Japanese Packers superfans and premieres statewide October 17

ADRC of Eagle Country offers Boost Your Brain & Memory classes
SOUTHWEST, WIS (CIVIC MEDIA) – The Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of Eagle Country is offering a series of adult education classes on ways to “Boost Your Brain & Memory.”   ADRC’s “Boost Your Brain & Memory” series offers a unique, whole-person approach to brain fitness. Mather LifeWays Institute on Aging created the evidence-based […]
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Newsletter Editor, Adam D. Hess

Adam D. Hess was born and raised in the area and strives to bring you news and information reflecting OUR Southwest Wisconsin values! Adam can be heard on the air EVERY Saturday from 5 to 10 AM with the Weekend Wake-up, including Prime Mover at 8:30a.

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Simo every Saturday

RICHLAND CENTER, Wis (WRCO) – Spend your Saturday afternoons in music class! Saturdays With Simo, with your host Chris Simonson, will take you back to the fifties, sixties, and seventies. WRCO played all of those songs when they were brand new 45’s! Chris Simonson is a former very successful high school band director. He will […]

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Bulldog Block Challenge

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The second part of the Morning Show on August 28 featured the Ithaca Foundation as they talked with Phil Nee about the 2025 Bulldog Block Challenge.

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Adam Hess
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Adam Hess has been involved in radio broadcasting since 1990, with many of those years spent on the air at WRCO FM in Richland Center. Currently, Adam hosts the Weekend Wake-up and Prime Mover Saturdays on WRCO FM, jumps in and helps out with news duties, handles Social Media duties for WRCO and WRCE, and is the Director of Technology at a Southwest Wisconsin School District. Reach him at adam.hess@civicmedia.us.

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