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Big Bull Falls Blues Fest Lineup Announced »

by Dino Corvino on March 8th, 2010

From the Wausau Area Events Page.

Friday, August 20th
Robert Allen, Jr. 5pm
Johnny & the Mo-Tones 7pm
Big James & the Chicago Playboys 9pm

Saturday, Aug 21st
The Jimmy’s 1pm
John Primer 3pm
Harper 5pm
Ruthie Foster 7pm
Bobby Rush 9pm

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Wausau Area Events announces New Director »

by Dino Corvino on January 28th, 2010

Today WAE announced that Kari Rasmussen has accepted the position of Director of Wausau Area Events.  Kari has been the Events Coordinator for roughly three years, and during that time the prominent events in the community have all seen growth and improvement.

I have known Kari for over a decade, and I think she is a great choice.  The naming of someone so familiar to both the community, and to the events, is a wise choice.

In a press release Terry Sturm, the President of Wausau Area Events, said: “We are certainly pleased to have someone of Ms. Rasmussen’s capabilities and talents helping to continue the Wausau Area Events tradition of bringing top-notch entertainment options to the Wausau area.  Her familiarity with the organization and the events themselves will make for a very seamless transition as we enter into the 2010 event season. “

Congrats, Kari.  We wish you well.  Knock ‘em dead!

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Two Point Oh! »

by Citizen Wausau on September 14th, 2009

After what seems like years of hard work and a final push over a busy weekend, the Citizen Wausau of old has been taken out back sent to live on a nice farm upstate to make way for a new site that is bigger (sorry), badder (in a good way), and bolder (slightly?).

We hope you’ll take a few moments to browse around and explore, but before you do, we have a very important favor to ask of our existing members. As you may have noticed, this new iteration of the site offers features that we could only have dreamed about when we launched two years ago. But to use the newly-added social networking options, you’ll need to login to your profile. Once you’re logged in, use the My Profile link, go to Profile » Edit Profile and fill in the Name field.

While you’re there, feel free to add any other profile information or add an avatar, but the Name field MUST be filled out for your account to work properly. We apologize for this hiccup, but there doesn’t seem to be any way around it.

Thank you again for your support, interest, and patience as we work out the kinks in this new design, and as always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!

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We are Going Down »

by Citizen Wausau on September 9th, 2009

Citizen Wausau launched in October of 2007, and while we’re not a household name, we feel that we’ve managed to make at least somewhat of a mark on the community. We’ve had some good times, but now that we’re nearing our second anniversary, the consensus is that it’s finally time to take the site down….and replace it with a new one.

That’s right! We’ve got a shiny new version of Citizen Wausau that we’re just itching to unleash. Of course, no site (re-)launch is without its hassles, and so we ask of you, the reader, to bear with us during what will probably be about a week (or less) of downtime as we put the old site out to pasture and get the kinks worked out of the fancy-schmancy new one.

After we return, please bear with us through what will hopefully be a mercifully short beta period while we get all the kinks worked out that we missed until people actually started using the site.We don’t have an exact schedule, but expect the site to begin its hibernation sometime on Friday.

We’ll be sure to Twitter away when it’s back. And if you’re following us in RSS, you’ll see a post when we return.

Thanks for all your support so far, and we can hardly wait for all of you to check out the new digs!

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New Director of Development named under Difficult Circumstances »

by Dino Corvino on April 17th, 2009

Today Ann Werth was named to the City of Wausau’s Director of Development position.  I am glad someone has been named to fill this position given the trauma that surrounded it with the departures of Mike Morrissey, Kristen Fish and Bill Nagle.

This pick comes hot on the heels of the mayor and a strange set of circumstances.

First, the Fillmor is defaulting on its mortgage.  Clearly this is a high visibility property in downtown Wausau, and Ann Werth was quoted in the story saying the city is possibly going to lose the money it invested. This attaches her face to this story, regardless of the truth of it.

Secondly, the mayor refused to release the names and resumes of the other applicants, in what the WDH called a clear violation of open records laws, and what I called a violation of the core value of transparency the city had seemed to trumpet, but not lived up to. This created speculation regarding the hiring choice and the competitive qualifications of other applicants.

Finally, depositions in the Van De Yacht matter have been rumored to have taken place.

So, I wish Ann Werth well in her new position.  She is a long time city employee and a downtown favorite, so it seems like this will be a good fit.  We feel it is shame that Mayor Tipple has created such a firestorm to place Ann into on her first week of work.

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Announcing: Citizen Wausau Loves »

by Andy Laub on December 4th, 2008

Citizen Wausau is proud to announce Citizen Wausau Loves…, a collection of items that we at CW can’t get enough of. CW♥ is a partnership with Amazon.com, which means that purchases are still through Amazon directly, but Citizen Wausau will receive a tiny bit of each purchase. It’s an easy way to help keep us going, all by doing what you were already doing!

And even if you don’t see anything there that interests you, you can use this link to shop on the main Amazon.com site while still using our referral code.

Thanks, and happy shopping!

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