Washburn County

MAQA (Meat and Qulaity Assurance) Training will be held on March 10, 2012 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Spooner. Registration opens at 8:30 a.m. Training is from 9 – 11 a.m. Please call the Extension Office at 715-635-4444 to register.

Madison, Wis. – Cooperative Extension’s first agent, E.L. Luther, hired in 1912 in Oneida County, made farm visits using a two-cylinder motorbike. One hundred years later, both modes of transportation and Cooperative Extension programming have changed, but one important point remains the same. Cooperative Extension educators continue to serve as a portal to educational resources [...]

The Washburn County Board of Supervisors invites youth in grades 9, 10, and 11 who are residents of Washburn County to apply to serve as youth representatives on the County Board.  This initiative provides Washburn County youth an opportunity to play a valuable and active leadership role in the governance of the county while enhancing [...]

A one-day leadership workshop will be offered on March 1, 2012 for Leadership Washburn County alumni, session planners and board members.  Topics were chosen with input from LWC anniversary celebration attendees this past October.  The workshop will be held at the Heartwood Conference Center beginning at 8:30 a.m. and ending at 4:00 p.m. and includes [...]

Washburn County is one of 72 counties in the State of Wisconsin and one of the approximately 3,141 counties and county equivalents in the United States.  In comparison to all of the counties in the U.S., median age is old.  Per capita income is average, as is average earnings per job.  Government’s share of total [...]

The population of Washburn County actually decreased from 16,035 in Census 2000 to 15,911 in Census 2010.  That is a decrease of 124 people.  Since 1990, Washburn County’s population increase has been entirely due to in-migration as deaths actually outnumbered births.  Now it appears that deaths are outnumbering both births and in-migration.

When I Grow Up I Want To Be… When you were a child, what was your dream profession? What did you want to be when you grew up? The list of popular dream professions is long and diverse, including doctor, astronaut, police officer, scientist, rock star, actor, fireman, clergy, teacher, nurse, artist, lawyer, paramedic, dancer, athlete…the [...]