Employed: Recent Episodes
WXPR Public Radio
Employed is a WXPR weekly reporting series focused on how the landscape of living, playing, and working in the Northwoods is changing.
Last October, the end of the school year seemed a long way off for Rhinelander mother Leanne Vigue Miranda.
Last week, Diane Dodge closed her doors for the last time as the owner of Diane’s Frame Shoppe in downtown Rhinelander.
Full hides of brown and black leather are draped over a cart and wheeled by a worker from place to place in the maze-like Weinbrenner Shoe Company factory in Merrill.
Hans Breitenmoser Jr.’s mother and father came to northern Wisconsin as Swiss immigrants, searching for the American Dream.
Visitors to the shop floor at AirPro Fan in Rhinelander are greeted by a wall of sound and activity.
Walk into any restaurant in downtown Minocqua or Eagle River, and chances are it’s understaffed.
On Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips.
Laura Boll, her husband, and their two young children thought the Northwoods would provide them a brief refuge.
On Tuesday afternoon, Matt Ellingson walked out of the Kwik Trip on Rhinelander’s east side with a few bottles of water and a snack from the store’s roller grill.
Realtor Lisa Alsteen shows off the features of a century-old four-bedroom house near the courthouse in Rhinelander.
On Wednesday afternoon, Zach Suchomel strategized with his four teammates in advance of a match of Smite, an online battle arena game.
On Tuesday morning, Brendan Tuckey was putting the finishing touches on a germination incubator he built at his farm in Sugar Camp.
It was 1957, and Rhinelander’s Leona Forth laid eyes on Marv Schumacher for the first time.
The words “Mellen State Bank” are etched into the sandstone façade over which Jeff Peters ran his right hand on Tuesday.