The Chetek Alert is a weekly newspaper published in Chetek, Wisconsin, a city of 2,000 residents located in southeastern Barron County, which has a total county population of 43,308. The Alert has ...

The Hay River Quilters are hosting a quilt show in Prairie Farm this weekend. The quilters will be celebrating their 27th ...

Chetek’s Fishy Four Run/Walk returns for its 37th anniversary at the 2025 Liberty Fest celebration. Although preregistration for this year’s event is over, participants looking to help break the ...

The Hay River Quilters are hosting a quilt show in Prairie Farm this weekend. The quilters will be celebrating their 27th Quilts Along the River show at its new venue in Prairie Farm during the ...

The Pioneer Village Museum in Cameron has been dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of Northwestern Wisconsin ...

The next project of the Chetek Public Arts League has begun on the north-facing wall of the Edgewood Bakeshop in downtown ...

Belinda Gibson and Danielle Motzer, pictured above, opened Taco Therapy inside the Elite Market on Tuesdays. Taco Therapy is ...

For the sixth time in the event’s history, more than 1,000 people participated in the annual Fishy Four Run/Walk. The 37th ...

Sunset View Golf Course, where once again, the event yielded a full field ...

This week’s second winner of Chetek’s 2025 Catch-and-Release Fishing Photo Contest is Adan Chiu from Oglesby, Illinois, who ...

B&B/ Watertight took home the title in the 50th Annual Gary Haugen Liberty Fest Softball Tournament. B&B/ Watertight defeated ...

Panfishing paid off for longtime visitor of Chetek, Rich Case (right) on Tuesday, July 1, as he landed the first $500 panfish ...