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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to award up to $200 million in competitive grants that will fund new employment and training programs intended to help low-income individuals and families find jobs and increase their earnings. The grant recipients are scheduled to be announced in February of 2015.

A fire Wednesday night at Seester’s Mexican Cantina in downtown Pewaukee caused fire, smoke and water damage that will keep the restaurant closed for at least a couple of weeks.

Wisconsin cranberry growers set another record in 2013, producing just over 6 million barrels of cranberries, which accounted for 67 percent of the country’s cranberries.

Tom Cardella, president and beer merchant at MillerCoors’ craft arm, Tenth and Blake Beer Co., plans to retire at the end of the year.

As American consumers continue to become more informed about the food they eat, more are turning to organic products, and stores, restaurants and food producers are responding to meet the demand.

As American consumers continue to become more informed about the food they eat, more are turning to organic products, and stores, restaurants and food producers are responding to meet the demand.

Stark Bro’s Nurseries, the nation’s largest direct-to-consumer grower of fruit and nut trees, today presented Milwaukee-based Growing Power Inc. with a donation of nursery stock to help urban communities grow their own sustainable food sources.

Von Rothenburg Bier Stube will hold a three-day celebration beginning Friday for the opening of its Biergarten.

Southeastern Wisconsin’s ethnic food scene will welcome a Himalayan flavor this summer with the opening of The Cheel in downtown Thiensville on July 19.

Milwaukee County Parks, in partnership with Glendale-based Sprecher Brewing Co., is introducing a “Traveling Beer Garden” this summer.