Wisconsin wildlife officials say they can help your kids beat cabin fever. The cure: ice fishing lessons.

The Department of Natural Resources plans to hold its 19th annual children's ice fishing clinics on park ponds and lagoons around Milwaukee and Waukesha counties on Saturday, Feb. 6. Agency officials say the clinics are a great way to introduce youths to the sport.

The clinics are free. Kids learn about ice safety and fishing techniques. Equipment and snacks will be provided.

Each clinic starts on the hour and lasts about 45 minutes. Classroom instruction will take place regardless of the weather and ice conditions.

Clinic locations are available at http://www.dnr.wi.gov/news/BreakingNews_Lookup.asp?id=1558

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University of Wisconsin-Madison students battle in a campus-wide snowball fight on Bascom Hil December 9, 2009 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Andy Manis/Getty Images) #

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The Eagle River Business Association (ERBA) will sponsor its annual parade with Santa Claus and his reindeer Saturday, Nov. 28, beginning at 1 p.m. in the parking lot across the street from The Christmas House on Wall Street.

A new addition to this year’s parade will be ice shanties decorated for Christmas. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place.

Parade participants may wear costumes and holiday hats and may create Christmas banners or signs.

Participants will walk to the Eagle River Depot Museum, located in the old train depot, where children will be able to share their Christmas wish list with Santa from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Milk and cookies will be available and the staff from Rocking W Stables will provide free sleigh rides in conjunction with visits with Santa Claus.

Businesses in downtown Eagle River will have expanded hours and sales for Christmas shoppers.

For more information or to register an ice shanty for the parade, contact Katie Hayes at (715) 891-4929 or Michelle Rubo at 891-5423.

A thump on a young woman's head wasn't caused by a snowball but by a can of Milwaukee's Best beer, tossed or dropped from above during the snowstorm early Wednesday morning.

Madison police said the 21-year-old Madison woman needed stitches to close the head wound following the incident at about 2:40 a.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of West Johnson Street.

The woman and her boyfriend were crossing the street when she was suddenly struck in the head.

"Her boyfriend thought someone had tossed a snowball but quickly discovered it was a full can of Milwaukee's Best beer that had collided with her head," said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

The can of beer split open when it hit the ground.

"It could not be determined where the can of beer came from," DeSpain said. "It appeared to have come from above and may have been dropped or thrown from a nearby building."

GREENFIELD - The recent snowfall has exposed a problem with new energy efficient stoplights in some communities.

The LED were installed as a way to help save money on energy costs, but the lights are so efficient that they aren't generating enough heat to melt snow and ice on the traffic lights.

As a result, drivers can't tell what color the light is or if it is even on.

The problem is further exasperated in Greenfield because the stoplights have fin-like grates, which are meant to direct the LED light beam, and snow tends to get stuck in them.

Crews then have to go in and individually remove the snow and ice from the lights.

...But Wednesday was the first time that classes were canceled since 1990, when Donna Shalala, who was chancellor at the time, shut them down at 10:30 a.m. because 17 inches of snow had fallen over a 16-hour period.

“Students began lobbying the Chancellor Biddy Martin last night on Twitter and then began thanking her on Twitter, too,” Mr. Lucas said.

According to one of the university’s student newspapers, The Badger Herald, students began celebrating Tuesday night with snowball fights. Lindsay Shaw, a junior, said she was “overwhelmed with joy” at the announcement, telling the newspaper: “I’m just looking at this as a mental health day.”