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 ...

Chetek’s new water tower is looking brighter after its first coat of white paint. Painters arrived on Tuesday, May 27 to ...

Barron County Sheriff’s Department Patrol Captain Darren Hodek spoke to the County Board about his candidacy for sheriff on ...

At long last, construction on Chetek’s Sports Complex is underway. Peak Excavating arrived at Gotham Pioneer Park to break ...

A month-long investigation by members of the Barron County Sheriff’s Department and the Rice Lake office of the Wisconsin ...

A 59-year-old Chetek man now being held on $10,000 cash bond is scheduled to be arraigned June 20, 2025, following a ...

William Peters, a 2020 graduate of Chetek Weyerhaeuser High School, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in ...

Molly Pederstuen shared a photo with The Chetek Alert of her neighbors recently completed veterans memorial. Jim and Janet ...

Several 1-pound bluegills were registered as boatloads of bluegill anglers battled for the biggest bluegill in the Chetek ...

A blood drive will take place at St. Peter Church in Cameron on June 9 from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. Appointments can be made at or by calling ...

The Taste of Chetek event is the place to be on the first Monday of June. Attendees get to try a little bit of everything the Chetek area has to ...