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 ...

Chetek’s brand new, state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant is officially up and running. The city invited the public for ...

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

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

The Chetek-Weyerhaeuser track and field teams competed in the Heart O’North Conference Meet at Cameron on Thursday, May 22, ...

Fifty-eight seniors with the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser High School Class of 2025 officially graduated on Saturday afternoon, May 24 ...

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

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

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

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