Dream Up Lincoln County

01/19/2026

It truly takes a village! Through the Adopt a Provider program, a family child care provider in Tomahawk received much-needed snacks thanks to a local donor who simply saw a flyer, scanned the needs in Lincoln County, and took action. Check out Adopt a Provider by visiting childcaring.org/adoptprovider

💛 One small act. One big impact.

Through the Adopt a Provider program, a family child care provider in Tomahawk received much-needed snacks thanks to a local donor who simply saw a flyer, scanned the needs in Lincoln County, and took action.

What felt simple to the donor made a huge difference for a provider serving local families. The provider felt supported. The donor felt connected. And our community grew stronger because of it.

✨ Thank you to the donor and provider for showing what community care looks like.
👉 Learn how you can make an impact: https://childcaring.org/adoptprovider

12/03/2025

Thank you to everyone who donated for Giving Tuesday! If you're interested in Adopting a Provider in Lincoln or Langlade County, visit www.childcaring.org/adoptprovider

12/02/2025

Donate here! www.3cwi.org/donate

Or visit www.3cwi.org/dreamup to learn more about this program!

11/17/2025

December's meeting will focus on Head Start updates and the next steps in strategic planning: SWOT Analysis.
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We will explore:
What is new with child care in Lincoln County?
What is new with Head Start and other early education programs?
Which areas need the most immediate attention?
What is negatively impacting the current status?
What is positively impacting the current status?
What are the most pressing needs of our current providers? Families?
What can we do to support them?
What's new with Dream Up! Langlade County?
What's new with Adopt a Provider?

Do you have far out ideas to consider? All ideas are welcome!

08/13/2025

A few pics from our Child Care Roundtable with Senator Baldwin! Thank you to everyone who participated and shared testimony. We’ve been working hard on this issue and I’m proud that we had a chance to share our experiences with an elected official. Senator Baldwin is a sponsor of the Child Care for Working Families Act that would bring funding to providers as well as working parents. Thank you Senator Tammy Baldwin for your support of families and listening to us!

08/11/2025

Senator Tammy Baldwin Thank you for supporting child care legislation! Dream Up! Lincoln County are honored to have had the opportunity to represent our communities and share with you our experiences and concerns about child care in rural Wisconsin.

Everywhere I go, I hear from families who are either paying an arm and a leg for child care or simply can’t afford it.

It was great to be in Tomahawk to chat with folks about what the path forward is to lower costs and expand access to good child care. We have to do better.

08/05/2025

Tonight! Come visit us!

⭐ THANK YOU Event Sponsors! ⭐
Crossbridge, WJJQ & Park City will also have booths, make sure to stop and say hi!

07/16/2025

Donate using our new Adopt A Provider program. Here's how:
🧡 Choose a need from the list at Childcaring.org/AdoptProvider
💚 Connect with the provider.
💙 Contribute to their success.

Running a child care center means countless little hands, surfaces, and bums to keep clean. Your donation of necessities, like wipes, makes a real, practical difference AND helps keep the cost of care down for families.

Donate using our new Adopt A Provider program. Here's how:
🧡 Choose a need from the list at Childcaring.org/AdoptProvider
💚 Connect with the provider.
💙 Contribute to their success.

👉 Know all listed needs are from local child care providers that are either licensed, certified, or exempt/monitored.

⭐️ Give today.
Questions? Don’t hesitate to reach out. Call Childcaring at 715-841-9490, email [email protected], or send this page a DM.

07/11/2025

Here's a snapshot of the child care landscape in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. We have 11 Full-time/All year providers. Only 8 of them offer infant care. A recent study that surveyed Wisconsin providers found that 1 in 4 providers would close their doors with the end of the Child Care Counts program last month. In Lincoln County, upwards of 60% of providers would have to close. *Funding for child care providers was included in the Wisconsin budget agreement that will directly help providers through 2026. It is unclear when that program will start and what it will look like for providers.

07/07/2025

On the morning of April 28th, WJJQ suffered a significant lightning strike at the station that caused considerable damage to various pieces of equipment, both on the ground and on our tower.

UPDATE: Due to changing weather conditions for Tuesday, we anticipate tower work will now take place on Wednesday, July 9th. We will continue to keep you updated on this.

As a reminder, our WJJQ tower crew will be doing some major repairs to our tower antenna system.

When this happens, this will cause the need to be off our “over the air” 92.5 FM, 810 AM and 97.7 FM frequencies. We do want to remind you that we will continue our broadcast on our WJJQ live stream available at WJJQ.com, via your computer, mobile device, and smart speakers.

We apologize for this inconvenience to our listeners. We will continue to update you on the time schedule and signal availability.

We would like to thank you for your understanding and patience during this disruption. Remember to listen online at wjjq.com and on your mobile device, or smart speaker.
https://www.wjjq.com/pg/livestreamapps

07/07/2025

Catch free live music every Wednesday in July, 6–8pm at Veteran’s Memorial Park 🎸🌅

🎤 July 2 – Hip Pocket
🎵 July 9 – The Tamaracks
🎶 July 16 – The Cougar’s
🎼 July 23 – Jerry Schmitt Band

Bring a chair, grab some snacks, and enjoy summer nights the Lincoln County way! ☀️🎤🪕

📍101 E River St, Tomahawk, WI 54487