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Wisconsin Goodwill finds WWII hand grenade in Duluth donation box
ASHLAND, Wis. — A live hand grenade was discovered by True North Goodwill staff in a donation box sent from the organization’s Duluth location on Saturday.
“We don’t know exactly where it came from because our donations are put in bins,” Ashland True North’s Assistant Manager Homer Williams said. “When you put your hand in, you never know what you’re going to grab.”
Donated items come from Duluth’s Goodwill branch each Wednesday, and are usually reviewed by staff there, Williams said.
The explosive was found by a sorting staff at the store in nearby Ashland, Wis., around 1:15 p.m. It was immediately given to Williams. Based on a Google search, staff believe it was a Japanese Type 99 hand grenade from World War II.
“It doesn’t look like a typical grenade, but it had a pin,” Williams said. “As soon as it was discovered, I immediately put it outside between the dumpsters away from people and called the police.”
The store was closed and the building, located at 1810 Lake Shore Drive E., was immediately evacuated, Williams said. There were about six employees and nine people shopping there at that time.
Ashland Police Department was the first to respond to the scene. According to Williams, it took approximately 3 ½ hours for the Marathon County Sheriff Bomb Squad to arrive from Wausau, Wisconsin.
Williams said he spent the remainder of the night digging through the other donations to ensure there was no further danger to employees or customers.
“We think it was just somebody’s World War II stash that got mixed in when they passed away or something. I know it was live because they let me know they took it outside of town and blew it up,” Williams stated.
The Ashland True North Goodwill reopened for business on Sunday.
The Ashland Police Department and Marathon County Sheriff’s Department were not immediately available for comment.
(WLUK) — Snow remains deep across parts of the Northwoods and the Upper Peninsula, even though much of Northeast Wisconsin has seen notable snow-melting heading toward spring.
It’s connected to a shift in Pacific climate patterns.
As of Thursday, 75.1% of the Northern Great Lakes area was covered by snow. Snow depth across the Northwoods and the U.P. ranges from 20 to 30 inches, with areas along and north of Highway 8 in Wisconsin at about 20 inches.
But farther south, significant snowmelt has occurred over the last few weeks across Northeast Wisconsin and the southern half of the state.
Looking ahead, an ENSO-neutral spring is looking likely, meaning Pacific Ocean temperatures are not notably above or below average. Conditions tend to be more normal and seasonal, though that does not guarantee typical weather.
La Niña occurs when the Pacific Ocean has below-average temperatures across the central and east-central portions of the equatorial region. El Niño is the opposite, with warmer ocean temperatures in those regions. Those shifts influence weather across the United States and globally.
In Wisconsin, a La Niña spring is usually colder and wetter, while an El Niño spring brings warmer and drier conditions. During a neutral period, neither El Niño nor La Niña is in control and weather can swing either direction.
Despite the snowpack up north, the 2026 spring outlook from Green Bay’s National Weather Service leans toward a low flood risk, because ongoing drought in parts of the state is helping to absorb snowmelt.
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Dry conditions are also raising fire concerns in several parts of the country. Low snowfall in states out west is increasing wildfire concerns, and those areas are already experiencing drought. Wildfire activity can increase quickly if above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation continue into spring. About half of the lower 48 states are in drought this week — an increase of 16% since January.
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