April 10, 2026 – Bluejay 96.3FM 730AM

CITY OF MERRILL STREET DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCES SPRING BRUSH CLEAN-UP DATES

April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 Steve DillonMERRILL SPRING BRUSH CLEAN-UP

The City of Merrill Street Department Spring Brush Clean-Up is scheduled for the week of April 20-23, 2026. All City of Merrill residents are permitted to place brush on the boulevard no later than 6:00 AM, on their regularly scheduled garbage collection day, The Street Department has asked that brush be placed next to your garbage and recyclables, butt ends toward the street. Bundled brush will continue to be collected throughout the year, as usual.

BLUEJAY GIRLS BLANK NORTHLAND PINES, BOYS DEFEAT WAUSAU WEST IN EXTRA INNINGS

April 10, 2026April 10, 2026 Steve DillonMERRILL BLUEJAY SPORTS SCORES

In a game heard last night on WJMT, wjmtfm.com, the WJMT app, and seen on our WJMT TV channel on YouTube, the Merrill Bluejay girls defeated the Northland Pines Eagles in Great Northern Conference softball action 15-0. The game was called after 2 1/3 innings due to the mercy rule. The Bluejay girls scored three runs in the first on only one hit and eight more in the second before scoring four in the third, leading the game to be called. MacKenzie Herdt drove in three runs for the ‘Jays…

RECALL RETRACTED FOR POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED CHICKEN BREAST NUGGETS

April 10, 2026April 9, 2026 Steve DillonRECALL UPDATE

In a story that aired earlier this month on a WJMT Newscast, we shared information regarding the issuance of a Public Health Alert. The product in question was Walmart Great Value Fully Cooked Dino Shaped Chicken Breast Nuggets with a “Best if Used By” date of February 10th, 2027. The notice has now been RETRACTED by the US Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service, who issued the alert. They say that follow up testing, included tests on the original lot, showed no elevated levels of lead in the…