Central Wisconsin Electric Cooperative (CWEC) recently won an award of excellence for presentation of local news in the Wisconsin Energy Cooperative News, the voice of the state’s rural electric cooperatives. Bert Lehman, member relations specialist at CWEC, serves as the editor of the co-op’s local pages within the magazine.

CWEC’s magazine pages earned an Honorable Mention in the category of Co-op News for the previous year. Lehman was also recognized for winning the magazine’s cover photo challenge for the April 2023 issue and for writing the cover story of the August 2023 issue.

Awards were presented at the 2023 Communication Power Conference in Spring Green Aug. 24.