The Shawano Leader

Interior secretary Deb Haaland gives a campaign speech to Shawano County Democrats during a political event March 16.

Warren Bluhm | NEW Media
03/18/2024 - 4:22pm
The U.S. Secretary of the Interior swept through northeast Wisconsin on March 16, but her only public appearances were strictly partisan events aimed at rallying the Democratic Party vote during this election year. The occasion was a series of...

Wittenberg Enterprise & Birnamwood News

03/18/2024 - 1:31pm
• Michael L. Szafranek, 43, Crivitz, pleaded no contest March 11 to felony bail jumping and issuing worthless checks, along with a misdemeanor bad checks charge. Judge Katherine Sloma withheld sentencing and placed him on three years of probation...

Oconto County Times Herald

A boat anchors off shore while young people enjoy the water at East Side Beach during the Sunset Concert Series event last July in Oconto Falls. The condition of the raft makes it unlikely it will be available this summer, and the city is struggling to find lifeguards to staff the swimming area.

File | NEW Media
03/18/2024 - 4:19pm
Chances are improving that East Side Beach in Oconto Falls will be staffed by lifeguards this summer after all. Because of a chronic lack of candidates and other budget issues, the city passed a 2024 budget based on setting a swim-at-your-own-risk...

SPORTS

03/18/2024 - 4:36pm
The Wittenberg-Birnamwood girls track and field team scored 149.5 points and placed second out of eight teams at the Northland Pines Indoor Invitational on March 14 in Eagle River. The boys team placed 10th out of 10 teams with 14 points. Menominee...

Community

03/18/2024 - 4:41pm
A few years ago, I read Kim Michele Richardson’s “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.” It sketches out life in 1930s Kentucky and relates how the women of The Pack Horse Library Project would ride a circuit into the surrounding mountain to deliver...

OPINION

Brad Olson
03/07/2024 - 5:40pm
For many years, we have seen tension between local governments and farmers caused by the need to haul heavy loads over roads and bridges that weren’t up to the task. These crumbling pieces of infrastructure are often due to limited funding to...