The sun set on Richard “Dick” Henry Rollmann’s life on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, surrounded by his family at his home in Appleton.

Michael E. Riesch left this life peacefully at home on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025.

Mike was born Aug. 30, 1946, to Virginia and Van Riesch of Slinger. He spent his childhood and the last 40-plus years of his life in rural Wisconsin, which he loved. In between he lived, studied and worked in Milwaukee, Washington, D.C., and Pueblo, Colorado.

Loggers have lost customers as local mills have shuttered, but now some of them are taking steps to breathe new life into those mills.

One step forward took place Oct. 23 in Tilleda as Timber Professionals Cooperative Enterprises as its first chip mill formally opened off of Mill Lane. Chip mills produce the material that can be sold off to make paper and for other projects.

A double rainbow spread across the sky over Laney Cheese in Pulaski the evening of Oct. 21. A double rainbow is caused by sunlight reflecting twice inside a raindrop. The first reflection creates the primary rainbow, while the second reflection results in a fainter, secondary rainbow with its colors reversed. This secondary bow is located above the primary bow.

Replacing several Shawano County government buildings could cost upwards of $300 million, and supervisors reacted to the news with inquiries about savings plans for the future projects.

“At public property, we got a terrific sticker shock,” Shawano County Board Chairman Tom Kautza said to supervisors at the Oct. 22 county board meeting.

A Shawano man is in the Shawano County Jail on a $50,000 cash bond after being charged with stalking his ex-girlfriend.

The number of animal units allowed at a Town of Hartland farm is being proposed to increase from 2,293 to 2,490, an 8.6% difference.

The Shawano County Land Conservation Department held a public informational hearing on the Schmidt’s Ponderosa plan Oct. 20 at the Hartland Town Hall.

Six months have passed since James C. Radford was arrested on charges of first-degree homicide connected to the shooting death of his wife, but Radford has yet to find an attorney.

Shawano County 4-H recently wrapped up a successful year of achievement with the 4-H Fall Fun Fest, held at the Dam Barn, Caroline.

Donations were collected for the Shawano Area Early Childhood Partnership’s Giving Closet. Youths and adults made pumpkin magnets to be distributed as a community service project.