Add a bit of life to your holiday gatherings with the help of succulents. You and your guests will enjoy the easy-care beauty of succulents. Their subtle colors and dramatic form make them great gifts and decorations now and throughout the year.

Small-scale succulents provide a multitude of opportunities for incorporating them into your holiday celebrations. Just select containers that complement, but don’t overpower their charm.

As the holiday season approaches, AbbyBank and other financial institutions are coming together to warn their communities of two fast-growing fraud schemes — pig butchering scams and charity scams.

Northcentral Technical College will partner with Judicare Legal Aid to host a free estate planning workshop.

The workshop will be held from 1-5 p.m. Nov. 19 in Room E101 at NTC’s Wausau campus. The event is free.

The next American Legion Gunless Poultry Shoot will take place at 1 p.m. Nov. 15 at School House Bar, 14007 State Highway 32-64, Mountain.

The legion will raffle off packages of meat, poultry, sausages, bacon, beverages and items donated by local businesses. There will also be 50/50 and basket raffles.

Wittenberg-Birnamwood swimmers captured four gold medals, five silver medals and three bronze medals at the Bay Conference meet Oct. 30 in Clintonville. The Chargers placed fourth among seven teams.

Shawano placed fifth, with swimmers earning a pair of bronze awards.

Kelsie Davis, of the Chargers, was also named swimmer of the year.

For the Chargers, each swimmer placed third or better in all of their events.

Bonduel High School senior Ryan Westrich earned several Packerland Conference football honors, including defensive lineman of the year and defensive player of the year.

Westrich was also named to the all-conference first team for offense as a tight end/fullback and on defense as a defensive lineman.

Oconto Falls junior Lucy Ripley was named to the North Eastern Conference all-conference first team as an outside hitter, having been chosen as a unanimous selection.

Junior Izzy Otto was also named to the first team as a setter.

Named to the all-conference second team was senior libero Rylie Shallow.

Four Suring High School girls were named to the M&O Conference all-conference volleyball first team.

They were sophomore Aliya Cox, junior Lexis Remic, senior Chloe Schroeder and sophomore Ellayna Skarban.

Named to the second team were Lena junior Abby Kostreva and Gillett junior Audrey Pate.

Peter James Bowman, 78, of Gresham, started his journey to the spirit world on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025, at sunrise in Shawano, and surrounded by his loving family.