Panthers fall to West De Pere The Oconto Falls High School boys basketball team opened Bay Conference play Friday with a 66-31 loss to West De Pere in De Pere. Michael Fifield led Oconto Falls (0-3, 0-1 Bay) with nine points. Cody Schwartz led West De Pere (2-0, 1-0 Bay) with 25 points. ^ Gillett drops M&O battle to Crivitz The Gillett Secondary School boys basketball team lost to Marinette & Oconto Conference foe Crivitz 56-41 Friday in

Life after Jake Morrissey and Mitch Friedman has officially begun. And the Oconto Falls High School wrestling team passed its first test with flying colors. The Panthers opened the season Thursday night at home and got solid production up and down the lineup, winning nine matches en route to a 49-20 victory over Seymour in the Bay Conference meet. “We were very happy with how the guys came out,” Oconto Falls tri-head coach Marc Kinziger said.

A fast start wasn’t enough for the Suring High School girls basketball team in a 58-41 loss to Bonduel on Dec.

A solid first quarter by the Gillett Secondary School girls basketball team was undone by a Bonduel sharp-shooting junior and a scoring drought in a 54-20 nonconference loss Friday in Gillett. “They worked hard,” Gillett coach Justin Daul said of his team. “I can’t ask for anything more than that. We’re not deep enough.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is accepting new applications for the Conservation Stewardship Program. Farm and forest landowners may apply by Jan. 17 for possible 2014 funding. In 2013, 308 Wisconsin farmers and forestland owners enrolled in CSP, with an average payment of $5,408 per contract.

At 8:40 p.m. Dec. 6, a pickup truck driven by a Peshtigo woman swerved to avoid striking a deer while traveling north on County Road Y in the town of Little River. Her vehicle left the roadway and entered a ditch. She was cited for failure to notify authorities of the accident. Her pickup sustained moderate damage. At 2:35 p.m. Dec.

Gillett’s newly constructed salt shed provides a safer and easier method for the delivery of salt, according to Public Works Director Tim Christensen. “It works just as planned,” Christensen said of the $43,000 storage facility constructed south of the fire station at 310 W.

Law breakers in Gillett will pay a higher price for their crimes after Jan. 1. The City Council on Thursday agreed to double the fees for drug-related ordinances, increasing the municipal deposit from $250 to $500.

Proceedings from Dec. 5 Dustin T. Sonnenburg, Gresham, pleaded no contest to possession of a controlled substance. He was arrested June 21, 2012, in Gillett. He was placed in the Oconto County Volunteers In Probation program for a year, ordered to pay $253 court costs, attend alcohol and other drug abuse assessment, and receive any treatment or counseling ordered. A pretrial conference is scheduled Feb. 13 for Yvahn L. Shaw, 26, Oconto.