The Shawano Area Writers (SAW) decided that, to reach out to more people who have the desire to write, an additional monthly meeting should be made available to the public. Normally, SAW has held its monthly meetings from 10 a.m. to noon every third Thursday at the Shawano County Library. but members feel that there are many people out there who are working during those hours and cannot attend daytime meetings. Starting Oct.

This week I selected a three-book set from BookBub. The cozy mysteries by Michele Pariza Wacek feature inadvertent sleuth Charlotte “Charlie” Kingsley and are set in the small town of Redemption, Wisconsin. “The Murder Before Christmas,” “Ice Cold Murder” and “Murder Next Door” gave me a bit of Charlie’s backstory. Escaping an abusive relationship, she got lost and stopped for information in Redemption, which turned into her permanent residence.

Being around animals my whole life, and especially dairy animals, I’ve come to discover they definitely communicate over and above our human awareness. For example, a mama cow has a definitive moo when she calls for her calf, a different moo when she perceives harm toward her little one, another moo is a feed-me-now-or-I’ll-die-right-here. Unfamiliar territory fuels yet a different kind of stressful moo.

Sept. 28 Bay Conference Tournament The Hawks tennis team wrapped up the regular season at the Bay Conference Tournament in West De Pere. The girls faced an uphill battle to overcome the New London Bulldogs and Menasha Jays to take fourth place. The Hawks prevailed with two second-place finishes to help propel the Hawks into that fourth-place slot. Jaelyn Hietpas and Ava Hoffman, a newly formed doubles team, stepped into the No.

A man who recently moved to the Town of Belle Plaine is facing a myriad of charges stemming from a Sept. 14 domestic abuse incident. Zachary Runion, 30, has been charged with two counts of strangulation and suffocation, two counts of aggravated battery, two counts of felony intimidation of a victim and one count of false imprisonment. A preliminary hearing on Sept. 27 was rescheduled to Nov.

Homicide by operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated charges and drug charges were filed Sept. 27 against a former Lakewood man accused in the death of a Lake Tomahawk woman in a head-on crash Sept.

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