Members of the Shawano County Board on June 24 adopted a 12-month moratorium on the siting, construction, establishment and operation of data centers in the unincorporated towns in Shawano County that have approved the county’s zoning authority.

It does not affect any cities, villages or the towns of Almon, Bartelme, Belle Plaine, Hartland, Hutchins, Lessor, Pella, Richmond and Wescott, all of which have their own zoning laws.

Single-family and multifamily housing units have recently been built in Shawano, Bonduel and Wittenberg, but Peter Thillman said more work still needs to be done for supply to meet demand in Shawano County.

Thillman, executive director of Shawano Community Economic Progress Inc., provided an annual update to the Shawano County Board on June 24.

He thanked the board for investing in a 2022 housing study.

Assets belonging to Shawano’s Newcap location are now up for sale in accordance with the court-ordered liquidation decision.

All of the contents in the Newcap building at 504 Lakeland Road are now available through Titletown Auction Company. The auction began June 24.

Bidding is open to the public and takes place exclusively online through Titletown Auction Company’s website.

A Pound man pleaded no contest June 24 to a reduced charge for shooting his friend in the leg one year ago in June 2025.

Cody Race, 37, pleaded no contest to aggravated battery — intending bodily harm with the use of a dangerous weapon, according to online court records. That charge was reduced from attempted first-degree intentional homicide through a plea agreement, which was accepted by Judge Jay Conley.

The Shawano-Menominee Counties Health Department reports that a bat in Shawano County has tested positive for the rabies virus, which is transmitted from infected mammals to humans (typically via a bite) and is nearly always fatal once symptoms appear.

Filling a vacancy on the Shawano County Board has spiraled into arguments of free speech, citizens’ rights and issues of discrimination.