The Oconto Falls Fire Department will host its annual spaghetti dinner fundraiser from 4:30-7:30 p.m. March 21.

Dinner, desserts, refreshments and bucket raffles will be offered at the fire station at 431 Union Ave., Oconto Falls.

Prices are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors 60 and older, $5 for children ages 5-12 and free for those 4 and younger.

Proceeds will be used to purchase additional training equipment.

Christmas is getting too big for one person to plan, so the Shawano Business Improvement District Board on March 5 approved forming a committee to help its director, Lindsey Johnson, to coordinate the growing list of activities.

Board President Chelsea Gilling noted that the BID’s efforts to bring shoppers to the downtown area during the holiday season is paying off.

The Shawano County Sheriff’s Department is down two officers — one human and one K-9.

Deputy Cody Vigue’s last day was March 1. When he quit to accept a job with the Menominee County Sheriff’s Department, he took his K-9 partner Rascal with him.

“They are going to purchase the dog from SOS K-9,” Shawano County Sheriff George Lenzner said about the neighboring county’s plans to buy the dog.

For the second consecutive year, the Shawano County Fair had record attendance, according to the Shawano Area Agricultural Society, which oversees the fairgrounds.

Attendance at the 2025 fair was 74,091, an increase of 4.5% from the 2024 attendance record of 70,751.

Four former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department deputies took their own lives over a six-year period, according to a recent investigation done by The Badger Project, an independent Wisconsin news nonprofit organization.

In all four cases, trauma — whether it was on the job or off — was a factor that caused mental health issues, according to the investigation.

Shawano-Menominee Counties Circuit Court judges William Kussel Jr. and Katherine Sloma could eventually have some company on the bench.

On Feb. 19, Wisconsin Assembly representatives passed Assembly Bill 514, known as the Justice for All Act. Among the issues it seeks to address is a third circuit court judgeship for Shawano and Menominee counties.