Allan G. Jensen, 81, of Birnamwood, died Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026, under the care of his family and Heartland Hospice.

Allan was born Sept. 16, 1944, in Wittenberg, the son of Allen and Irene (Pingel) Jensen. Allan was united in marriage to Mary Dring on Aug. 15, 1964, in Richland Center. She preceded him in death July 17, 2018.

The Gillett School District has learned lessons from a failed operational referendum in April and made some adjustments to ask for smaller bites when it asks voters to approve overriding state-mandated funding caps this November.

The Shawano County Fair kicked off its 145th year Sept. 2, with officials vowing this would be the best one yet as the fair celebrated the United States’ 250th anniversary.

A 20-foot-long enclosed trailer once confiscated as evidence from a crime will soon be used as the new mobile command vehicle for the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department.

The public safety committee voted Sept. 2 to authorize the disposal or sale of the existing Winnebago RV and replace it with the trailer.

An emergency management grant of about $40,000 for Shawano County finally appears to be on its way.

Shawano County Sheriff Lt. Chris Madle, also the county’s emergency management director, told the public safety committee Sept. 2 the application for the Emergency Management Performance Grant was received the previous week.

Shawano city officials were scratching their heads at a proposal from the Shawano County Humane Society asking for more money to fund its operations or risk losing services in the coming year.

Shawano County Deputy Michael Mullett, left, is introduced and takes his oath of office, administered by Sheriff George Lenzner, right, at the Sept. 2 public safety committee meeting at the sheriff’s department. During the summer, Mullett started work as a correctional officer in the jail and was promoted to a deputy when another officer resigned to accept a position with the Wisconsin State Patrol.

From meat to vegetables, everything sold on the Cannon Family Farm is all-natural and homegrown, farm to table.

Born and raised appreciating a farming background, owner Sheldon Cannon stresses the importance of knowing where food comes from. Raising steers, geese, ducks, roosters, chickens, pigs, rabbits and goats, he is kept busy offering healthy, clean food.

To say 9-11 was a seminal moment in American history is a huge understatement. Most people of school age in 2001 can tell you exactly where they were that day. Though it’s 25 years since it happened, the events are seared into my memory as they must be in yours.