The dedication of ST Paper Stadium will take place at 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, at the stadium south of Oconto Falls High School, 210 N. Farm Road. Former Oconto Falls School Superintendent Dave Polashek will be the master of ceremonies.

Twenty-five agencies, including six from Brown County, were called to a hay fire Monday at an Oconto Falls dairy farm. Smoldering hay was reported in a storage shed at Valley Line Dairy, 8976 Sellen Lane, Oconto Falls, about 7 a.m. “We had about 120 boots on the ground,” Oconto Falls Fire Chief Tim Magnin said.

Riiser Energy and R-Stores announce their partnership with the Gillett School District on a new funding program.

The Oconto County Board on Thursday approved a bulk of the bids for a new law enforcement center and agreed to take $1.75 million from sales tax to pay for the facility. The center, to be built north of the courthouse, will include jail housing for up to 175 inmates, a sheriff’s administration area and a 911 center. The County Board agreed to tap the sales tax fund, which is designated for capital improvement projects, when the cost of the projec

Safety upgrades at Gillett Elementary School will change things up for parents and visitors seeking entrance to the building starting this week. People entering the building during school hours will be required to press a button on an intercom box outside the doors that will ring a buzzer inside the office.

Boy, talk about purists! I’ll come back to that. Regular readers of this column may remember that on a couple of different occasions, I’ve written about our treks on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail.

GIRLS GOLF Panthers place 4th at Marinette meet Oconto Falls tallied a team score of 214, good for fourth place out of 12 teams, at a Bay/NEW North Divisional Meet on Aug. 24. Brittany Russell led the scoring for the Panthers with a 44. Rebecca Berkovitz was second for Oconto Falls, and Brianna LeFebre followed in third with a 55.

When the Tigers needed a stop in the first half, they got it. The Gillett High School football team (2-0) needed a fourth-down stop inside the 10-yard line, a fumble recovery and an interception just to keep the host Marion/Tigerton Thundercatz (0-2) off the scoreboard in the second quarter during Gillett’s 34-6 nonconference victory Friday night. “We started out sluggish, then we got that first touchdown, then we hit a another gear and started g

Bailey Wolf wanted a good start to her senior season. A second-place finish is just what she had her sights set on. The Oconto Falls High School runner paced the girls squad to third place out of four schools Thursday at the Phantom Enduro cross-country meet at Southwest Park in West De Pere. “When I started today, I was so nervous,” Wolf said. “I was like, ‘Why am I so nervous?