A 14-unit assisted living complex is scheduled to open in December at 146 N.

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Proceedings from Aug 8 A sentencing hearing was held for Travis R. Pecha, 27, Oconto, on a misdemeanor charge and two felony charges of strangulation and suffocation, domestic abuse, which occurred April 12 in Pensaukee. The misdemeanor charge and one felony charge were dismissed.

Sparsity aid was recently awarded for the 2014-15 school year to 133 school districts, including three from Oconto County, to help address the needs of rural schools. Local recipients are Gillett, $142,633; Suring, $101,071; and Lena, $98,946. Sparsity aid, originally created as part of the 2007-09 budget, was a recommendation of the state superintendent’s Rural Schools Advisory Council.

Oconto County will sell and move as many of the 14 homes north of the courthouse as possible to make way for a law enforcement center and will partner with Habitat for Humanity and the Oconto County Highway Department to clear the area. That was the consensus Aug.

An $8 million street reconstruction project has started in Oconto Falls and will continue until November. Jossart Brothers Inc. last week brought large equipment to the construction area. On Monday, the De Pere company placed detour barricades on Union Avenue.

Voters in the Oconto Falls School District on Tuesday approved two referendum questions, finally giving school officials the funding they sought to develop outdoor athletic facilities and complete maintenance projects. The yes vote also allows the district to expand its one-to-one technology program for students and spend more money for personnel. According to unofficial results, the first referendum question passed 1,290-754 and will allow the d

When my family got our first television set back in 1955, I was a junior in high school and WBAY-TV (channel 2) was the only channel we could get. It was the second channel in Wisconsin when it opened in 1953. WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee is the only older channel in the state. WBAY was originally owned by the Norbertine fathers, the priests who established and ran St.

By the time this week’s edition of the Oconto County Times Herald hits the newsstands sprinkled along the path around the Falls, the numbers on the school referendum will be out, and the suspense will be over. As the pen is put to paper for this column, the crystal ball is still a little cloudy. There seemed to be good community support for both questions, but unlike some of the bigger elections, there was no public opinion polling by the St.