Witt’s Piggly Wiggly, Oconto Falls, hosted an awards presentation July 28 honoring state Sen. Tom Tiffany, recipient of the Friend of Grocers award presented by the Wisconsin Grocer’s Association. The award is given to legislators who score high on the WGA’s Legislative Report Card, which evaluates the support of the grocery industry shown by legislators during the 2013-14 session.

Voters in the Oconto Falls School District will decide Tuesday whether to support $3.4 million in athletic, maintenance and educational improvements. The first referendum question, paid with a long-term bond, is a $2.2 million proposal to build a football stadium and track at Oconto Falls High School, re-do parking lots at district buildings, and renovate the parking lot and entrance at Abrams Elementary School. A second referendum question asks

A July 18 call requesting $300 from an Oconto Falls resident is an example of a phone scam reported to the Oconto Falls Police Department. The caller, posing as a relative of the Oconto Falls resident, said he needed bail money for a drunken- driving incident. According to Sgt.

Wendy Wozniak has been appointed to represent the town of Breed on the Suring School Board. She will fill the remainder of the term of Melissa Trepanier, a 15-year member who resigned in June. Wozniak said she looks forward to learning how the school district operates and is eager to take on her new role. “I always had an interest in being involved in the community, especially the school system,” she said. In an email to the Times Herald, Superin

A mother’s goal to update the playground at her daughter’s school was accomplished last week with the installation of $50,000 worth of equipment. Stephanie Kurek spearheaded the St. Anthony School fundraising project that spanned four years and resulted in a playground full of colorful and inviting equipment for climbing, swinging, sliding and imagining. “It’ll be good for them.

A man charged in the homicide of a Green Bay teenager in 1998 and cover-up that followed was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison Monday on reduced charges. Charles J.

To the editor: Our Gillett Public Library director, Kay Rankel, the Gillett Public Library staff, Library Board and Friends of the Gillett Public Library have been researching for quite some time how to obtain space to increase library functions and meet needs in our community. They have, without use of community tax dollars, obtained the former bank building adjacent to the library.

You’d be surprised how much information there is on the Internet about albino squirrels. Maybe you’re wondering why I’d be looking for information about albino squirrels. Simple: I saw one a couple of weeks ago while we and our friends Dave and Karen and John and Laurie were out on one of our jaunts on the Ice Age National Scenic Trail. And it wasn’t just me seeing things; Marilyn and David saw it, too.

When we think about the years that pass by on the path around the Falls, or just about any place else, there are some that tend to have special significance. Fifty years is special. It was 50 years ago that the Mustang was introduced. One hundred years ago marked the start of World War I.