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Man arrested on sex charge in Wescott

Authorities on Wednesday arrested a 21-year-old Weston man accused of coming to Wescott for a sexual rendezvous with what he believed would be a 15-year-old girl. The Shawano County Sheriff’s Department said it would be referring a charge of using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime to the district attorney’s office. “The Sheriff’s Department became aware of an individual who was soliciting whom he believed to be an underage female for sex
Linda J. Sienko
Linda J. Sienko, 49, of Keshena, formerly of Milwaukee, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013, in Keshena.
Desean Warren House
Desean Warren House, 19-day-old son of Mequan Corn Sr. and Brittney Pamonicutt, passed away Wednesday, Dec.
Board approves employee handbook
Shawano County finally has a revised employee and administrative handbook, more than two and a half years after the state enacted Act 10, which stripped most collective bargaining rights from the public employee unions. The County Board voted 15-9 Wednesday, with three supervisors absent, to adopt the handbook. The board had rejected the first revision with a 13-13 vote in September.
Susan Jane Van Dyck
Susan Jane (Morrison) Van Dyck, 78, died Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, of complications arising from Alzheimer’s. She is survived by her husband of 23 years, Florian Van Dyck, of Egg Harbor. Susan is also survived by her five children, Mitchell, Amy, Laura (Sid Glenn), Todd and Ward (Gillian Morrison); their father, Miles W.
Keys to the Game: Packers vs. Steelers
Green Bay Packers Loose Lacy The Green Bay Packers will need a heavy dose of rookie running back Eddie Lacy on Sunday. The weather conditions may be snowy and wet, the Packers will either have backup quarterback Matt Flynn or a rusty Aaron Rodgers returning from a broken collarbone at the quarterback position, and the Pittsburgh Steelers have the 19th-ranked rushing defense.
Lacy strong candidate for rookie award
Eddie Lacy was wearing a walking boot on his right foot Wednesday in the locker room, as he has everywhere except to games since spraining his ankle against the Atlanta Falcons in Week 14. The boot is mostly precautionary, as is the decision to hold the rookie running back out of a few practices the last two weeks. “It looks pretty cool,” Lacy said of his protective footwear. However the boot makes Lacy look, there is no doubt what Lacy is: a gri
Public Record
Shawano Police Department Dec. 19 Police logged 17 incidents, including the following: Juvenile — Police responded to a juvenile problem in the 700 block of South River Street. Juvenile — Police logged three truancy complaints from Shawano Community Middle School, 1050 S.
Survivor shares horrors of Holocaust with students
“Hate is nothing.
Daniel Terkel
Daniel Terkel, 88, of Shawano, formerly of Milwaukee, passed away peacefully on Saturday evening, Dec. 14, 2013, at ManorCare of Shawano, where he had been a resident for the past 2 1/2 years. Dan was born Sept. 28, 1925, in Milwaukee, a son of the late Allen and Florence (Lauer) Terkel. In 1943, he entered the United States Army and served during World War II as a tank driver. He served in the European African Theatre of action.
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