Dec. 17 Rhinelander 134, Shawano-Seymour 33 The Rhinelander High School boys swim team won all 11 events in a 133-34 victory over Shawano-Seymour at the Heck Family Community Pool in Rhinelander. “Rhinelander again looks to dominate the conference,” coach Sarah Tracy said.

Plans are in the works for the Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District to expand hours at the fitness center in the wake of having to cut back hours at the pool due to the shortage of lifeguards. A formal proposal will come before the Wittenberg-Birnamwood School Board in January, but Superintendent Garrett Rogowski brought up the idea to the board at its Dec.

A New Jersey man who headed a corporation that owned and operated Atrium skilled nursing facilities in Shawano, Oconto Falls and other Wisconsin cities, pleaded guilty Dec.

Here at Otter Run, it just isn’t Christmas without Kathie’s Christmas Candy. There are four that I make every year — cashew/peanut clusters, blossom cookies, peanut butter balls and seafoam. Chocolate makes me break out in fat, and I don’t like super-sweet desserts, so I rarely eat the candy, but I do have fun making it. If you are reading this after Christmas, there’s no reason not to give one of the following recipes a try.

As many of us scroll through our favorite news app, we are greeted by reports of workplace violence, from verbal and physical confrontations to fatal shootings. What is often missing from the headlines are stories of the increasingly high frequency of workplace assaults suffered by health care professionals across the country. The data is alarming and demands greater public attention.

On Monday, Dec. 16, 1957, 67 years ago, four men drove into Oconto with a World War II Sherman tank. Recalling the event years later, Bob Schmit and Doug Bake said it wasn’t easy. “We heard we could get a tank for nothing to put on display in front of the American Legion Golf Club if we would go and pick it up from where it was,” Schmit said. “This one happened to be located 250 miles away.

I began my love of birds because of their beautiful feathers and lovely songs, but what keeps me intrigued are all the weird and wonderful things they can do. While touching just the tip of the iceberg, here are a few of my favorites. Crows, pigeons, magpies and mockingbirds can recognize faces and remember which humans are good to them and which are bad. If you are nice to them, they may bring you trinkets as a gift.