Shawano Police Department Jan.

The Clintonville Common Council voted Tuesday to move forward with repairs to the city’s outdoor swimming pool after a fire of unknown origin. The State Fire Marshal has been called to assist with the investigation of the fire, which is believed to have happened between Dec. 17 and Dec. 21. Justin McAuly, city park and recreation director, said some of his workers on Dec. 21 noticed the two back windows at the pool were broken.

Maybe the old hospital is just waking up from a long nap. Closed four months ago, the former Shawano Medical Center has started making a peculiar groaning sound that has some neighbors confused and annoyed. One neighbor called police late Tuesday night to report what she thought sounded like a lion or tiger growling off in the distance.

The city of Shawano this week was the recipient of the first-ever Earth Angel Award presented by the Wolf River Chapter of the Wild Ones. The Wild Ones is a national organization with local chapters that promote the use of native plants and natural landscaping to benefit the critical ecosystems that sustain life. The Earth Angel Award was created by the Wolf River Chapter to recognize the efforts of commercial and municipal entities to incorporat

The Wisconsin high school athletics association blew its whistle on fans’ unsportsmanlike taunts and negative chants — including “air ball” and “season’s over” — and directed administrators in an email last month to call fouls on such jeers. Weeks later, the association’s executive director has apologized to athletic directors for the distractions from widespread ridicule that followed the note, which he said Wednesday was intended as a reminder

To the editor: Clintonville came through the first big snowstorm with flying colors thanks to a hard-working, creative street crew and the arrival of our new high-tech snow plow. With a crew of just four, plus department manager Toby Kersten, the department took care of an estimated 9-plus inches of snow in record time.

This column is a response to the front page article from Dec. 30 regarding the insurance negotiations between ThedaCare and Network Health Plan and the allegations made by a local business. I’m not writing this as a corporate representative of ThedaCare, but as a local physician who happens to work for ThedaCare. I’m not sure what word best describes how I felt after reading that article, but a few that come to mind are mad, frustrated and hurt.

I was amazed by the response I received from last week’s column. Many readers requested additional excerpts from my book. In answer to the questions about its completion, I will write the final chapter in April. Here are a few very condensed excerpts: The voice on the other end of the line said, “I am trying to reach the mayor.” I responded “This is she.” The male voice responded.

The other day, while we still had our daughter home to help, we transferred three bred heifers from the heifer barn into the cow barn. The more helpers the better, because there’s a lot of real estate to cover from one barn to the other and plenty of open spaces.