An Oconto Falls woman, 50, reported June 12 that 17 fraudulent transactions were made to her Kohl’s credit card. She stopped the orders and canceled the card. A Green Bay woman, 26, was taken into custody June 14 on two active Brown County warrants after she was involved in a verbal disturbance on South Main Street. The state Department of Health and Human Services was contacted June 15 after HSHS St.

The Gillett School District will rely on $444,000 in reserve funds to cover expenses for the 2015-16 school year, based on a preliminary budget approved Thursday by the School Board.

Although he misses climbing poles and doing field work, Greg Kuhn said he’s adjusting to his new role as manager of Oconto Falls Municipal Utilities. OFMU is a locally owned and operated electric, water and waste water utility that serves more than 1,600 customers in Oconto Falls. Kuhn, who started work on May 26, previously spent 12 years as a journeyman lineman for Hartford Municipal Utilities in Hartford, a city of 14,000 in southeast Wisconsi

A Minnesota man was arrested Monday, June 22, after traveling to Oconto Falls with the intention of meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex, Oconto Falls Police Chief Brad Olsen said in a press release. Mohmednoor Sahane Abdullahi, 21, was taken into custody by the Oconto Falls Police Department, Gillett Police Department and Oconto County Sheriff’s Department. Abdullahi originally made contact with an officer portraying a minor female through an ad p

The Oconto Falls School Board reordered its priorities for funding when it met in special session June 22 at Abrams Elementary School. According to a press release issued by the school district, the School Board, with a 4-2 vote, reversed a decision to split the Abrams fifth-grade class into three sections.

Street construction in the city of Oconto Falls is taking a toll on businesses on Chestnut Avenue, according to Andy Mercier, owner of Mercier’s Fast Stop, who spoke at a public informational meeting Friday. In his bimonthly update, Duke Peters, project manager for Peters Concrete Company, said Chestnut Avenue at the railroad crossing will be closed for 21 days, so the area can be reconstructed and tracks relaid. A 21-day street closure steps awa

Douglas “Doug” Allen, of Little Suamico, was selected as the 51st member of the Oconto Falls Wall of Fame. The induction ceremony took place May 31, the same day as the 2015 Oconto Falls High School graduation celebration. The Wall of Fame was created to honor former graduates who have been successful in life and to serve as an inspiration for today’s students.

This column is guaranteed to drive my editors crazy! Why? Because I’m about to write an exposition about what some people call the “Oxford comma.” I prefer to call it the “serial comma.” That’s the comma that comes just before the conjunction in a list of items or names.

As this issue of the Oconto County Times Herald hits the newsstands along the path around the Falls, the date will be July 1, the start of a new fiscal year and a new era for the school district. Dr.