To the editor: It is sad to see what has happened to the Republican Party in this country. Influenced by tea party extremists, the Republican Party is now little more than the Party of No. Led by their visceral hatred of President Barack Obama, they no longer are interested in the national or state economy, much less the poor and minorities. Their leader in the U.S. Senate, Sen.

To the editor: Just today, a retiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent leaked to Fox and other news agencies that all the “new” ICE and Border Patrol agents we are supposed to have enforcing immigration laws have been reassigned away from the border by the administration flunkies at Homeland Security! These agents in many cases work only four hours a day with zero border enforcement duties.

To the editor: Sheriff Randy Wright’s comments in the July 31 Leader article contain incorrect statements about the evidence storage building. Let’s look at facts. The Shawano County Board approved a secured evidence storage building in the Capital Improvement Plan, a 50- by 100-foot building, for a cost of $306,545, to be constructed in 2009. The board funded the project on Jan. 29, 2009.

The Clintonville American Legion baseball team had the tying run on third base in the seventh inning but couldn’t get him home and lost 5-4 to Wisconsin Dells at the American Legion Class A tournament Friday in Nekoosa. Trailing 5-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Diamond Cats (19-6) loaded the bases on Vinny Doberstein’s single, a base on balls by Zac Riemer and a single by Jake VanAllen.

The fight over Wisconsin Gov.

A two-week trial has been canceled for an Oconto Falls man facing homicide charges in the 1998 death of Chad McLean. An out-of-court settlement has been reached in the case of Charles J. Mlados, 55, according to his attorney, George Pappas Jr. The settlement will be outlined at 1:30 p.m. Monday in Oconto County Circuit Court. “The settlement is definitely in my client’s best interest.

In the five years the World of Outlaws Late Model Series has come to the Shawano Speedway, the races have always been a major draw. Brad Luepke, promotions and marketing manager for the Shawano Speedway, said “we sell probably a good 1,000 to 1,500 more tickets” than for the weekly race schedule. “What we order for concessions compared to a regular night is probably triple what we probably do on a Saturday night,” he added.

For the third time in four years, Kentucky’s Darrell Lanigan rolled into victory lane Tuesday at the World of Outlaws Late Models Series race at Shawano Speedway. “We just have a good car, man,” Lanigan said.

If you’ve watched an NFL game, you’ve seen commercials for the NFL’s Play 60 campaign, an effort to get kids to be active for 60 minutes every day. A part of the national campaign will come to Shawano, thanks to partnership between the Shawano Parks and Recreation Department and the NFL FLAG Football program. A flag football program for youths will start in Shawano this fall. “We just figured that that’s something that we didn’t have here,” said