Lee Roy Kruse knew early on he was going to devote his life to dairy farming. Growing up in the town of Gillett on the farm owned by his parents, Gail and Martha Kruse, he and eight siblings learned about crops and cows from the very beginning. By age 12 he owned his first calf. Kruse’s wife, Diane, also grew up learning about farming.

Two Gillett High School students committed suicide in the past three years, and three FBLA members decided it was time to take action. “We felt we needed to do something,” said Brianna Lemirande, who graduated in May. She formed a team with classmates Kellie Krueger and Christa Block to develop a suicide prevention service project.

May 28 Deputies logged 22 incidents including the following: Alarm - Authorities investigated an alarm call at Stiles Junction Food and Fuel in Lena. Animal noise - Authorities investigated a call about dogs barking in Sobieski. Noise disturbance - Authorities investigated a motorcycle with no muffler in Sobieski. Accident - Authorities assisted a motorist who hit a deer in Pulaski. Four calls were hang-ups or pocket dials. May 27 Deputies logged

1985: Kruses purchased a 120-acre farm with 24 cows from Melvin and Beatrice Schlorf in Morgan. 1986: Nine cows owned by Lee Roy were moved from his parent’s farm to the couple’s Morgan farm. Cows were milked three times a day. 1988: A machine shed was built using materials from a free-stall barn in Sampson. 1989: A larger barn was added, and Kruses bought Lee Roy’s parents’ herd of 25 cows. 1995: A free-stall barn was erected.

Four people suspected of making and selling methamphetamine were arrested Wednesday morning at a trailer home in Oconto Falls. According to a news release from the attorney general’s office, authorities executed a search warrant at 249 Birch Ave., Lot 15, and discovered and seized processed methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and a methamphetamine production laboratory, as well as items necessary for the production of methamphetamine. Four people

Student speakers at the Oconto Falls High School commencement drew from a variety of sources, borrowing lines from books, music and, lastly, a big brother, to motivate the 111 Class of 2014 graduates Sunday afternoon. “It’s only the beginning. Once you walk out those doors, our true path to adulthood and the real world begins,” graduate Seth Haines told his classmates.

A friend of mine called one day and asked if I’d ever considered doing a column on the specialized language of sportscasters. He was referring especially to terms like “athleticism” and “physicality.” I agreed with him that such words seem to exist only in the vocabularies of the guys behind the mikes, but his call immediately made me think of the Milwaukee Bucks’ first radio play-by-play guy, Eddie Doucette. Remember Eddie?

On Sunday, it seemed that all signs on the path around the Falls pointed to Oconto Falls High School, where we congratulated the OFHS Class of 2014. It was a great day for a graduation. Although the weather was not quite what these graduates might have hoped for, it was a day they had been looking forward to for some time. It was the fall of 2000 when their proud parents put them on the bus for the first day of 4-year-old kindergarten.

Five Oconto County high school graduates and one Marinette County graduate are recipients of the Method Vizelka Memorial scholarship awarded by N.E.W. Credit Union. Vizelka was a 12-year volunteer on the credit union’s board of directors and a believer in the power of education. Every year the credit union awards a scholarship in his memory to a graduating senior from the five Oconto County high schools.