Townsend

Lakes Country ready to become a joint library

Published by admin on Wed, 10/09/2019 - 3:45pm

OCONTO — Lakes Country Public Library in Lakewood is slated to become the third joint library in Oconto County — joining Lena and Suring — effective Jan. 1.

Nicole Lowery, director of the Lakewood facility, told the Oconto County Board during its Sept. 19 meeting that there are three forms of library in Wisconsin — a consolidated county library like Brown County, a municipal library funded by one local government entity, or a joint library in which several municipalities get together to fund and operate the library.

Emergency funds OK’d for stricken Oconto County towns

Published by admin on Tue, 08/06/2019 - 1:52pm

OCONTO — Oconto County Sheriff Todd Skarban said Thursday the damage from a July 19 windstorm was the worst he’s ever seen, including the 2007 tornado that struck the Mountain area.

Skarban and Emergency Management Director Tim Magnin briefed the County Board on the aftermath of the macroburst that struck Northeast Wisconsin that night, leveling thousands of trees and leaving more than 40,000 county residents and businesses in the dark, some for as much as eight days.