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Riparian rights attach to property abutting navigable waters
Now that the town of Minocqua has all but surrendered any notion that it owns lands abutting Lake Minocqua along East Chicago and Park avenues, the town has a Plan B: It now asserts that it controls the riparian rights to those properties by virtue of highway rights of way …
Judge denies defense motion in case involving former deputy
A former Oneida County sheriff’s deputy charged with stalking and misconduct in office appears headed for trial after a judge on Thursday denied a defense motion to dismiss the case on the grounds of alleged “prosecutorial vindictiveness”.
Salvation Army to base disaster response units in Rhinelander
Rhinelander will soon be home to two Salvation Army units that can respond to disaster scenes in Oneida and Vilas counties, and provide a hot meal to those displaced and those coming to help, it was announced Tuesday, April 12.
Lac du Flambeau town board authorizes three road construction bids
Lac du Flambeau’s town board approved the solicitation of road construction bids for 2022 during its regular meeting last Wednesday, April 13. Plummer Lake Road, Audubon Lane and To To Tom Drive are the three roads which were authorized to receive bids for improvement, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all …
Lake Tomahawk chooses Pitlik & Wick for road projects
The Lake Tomahawk town board, on April 13, approved a bid from Pitlik & Wick contractors to undertake five blacktopping projects on town roads later this year. Their offer, at $192,186.56, was the cheapest option out of three total bids.
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Newbold town board authorizes bid solicitation for 2022 road projects
The Newbold town board authorized the solicitation of bids for 2022 town road projects during its April 15 meeting.
Resolution for new solid waste facility sent to the Oneida County board
Oneida County’s administration committee, during its April 13 meeting, approved a resolution to be forwarded to the full county board with regard to constructing a new solid waste facility.
Retrial of former NCES custodian accused of child sexual assault set for September
The second trial of former Northwoods Community Elementary School (NCES) custodian Stavros Iliopoulos is scheduled for Sept. 13-15, just over three years after he first stood trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a child in a school closet.
Covid vaccine failure is widespread: Why the health establishment did not see it coming
News analysis Over the past year, some public health officials and scientists have begun to grudgingly admit that mRNA vaccines do not effectively prevent transmission of the virus that causes Covid-19 — a fact scientific papers are underscoring — and now there’s some evidence that the experimental drugs are failing …
State responds to motion challenging identification procedure in Miller homicide case
Oneida County district attorney Mike Schiek has responded to a defense motion challenging the procedure that resulted in the identification of Christopher Terrell Anderson as the Black man seen with 26-year-old Hannah Miller on a roadside in the Town of Pelican on the morning of June 30, 2021.
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Wegner sentenced to probation in Lincoln County disorderly conduct case
Former Oneida County assistant planning and zoning director Peter Wegner was sentenced Monday to one year probation on a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.
North Lakeland’s 2022-23 school start waiver approved
As it will for three of the other four Lakeland area school districts, the 2022-23 school year will start in the North Lakeland school district on Tuesday Aug. 30 instead of Sept. 1.
Minocqua plan commission approves ARP for retail home decor business
The Minocqua plan commission, on April 12, approved an administrative review permit application by Kerchten Murphy to operate a retail home decor business in unit 3 of the multi-tenant building at 8532 Highway 51.
Athletics dominates talks at first LUHS second-Monday meeting
In a move that was decided five months ago, the Lakeland Union High School board held its first monthly “committee of the whole” meeting on Monday, April 11.
Second in-house truck “build” by Vilas County highway department technicians ready to roll
For the second time in 20 years, the Vilas County highway department’s experiment to “build” a snowplow — or patrol truck — for its fleet has been deemed a success.
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