Fifty-one people took some time out of their Saturday to hear a presentation about black bears. Winter Park board member Wendy Kraly said the 90-minute presentation, made by Randy Johnson, who has been a large carnivore specialist with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) since 2020, was part of the facility’s “Walk On The Wild Side” series, which began in June 2025 as part of a new educational outreach program.
A Weston-based firm is in the process of surveying a four acre parcel of land owned by Oneida County in the town of Pelican that could very well be the next location of a new vehicle storage, shop and office facility for Northwoods Transit Connections (NTC).
The conditional use permit (CUP) application for a 70-room Hampton Inn hotel and an eight-unit housing facility for the business’s employees in Woodruff was forwarded to the Oneida County board’s planning and development committee for its consideration by the Woodruff town board on April 21.
The Arbor Vitae-Woodruff (AV-W) school district will pursue the hiring of a new Expeditionary Learning (EL) coach to succeed Lauren Beversdorf. Her resignation from the school district was effective at the end of the 2024-25 school year.
The town of Arbor Vitae has been selected as a recipient of funding for work on one of its town roads through the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT). The town received a confirmation letter to that effect on April 14 from Kristina Boardman, Wisconsin’s DOT secretary, who notified the town a project to improve a portion of Witches Lake Road had been selected.
Vilas County supervisor Jerry Burkett will once again serve as board chair. That was one of the results of the county board’s post-April election reorganization during its April 21 meeting. Burkett was nominated by county supervisor Dan Swiecichowski which received a second, one of them from county supervisor Holly Tomalnovich.
It’s taken a little longer than the Lac du Flambeau town board would have liked but the final payment to the primary contractor for construction of the town’s new fire station on State Highway 47 was made during the town board’s April 15 meeting.
The Oneida County board’s planning and development committee during an April 15 public hearing tabled a conditional use permit (CUP) application submitted in January by convenience store chain Circle K Stores.
Charges against a Minocqua business owner are expected to be filed this week. In a press release issued on April 16, Minocqua police chief Glenn Janzer stated a search warrant was executed at Relentless Precision, a gunsmith shop on State Highway 70 on Minocqua’s west side, early that morning.
