With the board of education for the Minocqua Hazelhurst Lake Tomahawk (MHLT) school district in June deciding to go to an operational referendum in November of this year, the next step is gathering input from the public regarding the issue.
The town of Lynne, currently with a request submitted to the Oneida County Highway Department to take over Willow Road, has presented information to the county believed to show that at one time, Willow Road had been a county road. Its designation, according to a map discovered by a seasonal resident of Lynne, shows that as of 1939, it was County Highway T.
The position of the town board of Manitowish Waters regarding the use of wake boats was questioned during the public comment portion of the town board’s July 7 meeting. The towns of Manitowish Waters and Boulder Junction had a lawsuit filed against them on June 8 seeking to block enforcement of parallel ordinances the towns have adopted essentially banning wake surfing on the Manitowish chain of lakes.
The Oneida County Sheriff’s Office has released the names of two deputies involved in a shooting at a residence on Lumen Lake Drive in Lake Tomahawk on June 17. Terri Hook, chief deputy for the sheriff’s office, confirmed for The Lakeland Times on June 25 the identity of the person who was shot by law enforcement personnel as John Krga, 76.
An effort to look into the possibility for a Lakeland area YMCA got a boost on June 13 from a fundraising event at Firemen’s Park in Arbor Vitae. John Weiss, who with his wife Shelly owns Lakeland Fitness and Golf in Woodruff, said what was done in the time leading up to the June 13 fundraiser was their business was brought together with Generations Senior Center and the YMCA of the Northwoods in Rhinelander.
The Minocqua town board, in a very brief special meeting on June 30, forwarded a conditional use permit (CUP) application for a dog grooming business to the Oneida County board’s planning and development committee.
When the Lac du Flambeau Town Board met in regular session on June 17, members agreed to approach the Northwoods Emergency Medical Services District (NEMSD) about the possibility of joining the consortium, which currently includes the towns of Manitowish Waters, Boulder Junction, Presque Isle and Winchester.
In the final step to a restructuring of the Winchester town board that started with the resignation in May of town chairman Joe Discianno, Discianno’s successor as town chairman, Nicholas Newton, town supervisor Robert Silvas and town clerk Luke Huybrecht appointed Daniel Dye to the town board during a brief special meeting on July 2.
An administrative review permit (ARP) application that would allow for construction of an accessory storage building on a lot behind Eagle Wings in downtown Minocqua was denied by the Minocqua plan commission during its June 30 meeting.
A Rhinelander man has been charged with causing an injury while operating while intoxicated (OWI) as the result of a collision in Pine Lake between the pickup truck he was driving and a motorcycle just after midnight on June 28.