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Winchester town chairman steps down
The May 11 regular meeting of the Winchester town board was the final time Joe Discianno would preside over a town board meeting as town chairman. “It was my last monthly (meeting), yeah,” he told The Lakeland Times Monday, indicating his departure as town chairman is because of health and personal issues.
WPS crews respond to May 15 area power outages
Two separate power outages occurred within minutes of each other in the Minocqua, Woodruff and Arbor Vitae area on the afternoon of Friday, May 15, resulting briefly in power loss for nearly 3,000 customers.
Dry, windy conditions result in brush fire on Kobart Road
Dry, mid-May conditions in the area, coupled with some wind, have kept area fire departments and firefighters with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) busy with wildfires and brushfires over the past couple of weeks.
No injuries, citation issued in two-vehicle collision on Hwy. 51
No one was injured as the result of a two–vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 51 near the intersection with Fir Street on Minocqua’s south side on Saturday, May 16.
Minocqua town board meeting brief but busy
The Minocqua town board met for a little more than 15 minutes Tuesday, appointing Joe Hegge and Angie Maki to the board of directors for the Minocqua public library. Also recommended for approval to the Oneida County board’s planning and development committee was a conditional use permit (CUP) application for a second boat storage building at Lakeside Boat Rentals on Rylee Lane, an application that had been forwarded from the town board’s plan commission during its May 12 meeting.
Hwy. 51 open from Tomahawk through Minocqua for Memorial Day weekend
Two U.S. Highway 51 projects that began in April and were scheduled by Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials to reopen before Memorial Day weekend have met that deadline.
Woodruff and Minocqua fire departments conduct joint training
Firefighters with the Woodruff and Minocqua fire departments on the evening of Monday, May 18, took advantage of the donation of a house on Country Lane in Woodruff for use in a series of training exercises centered around the search and rescue of fire victims.
Lakeland Airport clears land purchase as administrator resigns over internal turbulence
The Lakeland Airport Commission (LAC), meeting for less than 10 minutes in special session on May 14, accepted the formal approvals from each of the town boards representing the towns that own the airport — Lac du Flambeau, Arbor Vitae, Woodruff and Minocqua — that provides authorization for the LAC to purchase nearly eight acres of property.
Circle K Stores kills CUP application in Woodruff
Circle K Stores has pulled the plug on a conditional use permit (CUP) application it had submitted for the former bank building at 103 Elm Street (U.S. Highway 51) on the northwest corner of the Hwy. 51 and County Highway J intersection.
