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Overflow parking project at Woodruff’s Stack’s Bay boat landing begins

A Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) project to provide overflow parking at the Stack’s Bay boat landing on Brunswick Road in the town of Woodruff began on Jan. 5. Lynn Wright, a DNR park manager and water/recreation manager for the Northern Highland American Legion State Forest, told The Lakeland Times a crew with Janke General Contractors in Athens cleared trees to make space for what will be 12 parking stalls to accommodate vehicles with boat trailers.

Lake Tomahawk town board approves HVAC bid for community center

In what was possibly the shortest meeting in the history of Lake Tomahawk — it clocked in at four minutes — on Jan. 14 the town board approved a bid from Dahlquist Heating and Cooling of Rhinelander to install a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system in the town’s Raymond F. Sloan Community Center.

Cassian town board forwards sawmill operation CUP application to Oneida County

The Cassian town board during its Jan. 12 meeting voted to forward a conditional use permit (CUP) application from Twin Forest Products. If ultimately approved by the Oneida County board’s planning and development committee, the firm, based in Marathon, would build another sawmill operation in Cassian along U.S. Highway 51.

Filing deadline extension yields a Vilas County board candidate

At least one vacancy on the Vilas County board going into the April 7 election has been avoided. The filing deadline for candidates in this spring’s election was 5 p.m. on Jan. 6.

Chimney check on Northridge Way in Woodruff

Woodruff firefighters on Jan. 13 responded to the report of smoke in a house on Northridge Way. Woodruff fire chief Victor Gee, involved in finding the cause of the smoke, told The Lakeland Times there was no fire.

Area spring election picture rundown

The spring election in the Lakeland area for seats on towns, school boards and the Vilas and Oneida county boards in The Lakeland Times coverage area looks to be, with an exception or two, relatively uneventful.

After nearly three years of blockades and legal crossfire, Lac du Flambeau road dispute enters mediation

Nearly three years after it began, the road easement issue between the town of Lac du Flambeau, the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) will go to mediation.

Lac du Flambeau taps Redman Realty to list decommissioned fire station

The Lac du Flambeau town board at its Jan. 8 meeting selected Redman Realty to handle the marketing and listing for prospective buyers of the town’s former downtown fire station known as the “Wild Rice station” on Wild Rice Avenue.

Three Lakes false alarm

The report of a possible homicide in Three Lakes on Jan. 8 brought officers with the Three Lakes police department and deputies and the special response team with the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office as well as deputies with the Vilas County Sheriff’s Office to a residence a press release from the police department said was “in the area of Military Road and Sheltered Valley Road.”

Indiana woman injured in Minocqua snowmobile accident

A Lake Village, Ind., woman escaped serious injury on Jan. 3 in a late afternoon snowmobile accident on a trail near Minocqua’s Squirrel Lake boat landing on Kobart Road.