The Minocqua town board’s November decision to enact a seasonal paid parking plan using quick-response (QR) code technology in the entire downtown area and the rest of what is known as “the island” hasn’t been the most popular.
The stage is now set for a decision next week from the Vilas County board regarding all terrain vehicle (ATV) and utility task vehicle (UTV) use on all county roads. Tuesday, the county board’s highway committee voted 4 to 1 to send a draft resolution containing a proposed amendment to Chapter 26 of the county’s Motorized Recreational Trails and Routes ordinance to the county board at its Jan. 28 meeting.
Heading into the week of Jan. 13, what has been a relatively mild winter from a snowfall perspective in the Lakeland area had kept snowmobile trails in Vilas, Iron and Oneida counties closed. Following snowfall on Tuesday night into Wednesday, that changed things.
The tribal council for the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Chippewa Indians let a Jan. 16 deadline expire without barricading four roads that have been at the center of a dispute with the town of Lac du Flambeau for nearly two years. However, non-tribal landowners on those roads are to be cited for trespassing.
In December of 2023, the Minocqua Hazelhurst Lake Tomahawk (MHLT) school district sent a drinking water advisory to parents regarding perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances.
In December of 2023, the Minocqua Hazelhurst Lake Tomahawk (MHLT) school district sent a drinking water advisory to parents of MHLT students in early December regarding perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances. District superintendent Dr. Jim Ellis told The Lakeland Times then that starting in the summer of 2023 public entities like MHLT not on a public water system are required by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to test their wells for PFAS.
The Lac du Flambeau town board on Monday directed the town’s legal counsel to file an injunction jointly with landowners directly involved in a federal case related to a nearly two- year-old road easement dispute with the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
The Woodruff town board at its Jan. 14 meeting named three roads that residences for the Woods Hollow Cottages and Town Homes development will be on. Northpointe Development Corporation has town and Oneida County–approved plans for 50 housing units — 29 cottages and 21 houses — and the excavation for the project, according to Northpointe’s Andy Dumke, is to begin later this month.
The Lac du Flambeau town board during its Jan. 8 meeting took action to make sure Patterson Lane remains designated as a town road not to be used for heavy trucks that haul heavy equipment such as bulldozers and excavators.
The Minocqua town board last week approved a full-service retail sales application from Rocky Reef Brewing Company in Woodruff to sell product during the American Pond Hockey Tournament over two weekends next month.