Brian Jopek
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Nokomis town board sets electors meeting date for Nov. 12
The Nokomis town board, meeting in special session on Saturday, Oct. 17, officially set Thursday, Nov. 12, as the date for a special meeting of the electors at the Nokomis town hall.
Firefighters respond to brush fire on Willow Reservoir island
Firefighters from Cassian, Little Rice and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) responded late Monday afternoon to the report of smoke coming from somewhere in the Willow Reservoir near the McCord boat landing in the town of Lynne.
Minocqua town board OKs town’s share of Lakeland Airport budget
The Minocqua town board, on a 4 to 1 vote, Tuesday approved the town’s share of funding the Lakeland Airport’s 2027 budget.
Minocqua’s downtown road work to go a little longer
Motorists who go through downtown Minocqua on a regular basis will have to deal with traffic restrictions due to construction just a bit longer. The work, which originally began before Memorial Day, included paving, curb and ramp work and was to be completed by June 18.
Concerns mount in Plum Lake over impending landline discontinuation
The pending discontinuation of landline telephone service by Frontier Communications was a topic of discussion at the Oct. 13 meeting of the Plum Lake town board and by the end of that discussion, the decision was made to send a message to company representatives as well as state representatives.
Winchester approves school bus stop at town hall
The Winchester town hall and community center will be the new bus stop for Woodruff’s Lakeland Area Bus Services, which handles busing for the five Lakeland area school districts.
Lakeland Airport 2027 budget approval postponed
For years, the elected officials of the four towns that own the Lakeland Airport in Arbor Vitae – Woodruff, Lac du Flambeau, Minocqua and Arbor Vitae – have met on an annual basis, the primary purpose of the meeting to approve the airport’s budget for the next year.
Aspirus Health to close Woodruff’s Seasons of Life Hospice
In May, 2021, Tennessee-based Compassus announced it would be closing its Seasons of Life Hospice in Woodruff, which was first opened in 2000. On Nov. 1, 2021, Aspirus Health assumed operations of Seasons of Life from Compassus and now, nearly five years later, officials with the health care system announced on Oct. 12 the doors to the facility will close.
NTSB report points to pilot delay in switching fuel tanks
Pilot error has been identified as the cause of a Sept. 12 crash landing in Lake Wausau of a single engine Beech K35 airplane with U.S. Rep. and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany onboard. Tiffany and the pilot, Leonard Boltz, escaped serious injury as a result of the incident.
