Brian Jopek
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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.
Minnesota man sentenced for traveling to engage in sex with a minor
A Faribault, Minn., man was sentenced in federal court last week by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to eight years in federal prison for traveling from Minnesota to Wisconsin to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. The prison term for Creighton Mithaugen, 38, will be followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
Confusion in Nokomis
The town of Nokomis may — or may not — have a special meeting of the electors on Nov. 12. The intent of the meeting is to give eligible voters the opportunity to have their say on a proposal to construct a 1,700 square foot addition on the north side of the town’s fire station which is also where Oneida County’s Med 4 ambulance and paramedics are based and have been since 2009.
LdF voters authorize sale of former fire station
Electors in the town of Lac du Flambeau voted during a very brief special meeting on Oct. 12 to authorize the sale by the town of its former fire station building on Wild Rice Avenue. The building was taken out of service as a fire station by the town last year when the new fire station on State Highway 47 was put into service.
No injuries in Pike Lake garage fire
A Pike Lake garage was destroyed in fire Wednesday afternoon. According to a press release from the Pike Lake fire department, firefighters and equipment were responded to the report of a structure fire at a Thorofare Road residence on Round Lake. The owners of the property are listed as Doug and Laurie Walter.
