Fifield resident David Ebert submitted a recall petition with 197 signatures to town clerk Crystal Cowling and deputy town clerk Kelly Kleinschmidt at the outset of a June 18 town board meeting.
The Presque Isle town board, during a June 20 meeting lasting over three hours, agreed by a vote of 2-1 to amend its wake ordinance, ordinance 507, in order to eliminate an original “carveout” of Oxbow Lake, but first have it reviewed by town attorney Steve Garbowicz and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Town chairman John MacLean was the dissenting vote.
At a Monday meeting, the Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk (MHLT) elementary school district’s board of education discussed a situation involving two books dealing with same-sex relationships recently read to a third-grade class.
The Manitowish Waters town board had all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and utility task vehicles (UTVs) being allowed on town roads again on its meeting agenda for June 11.
Manitowish Waters town chairman John Hanson and town supervisor Lynn Schroeder decided to hold off on making any decisions with regard to a possible draft ordinance addressing “excessive wake” during a June 11 meeting.
Parents of third-grade students in the Minocqua-Hazelhurst-Lake Tomahawk (MHLT) school district contacted The Lakeland Times after discovering that two books addressing same-sex relationships were read to their children.
Paul Lewandoski, who presented a similar ordinance to the Winchester town board on June 3, presented the Presque Isle town board with an ordinance to regulate hazardous wakes on Papoose Lake during a June 5 meeting. The two ordinances make a joint ordinance between the towns, not the first of its kind, and is being referred to as subchapter 508.