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Gillett turns over dirt to start new playground for Zippel Park

Gillett’s 70-year-old playground equipment and other iterations will soon be relegated to the past as the city broke ground July 7 on a new $1 million playground at Zippel Park being paid for by a Community Development Block Grant.

HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital receives award from American Heart Association

HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Gold award.

This recognition is given for the hospital’s commitment to offering rapid, research-based care to people experiencing a specific type of heart attack known as an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the most severe and dangerous type of heart attack.

Andersons celebrate 75th wedding anniversary

Lambert and Doris Anderson recently celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary, a milestone reached by only some 1,000 married couples in the United States today.

Lambert Anderson grew up in Wisconsin on his father Emil Anderson’s dairy farm on County Road K and graduated from Oconto Falls High School in 1945. He went on to study at St. Paul Bible College, where he met Doris Geist.

Suring church celebrates 150 years

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Suring recently celebrated its 150-year anniversary.

The church, 8540 Trinity Church Road, traces its roots to 1875.

28th EAA AirVenture Cup Race coming to Shawano on July 19

Shawano Municipal Airport will once again be the first flyover point of the EAA AirVenture Cup Race, set for July 19.

Wausau Downtown Airport in Wausau will be the start and finish line for the 28th annual event, when abut 100 unique aircraft in 40 race classes finish the race of more than 400 nautical miles.

ATV crashes up, prompting legislators to take action

In April, a woman in Green Lake County was driving three passengers on a UTV when she took a curve too quickly.

The vehicle rolled and hit a tree head-on. One passenger died at the scene and a second just days later. The 26-year-old driver’s blood alcohol concentration was three times the legal limit, according to the police report.

Absentee ballots for primary can be cast July 28

Wisconsin’s next partisan primary election will be Aug. 11, and voters can start to cast absentee ballots at the end of July.

Voters must be registered to vote to request an absentee ballot. Proof of identification must be provided before an absentee ballot may be issued.

Voters can apply with their municipal clerk for an absentee ballot in person, by mail, by fax, by email or at MyVote.wi.gov.

Students invited to create art for Mountain-Bay State Trail anniversary

Area grade school and middle school students are invited to create artwork for The Enchanted Trail, an outdoor student art exhibit that will be featured during the Mountain-Bay State Trail’s 30th Anniversary Celebration on Sept. 26.

Friends of the Mountain-Bay State Trail-Shawano is accepting submissions now.

Students are invited to create artwork inspired by the theme “Things You Can See or Do on the Mountain-Bay State Trail.”

Area bank market president named

Bank of Wisconsin, a branch of Bank of Sun Prairie, welcomes Rick Bondowski as new senior vice president, market president. Bondowski is the executive leader of the Bank of Wisconsin brand of banks now with locations in Birnamwood, Wittenberg, Hatley and Antigo.

His areas of expertise include strategic planning, leadership development, data analysis and forecasting, new product development and operational excellence.

Statewide oat condition rated 81% good to excellent

Wisconsin had 4.6 days suitable for fieldwork statewide for the week ending July 5, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Temperatures well above normal spurred crop growth while heavy rains fell across a swath of the state, impeding some field work.

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