We very much enjoy the Amish community. They are a life-giving, generous, friendly group who seem to thoroughly delight in serving people.
With a freewill offering, one can enjoy a breakfast hosted by the these sweet folks, located in rural Marion. Homemade pancakes accompanied by scrambled eggs (with ham and cheese), ham slices, porky links, orange juice and coffee are on the menu, along with a melt-in-your-mouth glazed doughnut.
Michael E. Riesch left this life peacefully at home on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025.
Mike was born Aug. 30, 1946, to Virginia and Van Riesch of Slinger. He spent his childhood and the last 40-plus years of his life in rural Wisconsin, which he loved. In between he lived, studied and worked in Milwaukee, Washington, D.C., and Pueblo, Colorado.
Loggers have lost customers as local mills have shuttered, but now some of them are taking steps to breathe new life into those mills.
One step forward took place Oct. 23 in Tilleda as Timber Professionals Cooperative Enterprises as its first chip mill formally opened off of Mill Lane. Chip mills produce the material that can be sold off to make paper and for other projects.
A double rainbow spread across the sky over Laney Cheese in Pulaski the evening of Oct. 21. A double rainbow is caused by sunlight reflecting twice inside a raindrop. The first reflection creates the primary rainbow, while the second reflection results in a fainter, secondary rainbow with its colors reversed. This secondary bow is located above the primary bow.
Replacing several Shawano County government buildings could cost upwards of $300 million, and supervisors reacted to the news with inquiries about savings plans for the future projects.
“At public property, we got a terrific sticker shock,” Shawano County Board Chairman Tom Kautza said to supervisors at the Oct. 22 county board meeting.
Six months have passed since James C. Radford was arrested on charges of first-degree homicide connected to the shooting death of his wife, but Radford has yet to find an attorney.
