I cringe as I set my alarm for 4 a.m. I am not a morning person, but on the rare occasion when the benefit far outweighs the unwelcome blare of my alarm clock, I make the sacrifice. In this case, there was no doubt that it would.

Names of students named to the Bonduel Middle School third-quarter honor roll have been announced. A Honor Roll Eighth Grade: Kolten Abel, Emily Baumann, Cassidy Beyersdorf, Carson Boldt, Lillian Burrack, Isabella Cynor, Ethan Diemel, Terrance Frea, Luccas Gardebrecht, Levi Gilbert, Benjamin Hadfield, Noel Hille, Hailey Homan, Eden Hyzer, Helen Kienast, Caleb Klosterman, Carson Kralovetz, Allison Krause, Khloe Kurtz, Bayleigh Modzelewski, Emily N

The Oconto County Board approved a resolution April 15 to create an expanded wellness program in the sheriff’s department. Supervisors approved a $48,000 transfer from the county’s general fund to support a contract with an Oconto Falls company called Wellness Command Post, which provides 28 counselors trained in military and law enforcement counseling. Sheriff Todd Skarban said the idea is to offer staff more comprehensive support than the welln

April 14 Deputies responded to 36 incidents, including child abuse at an undisclosed location, criminal damage on Konitzer Road in the Town of Oconto Falls, drugs in Suring, a fire control burn on County Road W in the Town of Mountain, sexual assault in the Town of Little Suamico, fire near CCC and Elm Lawn roads in the Town of Morgan, one traffic stop, one citizen assist, five miscellaneous traffic incidents, five welfare checks; one open-line 9

A 2,000-foot boardwalk near Pine Lake in the Town of Belle Plaine is in the works on land owned by the town. Town officials received approval from the Shawano County Board of Adjustment on April 10 to move forward with the proposal. A crushed limestone walking path, compliant with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), will be built from the wetland boardwalk to the west side of the island between Grass Lake and Pine Lake. This new addition w

A special meeting of the Shawano School District electorate April 14 paved the way for the Shawano School Board to purchase 33.58 acres of land near Shawano Community High School that could be used in a few years as the new home for Shawano Community Middle School. The age of the existing school, built in the 1950s, is making it more expensive for the district to keep the building together and operating, and officials had briefly considered inclu

Wisconsin had 3.3 days suitable for fieldwork statewide for the week ending April 13, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Northern Wisconsin still had some frost in the ground, and in areas, topsoil was too wet for fieldwork. Conditions in central and southern areas of the state allowed for spring tillage and early planting of some crops to begin.