The Oconto Falls High School football team lost to Marinette 14-7 Friday in Marinette. Marinette’s Caylubb Maske ran for 207 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries and caught another touchdown from quarterback Marcus Maguire to put the Marines (2-2, 2-2 Bay) up 14-0 by the fourth quarter. The Panthers (0-3, 0-3 Bay) got on the board on a 19-yard touchdown throw from Samuel Konitzer in the fourth, but couldn’t close the rest of the gap.

Lena/STAA shut out by Peshtigo The Lena/STAA football team was shut out 59-0 by Peshtigo on Friday in Lena. Lena/STAA fell behind 28-0 in the first quarter on a pair of Dakota Keller touchdown passes, a 52-yard Jake Venees punt return and a 8-yard Levi Samborn run.

The Oconto Falls High School volleyball team was a perfect 6-0 at the Shawano volleyball tournament Saturday in Shawano. The Panthers and host Shawano both were 5-0, having beaten Clintonville, Valders, Oconto, Kewaunee and Peshtigo, heading into the championship game. Oconto Falls won the first game 25-16 and then took the second game 25-11. Seniors McKenna Larsen and Carly Lemke led most of the stats on the day.

Mike Friedman led the way with a second-place finish and the Oconto Falls High School cross-country team took third at the Shawano Hawk Invitational on Saturday in Shawano. Friedman finished with a time of 16 minutes, 15 seconds in the race, finishing behind only Green Bay Preble’s Daniel LaLuzerne, who crossed the finish line in 16:11. Oconto Falls had a team score of 159. Preble (40) won the event, followed by Green Bay East (139).

For many Oconto Falls area residents, high school football has been as much a part of fall as back-to-school shopping and the smell of burning leaves. Football field lights have shined as beacons across the Friday night sky, as the Panthers, Tigers, Hawks, Bears, et al.

At noon Sept. 2, a chain-reaction accident took place on state Highway 32 north of Section Four Lane, town of Mountain, as a man from Milwaukee stopped for a vehicle ahead of him. To avoid the accident, a Menominee, Mich., man entered a ditch, but a pickup truck driven by an Oshkosh man and a pickup truck operated by a Suamico man were damaged when they were unable to avoid the crash. No injuries were reported. At 1:08 a.m. Sept.

Proceedings from Sept. 12 Laura L. Dey, 33, Oconto Falls, pleaded not guilty to charges of being party to burglary of a building and party to theft between July 15 and 24 in Oconto Falls, to being party to theft between May 1 and Aug. 4 in Oconto Falls, and to bail jumping. A $5,000 signature bond continues. She also faces a preliminary hearing Oct. 7 for being party to theft of movable property on July 10 in Oconto Falls. Nicholas M.

For the third consecutive year, Gillett Elementary School has been recognized as one of the best performing Title I schools in Wisconsin.

Oconto County Public Health will hold walk-in flu clinics from 9-10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 7 and Oct.