Lyle “Buck” Brazeau, 80, Gillett, passed away Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 20, 2013, at his residence. Lyle was born Oct. 10, 1932, to the late Samuel and Mary (Miller) Brazeau. On Dec. 13, 1952, Buck married his first wife, Elizabeth (Davis) Brazeau. She preceded him in death on Aug. 4, 2009. On Oct.

Richard G. Clayton Jr., 55, Suring, passed away at home on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2013. Richard was born to Richard G. and Guerda A. (Husum) Clayton on Aug. 18, 1958. Richard is survived by his daughter, Joy (John) Darrow, of Green Bay; his son, Richard G.

Marilyn “Hazel” Baldwin, 73, of Cecil, passed away Friday, Aug. 23, 2013, at the Jack and Engrid Meng Unity Hospice Residence, with her loving family at her side, after a valiant fight with leukemia. She was born Jan. 20, 1940, in California, Pa., to the late Dallas and Gertrude Martin. Hazel was raised in Grover and graduated from Peshtigo High School in 1958. She married Macklyn Baldwin Jan.

An end-of-summer party is planned in Suring when the village holds its 83rd annual Labor Day celebration from Aug. 30-Sept. 2. Event organizer Cindy Zahn said the celebration brings hundreds of people into the village. “It’s a lot of fun. It usually is an annual homecoming for people who used to live here,” she said. Many of the traditional events will return this year, including the demolition derby, fireworks show and Labor Day parade.

Margaret Elfe and Luretta Wilber, of the town of How, have been awarded the Suring Area Senior Citizen Award and will serve as grand marshals of the Suring Labor Day Parade. The women will receive their award at 12 p.m. Monday, Sept. 2, at Veteran’s Memorial Park. The parade begins at 10 a.m Monday, Sept.

More than 40 local children performed an original musical adaptation of the classic tale, “Pinocchio,” Aug.

Joseph Patzer presented his design for a lunar wheel to NASA in a competition in July. “One of my professors told me about the competition and suggested I do it,” said Patzer, a 2009 Gillett High School graduate and senior at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Lunar Wheel Design Challenge involved designing and building a lunar wheel prototype and demonstrating its capabilities for NASA.

Thursday will be a memorable evening as fans along the path around the Falls will see several names for the very last time on the back of an official Green Bay Packers jersey. A number of aspiring NFL players will have their last shot at making the team before the next roster cut. Decisions were made after Friday’s game.

I saw a YouTube piece on the “Today” show a while back that made me think about an incident in my kidhood; well, actually in my sister’s kidhood, I guess. I was only a spectator, not a participant in the event. First of all, let me tell you about the YouTube, and then I’ll come back to my story. The film clip was about a rooster named McNugget in Issaquah, Wash.