In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. So we are told, anyway.

Repeating the fast start in last year’s Central Wisconsin Conference-8 race would be a great way to kick off the baseball season at Bonduel High School. Bonduel went 4-1 to open the 2014 conference season before running into eventual league co-champs Pacelli and Shiocton, whose sweeps of their home-and-home series sent the Bears on a five-game losing streak and quashed their bid to defend the conference crown they won in 2013. There is no waiting

The Wolf River Circuit of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary Society will hold its spring rally April 11 at St. John Town of Center, N3505 State Highway 47, Appleton. The rally is being co-hosted by Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church, Ellington. The theme for the rally is 1 Thessalonians 3:12 “May the Lord make your Love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.” Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.

Shawano Police Department April 1 Police logged 23 incidents, including the following: Assist — Police assisted with a dive team call on Stark Road in Wescott. Juvenile — Police responded to a juvenile problem at the Skateboard Park, 107 E.

AMVETS Post 10 of Shawano is giving away 120 tickets to the Box in the Wood Theatre Guild’s opening night performance of “M*A*S*H” to local veterans. The guild is presenting “M*A*S*H” at the Mielke Arts Center on April 23, 24, 25 and 26, as well as April 30, May 1, 2 and 3. AMVETS Post 10 of Shawano has purchased 150 tickets to opening night and will provide a color guard for that performance.

Clintonville voters will have decisions to make in Tuesday’s spring election, which includes three contested races for Common Council seats and one district with no declared candidates. Three incumbents — Bill Zeinert in District 1, Phil Rath in District 2 and Mark Doornink in District 5 — decided not to seek re-election following a tumultuous year on the council. In District 1, no one filed papers as a candidate, so an alderman could be elected

The income gap between the wealthiest and poorest residents in Menominee County is the largest in the state, according to the County Health Rankings released last week. The rankings, compiled annually by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Health Institute, also showed Menominee County was the least healthiest in the state, ranking 72nd for the sixth consecutive year. This was the first time since 2010 that the rank

Shawano County Finance Director Diane Rusch will retire next month after more than two decades with the county. The county’s Administrative Committee will discuss refilling her position at a meeting Monday. “It’s time to leave,” Rusch said. Rusch said she has been looking to retire for the past couple of years, but wanted to see several finance department projects through to completion while staff changes and turnover sometimes left the departmen

A dive team rescue on Washington Lake in Wescott on Wednesday underscores the hazards of venturing out onto potentially thin ice that has been deteriorating with the early spring weather. “People are still out there fishing,” said Capt. Tom Tuma of the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department. “They have to realize that a lot of the water around here is moving water,” he said. “We have a lot of spring-fed lakes.