This past Saturday night I got the chance to do something that I’ve rarely done in the past 10 years — I sat in the stands with my family and watched races at the Shawano Speedway. In doing so, it reaffirmed my love of dirt track racing and made me realize how I got hooked on this sport to begin with. As we all made our picks for who we thought would win races, I recalled times in my youth when my mom, my dad and I would bet quarters on who we th

Johnny Reiter’s name is spoken with reverence in conversations with members of the Veterans of the Menominee Nation (VMN). The love and brotherhood extends to caring for anything with his name on it.

Two new businesses recently came to downtown Shawano; both sharing the same address, under the same roof and operated by the same co-owners. Anew Tea Emporium and Antiques, at 105 S.

Shawano Police Department Aug.

Were it not for Robert Gabrick, much of the important information about the Four Wheel Drive (FWD) company would have been lost and perhaps gone forever. In 2000 Gabrick came to the FWD museum on 11th Street to do research for two books he wrote about FWD trucks and fire trucks. The following year he began creating an archive for FWD. Gabrick began by going through photographs in paper sleeves stored in filing cabinets in a back room of the museu

A Shawano man is wanted in connection with an armed robbery in Florence County. An arrest warrant was issued last week for Bernard A.

Two years of discussion could be coming to an end as a revamped employee handbook could be in Shawano County Board members’ hands next week. The Administrative Committee put a definitive period on the project Thursday by approving its release to the board, once the attorney who has been working with the county gives it another look this weekend to iron out any final issues.

A dog heard barking in a foreclosed home led Shawano police to a gruesome find Wednesday when they discovered numerous dead and abandoned animals inside. Authorities required hazardous materials suits and breathing apparatuses to enter and clear out the house at 817 E. Maurer St.

Lovers of Shawano County’s barn quilts will be able to get their fill and more with a new book that came out last week. The book, put together by Jim Leuenberger, barn quilt project coordinator, features the first 222 barn quilts, started in 2010.