The city of Shawano’s finances are in good shape, according to an annual audit by KerberRose that was presented July 8 to the Shawano Common Council.

Gillett’s 70-year-old playground equipment and other iterations will soon be relegated to the past as the city broke ground July 7 on a new $1 million playground at Zippel Park being paid for by a Community Development Block Grant.

HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Rural Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Gold award.

This recognition is given for the hospital’s commitment to offering rapid, research-based care to people experiencing a specific type of heart attack known as an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the most severe and dangerous type of heart attack.

Lambert and Doris Anderson recently celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary, a milestone reached by only some 1,000 married couples in the United States today.

Lambert Anderson grew up in Wisconsin on his father Emil Anderson’s dairy farm on County Road K and graduated from Oconto Falls High School in 1945. He went on to study at St. Paul Bible College, where he met Doris Geist.

Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Suring recently celebrated its 150-year anniversary.

The church, 8540 Trinity Church Road, traces its roots to 1875.

Shawano Municipal Airport will once again be the first flyover point of the EAA AirVenture Cup Race, set for July 19.

Wausau Downtown Airport in Wausau will be the start and finish line for the 28th annual event, when abut 100 unique aircraft in 40 race classes finish the race of more than 400 nautical miles.