Ice breakers have been called into service, both on the Great Lakes and on the path around the Falls. On the Great Lakes they will be busy as the shipping season gets under way.

Defense and McKenna Larsen led the Oconto Falls High School girls basketball team to a 44-25 victory over Peshtigo to win the WIAA Division 3 regional championship Saturday in Oconto Falls. The top-seeded Panthers (20-3, 13-3 Bay) raced to an 18-8 lead in the first quarter thanks to Larsen, a 5-foot-7 senior guard who scored 12 of her game-high 19 points in the period. The Panthers’ defense took over from there, holding the third-seeded Bulldogs

The flu wasn’t going to stop Carly Lemke. She knows how much her Oconto Falls High School teammates need her in the girls basketball playoffs, so the senior really stepped up in the WIAA Division 3 regional semifinals Friday night. Lemke tallied a team-high 16 points, hitting her first five shots, and the Panthers’ defense did the rest, smothering Wittenberg-Birnamwood in a 43-29 victory in Oconto Falls. “I tried to stay hydrated and I really pul

Three Lakes too much for Eagles The second-seeded Suring High School girls basketball team lost in the semifinal round of the WIAA Division 5 regional tournament 53-46 to No.

The top-seeded Gillett Secondary School girls basketball team was upset by Green Bay N.E.W.

McKenna Larsen has been named girls basketball Player of the Year in the Bay Conference. She and seven other Oconto Falls High School athletes received all-conference honors for the winter sports season. Larsen, a 5-foot-7 senior guard, was named first-team, all-conference. She led the Bay in scoring this season with 293 points and a 18.3 points per game average. She also led the Bay in assists (82) and steals (63).

Citing a need to spend more time with her family, Dawn Larsen has resigned as head softball coach at Oconto Falls High School.

At 6:05 p.m. March 6 in the town of Abrams, a vehicle driven by a man from Abrams was backing from a driveway on Oak Orchard Road and struck a vehicle operated by a man from Oconto Falls who was stopped in traffic at the end of a driveway opposite the first driveway. The Abrams vehicle sustained minor damage; the Oconto Falls vehicle, moderate damage. Neither driver nor a female passenger from Abrams in the first vehicle was injured.

Proceedings from March 7 A continued initial appearance was held for James E. McDonald on a charge of strangulation and suffocation, which allegedly occurred Sept. 8 in Oconto Falls. He is also charged with physical abuse of a child-intentionally cause bodily harm, attempted strangulation and suffocation, and intimidation of a victim, which allegedly occurred Feb. 13 in Oconto Falls. Cash bonds of $500 and $20,000 continue.