11 March 2014

Regional Champs

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
11 March 2014
Lemke leads Panthers in semifinal
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
11 March 2014
Prep Roundup
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.
11 March 2014
Tigers upset by N.E.W. Lutheran
The top-seeded Gillett Secondary School girls basketball team was upset by Green Bay N.E.W.
11 March 2014
Eight OFHS athletes earn Bay Conference honors
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).
11 March 2014
Larsen resigns as softball coach
Citing a need to spend more time with her family, Dawn Larsen has resigned as head softball coach at Oconto Falls High School.
11 March 2014
Oconto County Sheriff’s Department
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.
11 March 2014
Oconto County Circuit Court
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.
11 March 2014
3 County Board races on April 1 ballot
Three County Board supervisors face opposition in the April 1 election. Competing for two-year terms are Thomas Kussow and incumbent Darrel Pagel in District 2, which covers part of Little Suamico; Joyce Stoegbauer and incumbent Vernon Zoeller in District 8, which covers parts of Abrams and Pensaukee; and David Rakowski and Terry Brazeau in District 27, which covers Brazeau and part of Spruce. Here are their profiles. District 2 TOM KUSSOW Age: 7
11 March 2014
Oconto Falls Police Department
An Oconto Falls man, 55, was cited for sex offenses on Feb. 18. An Oconto Falls girl, 16, was cited Feb. 20 for smoking. A Little Suamico man, 20, was cited for retail theft Feb. 20 after allegedly shoplifting at Radio Shack, 323 E. Highland Drive. An Oconto Falls man, 32, was cited Feb.
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