It took all four quarters for the Oconto Falls High School girls basketball team to take care of Denmark to open Bay Conference play Thursday in Denmark. The Panthers won 48-39 after outscoring the Vikings 14-6 in the final period. “Denmark came out in a half-court trap,” Oconto Falls coach Michael Kaczmareck said.

There were bound to be people unhappy with the WIAA conference realignment proposal. Marinette and Oconto Conference officials, though, didn’t think it would be them. After the M&O went untouched in early drafts of the proposal, Oneida Nation High School was added to the conference in the latest plan, approved by the WIAA Board of Control by a vote of 6-2 Dec.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Dec. 9 for a two-story medical office building that will expand health care services on the Community Memorial Hospital campus. The 28,000-square-foot facility will offer specialty medical services such as orthopedic and podiatry care, urology, oncology and pain management.

At 10:03 a.m. Dec. 14, a car driven by an Oconto man sustained minor damage after leaving U.S. 141 north of U.S. 41 in the town of Abrams. The vehicle struck a guard rail, then entered the ditch and sustained minor damage. At 1:45 p.m. Dec. 14, a female from Lena was southbound on U.S. 141 south of County Road A in the town of Lena when her vehicle skidded on the snow-covered roadway, entered a ditch and struck a highway fence.

The school calendar approved by the Oconto Falls School Board for 2014-15 includes a revised schedule for parent-teacher conferences and one less day for face-to-face instruction. The board on Dec. 9 looked at two proposals for the school calendar and chose a fall schedule that expands parent-teacher conferences to allow for additional parent access. Fall parent-teacher conferences are scheduled after school on Oct. 27 and 28 and from 8 a.m.

The boiler room of Oconto Falls Elementary School may seem like an unusual place for a ribbon cutting, but the symbolism was perfect because the upgraded heating system was getting a good workout on Dec. 9, due to the frosty temperatures outdoors. The heating system at that building, along with the heating systems in several other district buildings, received major upgrades as part of an energy-savings project coordinated by Ameresco.

The future of a low-income housing unit in the village of Suring remains uncertain, even after months of efforts to find a remedy to substandard living arrangements. The Suring Non-Profit Housing Corporation owns Pioneer Villa Apartments at 415 N. Mill St., Suring, where residents have endured a leaky roof, cockroach infestation and overall building deterioration in recent years. Speaking at the Suring Village Board meeting Dec.

Oconto County officials hope to smooth over the concerns of a citizen’s group in Oconto that objects to the construction of a law enforcement center in the heart of the city. The Oconto County Board of Supervisors voted in September to build the center in a downtown residential area north of the courthouse and reaffirmed the vote in October, despite objections from Oconto Mayer Victoria Bostedt and former Mayor Don Nerenhausen. Members of a citiz

They had waited a long time for this day. The family of Chad McLean finally had the answer they sought for almost 16 years. An Oconto County jury on Dec. 10 found Peter Hanson guilty of the murder of McLean, a Green Bay teen who visited Oconto County with a friend on Feb.