Cutting positions to eliminate $1.7 million in red ink from the 2026-27 Shawano School District budget continues to draw objections from people to the Shawano School Board.

The board voted in February to cut positions to bring the district in alignment with its own student-to-staff ratios after learning that existing expenditures would leave it well in debt when the time comes in October to approve its final budget.

The Shawano School Board approved more than $500,000 in raises for employees at every level April 27, but some bristled at the idea of approving them all in one stroke.

All employees will be receiving a 2.63% cost-of-living increase. Support staff will also receive an additional 0.37% increase to round out the wage hike to 3%. Administrators will only see the cost-of-living increase.

It took almost four years for Michael Ingold’s homicide case to come to trial, but it took just a few hours for a jury to return April 28 and say he wasn’t guilty in Sheila Laudon’s death.

Plans to expand a natural gas pipeline in Michigan and Wisconsin, including through Shawano and Oconto counties, is drawing a lot of interest from affected residents.

Shawano County will sell two properties it foreclosed on to the village of Gresham, while the fate of two more foreclosed pieces of land remains unclear.

The first property, previously owned by Ralph Lange, had taxes, interest and miscellaneous expenses dating back to 2016 that totaled $113,264.49. It will be sold to the village for that amount.

Today’s assessed value is $12,400.

Federal jurors found an Oconto Falls doctor guilty on three counts of producing child pornography and single counts each of possession of child porn and transporting child porn.

After a three-day trial in late April, Dr. Isaias R. Cupino Jr., 66, was also found not guilty on two other counts of producing child porn and one count of possessing it.