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Jason and Crystal Moore broke ground for their new home Tuesday, flanked by volunteers and associates of Habitat for Humanity of Langlade County.
“It’s amazing,” Moore said. “It’s neat to know you are part of doing something you will be living in for the rest of your life.”
An exceptionally built, three-bedroom home, with special financing available, is going on the block this weekend.
The Antigo school district is holding an open house Friday and Saturday at the construction house built by high school students. Hours are 3 to 6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday.
An Antigo woman who has already served over a year in the county jail while awaiting prosecution and sentencing on a series of crimes, including those linked to her involvement in the local drug craze, will remain behind bars.
Langlade County’s Veterans Memorial Park will host the second annual Splash-N-Dash, a unique silent sports event that showcases the rugged and scenic terrain of the park’s trails and lakes, Saturday.
Considered an aquathon, Splash-N-Dash features a continuous, two-stage race involving swimming followed by running.
City maintenance projects and continued work on creating all-terrain vehicle access from the city to northside trails leads the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting of the Antigo Common Council.
The governing body will convene at 6 p.m. in the chambers at City Hall.
Looking ahead to future maintenance projects, aldermen are expected to approve a contract with MSA Professionals Inc. for $29,700 for the design and bidding phase for replacing the water main located along Second Avenue to Langlade Road, along with water valves at the treatment plant.
Superheroes come to Antigo Wednesday, when Antigo Youth Theater 2014 presents “The Quest of the Social League.”
Showtime is 7 p.m. in the high school’s Volm Theater.
The half-hour mini-musical was produced in a whirlwind fashion by students involved in the district’s summer school program.
An Antigo man was arrested Sunday for his fourth offense of drunken driving as the result of a traffic stop conducted just before 1 a.m. at Seventh Avenue and Superior Street.
A telephone tip that the driver may have been intoxicated initially sparked reason for the 12:46 a.m. stop.
The Fourth of July holiday ended with plenty of salutes on Saturday evening.
Fireworks were exploding in a number of communities and villages from another huge celebration of Independence Day.
Friday night offered a variety of opportunities for great fireworks photos, such as this one taken by Jim Martinsen of Antigo.
The Elcho American Legion served as color guard to kick off Antigo's Fourth of July parade.
Antigo’s community picnic was celebrated Thursday evening with another huge turnout at City Park dining on the great Salm Partners sausages, a patriotic show featuring “Of Chorus!” and Antigo Boy Scouts, and then the program was turned over to Hip Pocket, a popular regional band that has become a favorite of the Music in the Park crowd.
Swimmers and visitors at the Clara R. McKenna Aquatic Center are breathing a bit easier—and healthier—due to a just-completed improvement project funded entirely through donations.
This week, Jeanne Lucht of the Remington Foundation presented a $100,000 donation, completing a project to replace the costly and obsolete air handling equipment at the indoor pool complex.
Langlade County is welcoming holiday visitors in droves for the long Independence Day weekend with parades, fireworks and special events, and everyone is being urged to have an outstanding time as they enjoy the area’s lakes and trails.
But along with the revelry comes cautions over safety, especially around that most cherished of July Fourth traditions—fireworks.
Langlade County’s three public school districts come out on the losing end on state aid payments, according to estimates released by the Department of Public Instruction this week.
While more than half of Wisconsin public school districts, 225, will receive more general aid in the 2014-15 school year than they did for the 2013-14 school year, Antigo, Elcho and White Lake are among the 197 districts that will see declines in the amount of money provided by the state for education.
Two staff members at the Blackhawk Girl Scout Camp likely relied on their scouting skills after being lost in the woods in that sprawling area south of Elton overnight.
Camp staff reported the two female staff members, ages 17 and 21, decided to go for a night hike on familiar trails, but got turned around.
A construction project on County Highway B, that has caused a stir in the Neva Corners area for the last year, is about to get started Monday.
While utility contractors have been in the area preparing wires and fuel lines, the road construction portion of the project will be moving ahead with the segment set to be completed during the summer running from Highway 45 to Chillie Road, which passes the busy Neva Corners intersection.
It promises to be a blast—of fireworks, music, food and fun—across the northwoods this weekend.
The long Independence Day weekend will stretch holiday celebrations from Thursday night’s community picnic at the bandstand right through the final pitch Sunday at the Phlox softball tournament.
The strawberries are huge, juicy and sweet at Merry’s Berries, and they are ready for picking right now.
Andy and Elizabeth Merry threw open the gates on their berry patch northeast of Antigo on Monday, and by this morning the word had gotten out that this may be an exceptional year with a little help from Mother Nature.
There will be a grand celebration in City Park on Thursday, great music and food, and a healthy dose of patriotic fervor.
The annual picnic in the park will feature music by the show band Hip Pocket, a popular regional act featuring Antigo’s own Joe Fittante.
Members of the Frisch family gathered around a model of the greenhouse that marked its 100th anniversary in Antigo Saturday. From the left are Jean Hubatch, Margaret Gresch, Jim Frisch, Joanne Austin, Julie Schulz and Elvera Frisch.
The Antigo, Elcho and White Lake school districts are among 128 statewide sharing in a new $5 million pot of transportation aid.
The Department of Public Instruction is distributing the funds to districts with above- average student transportation costs under the first year of the high cost transportation categorical aid.
Seven-year-old Aaron Welch is a fighter.
The youngster, badly burned in an accident, is back home again after grueling treatment at a Madison burn center, and will be the focus of a benefit carnival Sunday.
It seems that bears are just about everywhere in the Antigo area, and they tend to stand out when they appear in residential and business districts of the city.
On Thursday afternoon, an employee at BMO Harris Bank at Fifth Avenue and Clermont Street saw one saunter past one of the windows, crossing Fifth Avenue and then head for the area of the McCormick-Klessig and Associates insurance building in the 500 block of Clermont Street.
City of Antigo crews this week removed the worn awning and facade from the former Java Junction located in the 700 block of Fifth Avenue, part of a repair project that the city hopes will make the structure more attractive to investors.
Linda Kunda of Bowler is served a caramel mocha latte by Brenna Osborne at The Thirsty Soul this morning, a couple hours before the kick off of downtown’s Market Street Day.
An Antigo woman who has already served more than three months in custody while racking up multiple criminal offenses over a near three-year period was ordered here Wednesday to spend an additional 30 days in jail.
The ruling for Brittany L. Maguire, who is also listed in court records as both Brittany Krause and Brittany Stripling, came as the result of a complicated plea agreement reached between District Attorney Ralph Uttke and defense attorney Jim Connell.
It’s a long-standing family business that, over the course of 100 years, has brought joy and solace to thousands.
Frisch Greenhouses will celebrate its 100th anniversary on Saturday, with an ice cream social from 1 to 4 p.m.
Dr. Robert Warren Cromer, of Antigo, died on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at Aspirus Wausau Hospital at the age of 88.
He was born Jan. 31, 1926 in Milwaukee, a son of the late Earle Hayward and Myrtle (Erdmann) Cromer. He married Dede Summ on June 8, 1957 at Peace Lutheran Church in Antigo, and she survives.
Changes are being made at the Antigo Sears store in the North Town Centre on Antigo’s north side.
Long-time Hayward retailers Kerry and Angie Walters purchased the business earlier this year and are in the process of transforming the store.
The Northernaires Heritage Orchestra performed Tuesday evening on the platform at the White Lake Historical Society’s railroad station and museum site. The Northernaires played all of the classics for the evening that is part of a three-program summer schedule.
