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The Antigo school board will try again to sell its student-built house, now located on the grounds of the high school.
Director of Business Services Mary Jo Filbrandt told the board of education Tuesday that the house, constructed by high school students over the course of the school year, failed to collect any bids following its first open house at the close of the school year.
The stars of the TORC Series—led by Wisconsin’s own father/son tandem of Johnny & CJ Greaves—return to Crandon Raceway for the annual running of the Brush Run, including the $25,000 Forest County Potawatomi Community Cup Race Saturday and Sunday.
Four of the Antigo school district’s aging elementary schools, which just a few years ago were targeted for closure, are getting new roofs this summer.
Work is underway now at Mattoon and East elementary schools, with West likely getting underway next week, and tonight, the board of education is expected to approve the bid for reroofing North Elementary School as well.
Mary Masterton’s worst day in a long time turned into maybe her best weekend ever.
Hours after vandals stole the books out of the Little Free Library located outside her home at Fifth Avenue and Hudson Street, donations of new titles were overflowing the tidy little box, causing Masterton to joke that “I need a branch now.”
An over-the-road truck driver who made an overnight stop in Antigo this weekend earned a free trip to jail early Saturday.
His arrest, sparked by a commotion at a north side retail store, was one of several brought on by the use of alcohol or other intoxicants.
Thousands and thousands of pancakes, eggs and containers of milk were served to a huge crowd that turned out Sunday for the Breakfast on the Farm program at Nagel dairy operation at highways B an V.
The crowd not only dined on scrambled eggs, pancakes, sausages, cheesy hashbrowns and an assortment of dairy products, they listened to music and lined up for wagons tours of the farm.
The Northernaires will bring their swinging sounds of the big band era to the White Lake Depot on Tuesday.
The band will perform for the first of three Summer, 2014 Music at the Depot events sponsored by the White Lake Area Historical Society. Music will begin at 6 p.m. on the depot platform.
It's moving into later June, with lingering thoughts of winter finally fading as temperatures nudge 80 degrees and farmers have taken to the fields.
Wisconsin growers and the crops they produce—especially potatoes—thrive on the region’s climate and on battling the odds and defeating what Mother Nature throws at them.
Two couples instrumental in the formation of the Ice Age Trail in Langlade County have been honored for their services.
Dr. Robert and Dede Cromer and Joe and Peg Jopek have been recognized by the Ice Age Trail Alliance for 40 years of volunteerism, developing and promoting the trail in Langlade County.
An opportunity to explore various lively arts activities brought scores of youngsters to City Park Thursday afternoon. The event was hosted by area arts groups and the Antigo Optimist Club and featured a wide variety of hands-on activities ranging from painting and acting to singing and strumming.
The Nagel family is issuing an invitation for everyone to visit its farm north of Antigo, perhaps brush shoulders with a few cows and enjoy the 2014 June Dairy Breakfast on Sunday.
The farm is located at the intersection of Highways B and V about seven miles north of Antigo where the Nueske family, from Gulliver’s of Wausau, will be cooking up scrambled eggs, sausages, pancakes, cheesy hashbrowns, hot donuts and serving ice cream, cheese, pure maple syrup to go with it...
A very interesting auction is set for Saturday in Antigo at one of the community’s historic buildings.
Gene and Judy Jacobus are clearing out their building at Sixth Avenue and Field Street, a stunning structure dating to the middle 1920s. It had been used for industrial purposes by the Wirig family, ssrved as a site to park its trucks before it was sold for use by Gene and Judy Jacobus.
The Langlade County Board added a master’s-level social worker and purchased the former McKenna beer distributing complex at an evening meeting Tuesday.
The session moved through the evening quickly handling the social worker and property purchase with dispatch.
Celebrate Arbor Day while helping to create a new park in the city’s central core on Wednesday.
Antigo Park and Recreation Director Sarah Repp is seeking volunteers to help plant 41 trees in the Railway Activity Park, an area slowly being carved from the former Chicago & Northwestern Railroad corridor between First and Third Avenues, just west of Edison Street.
The Antigo lively arts community is coming together Thursday at City Park for a special event geared toward the younger set, followed by an evening of music for all ages.
Explore Art in the Park will begin at 3:30 p.m. followed by Skip Jones & Friends at 5:30 p.m.
As it prepares for a major renovation of its flagship Park View Manor, the Antigo Housing Authority has been honored for its commitment to providing quality affordable housing to area residents.
The United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Agency cited the local organization for its work securing funding for the rehabilitation of two housing complexes—Lincoln Street Apartments and First Avenue Apartments.
On June 30, 1967, Sheryl Kapala’s mother carefully swaddled her newborn daughter and gently laid her on the front seat of an automobile parked outside a Waukegan, Ill, hospital.
And then she disappeared.
It could have been far worse.
That was the message from city of Antigo Fire Chief Jon Petroskey and Rural Fire Control Chief Neal Wozniak on Friday, after a propane tanker fire that closed down Highway 45 just south of the city limits for several hours.
Jeff Baehman earned honors as Antigo’s top dad in the Father of the Year contest sponsored by the Antigo/Langlade County Chamber of Commerce.
Baehman was selected on the basis of a letter written by his son, Blake.
An extreme case of renter neglect has grabbed the attention of the Antigo Police Department.
Chief Eric Roller said today that he will be conferring with the Langlade County District Attorney’s Office to discuss whether charges will be filed against a former Antigo family who left their rented home in utter shambles. It’s so bad, authorities said, that the Health Department has been contacted to determine if the residence is simply in need of a major cleaning or if something more drastic will need to occur.
An Indiana developer is making a major investment in the Antigo area with construction of the Pebble Ridge apartments on the north side of the city. Work on the buildings got started several weeks ago and with some luck it will be completed by January, 2015.
The crowd that turned out for the Antigo Elks Lodge Flag Day presentation and appearance by “Of Chorus!” were chilly as temperatures dropped to the upper 40s and a light mist fell on City Park Thursday evening.
Considering the elements, the crowd was surprisingly large.
An Antigo man who exposed himself to an eight-year-old girl in the bathroom of a local ball park was sentenced in Langlade County Circuit Court Wednesday to an extended term in prison.
Jacob Ball, 26, was ordered by Judge Fred Kawalski to a six and a half-year stay in the Wisconsin prison system for the act which occurred at Saratoga Park in June of 2013.
The Boys & Girls Club of Langlade County will host the third annual BE GREAT 5K Run/Walk Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. in Antigo.
The goal of the event is to help promote healthy lifestyles and take advantage of the Springbrook Trail.
The Antigo Common Council received an upbeat report from its auditor Wednesday, who found the city “in a good financial position, with no material weaknesses.”
Dave Maccoux of Schenk Government and Not-for-Profit Solutions presented the 2013 financial statement. which included a review of the fiscal health of the municipality’s various accounts.
REGIONAL MEETING—The Wood Technology Center at Northcentral Technical College in Antigo hosted the Lake States regional meeting for the Hardwood Manufacturers Association Wednesday, drawing over 100 individuals from the manufacturing sector to the campus.
A Polar man was sentenced in Langlade County Circuit Court Tuesday to a 60-day stay in jail for an incident dating to last summer.
Joshua Mathis, 30, pleaded no contest to two charges — possession of drug paraphernalia and an amended misdemeanor count of bail jumping. A felony count involving the possession of marijuana was dismissed in a plea agreement.
Wisconsin has fewer farms, but the ones that remain are growing in acreage and profitability.
According to the latest numbers from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, the state had 69,800 farms in 2013, down 6,600 from 2008 and unchanged from 2012.
The body of a 24-year-old Appleton man was recovered this morning from a town of Upham lake following a drowning early Tuesday evening.
The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification of family.
The summer Music in the Park series will take a patriotic tilt on Thursday.
After opening with jazz, followed by folk and then Dixieland on Monday, City Park will welcome Antigo’s own Of Chorus! along with representatives of the Antigo Elks Lodge, which will coordinate traditional Flag Day observances.
