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Expanding opportunities for all-terrain vehicle riders will be the focus when the Antigo Common Council meets Wednesday.
The nine-member board will convene for its regular June session at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall.
For the first time in decades, Psalms and hymns rang out from the Estonian Evangelical Martin Luther Church on Sunday.
Volunteers from the Chicago Estonian community, including Honorary Vice-Consul Siim Soot, spent the weekend shoring up the crumbling structure, located off Highway J just outside Bloomville, and capped their successful project by holding a service under the trees.
Honorary survivor Arlette Puls credited those involved with Relay for Life and similar events for her ability to speak and be a part of the event at opening ceremonies for the annual fund-raiser Friday night.
In remarks that brought a few tears and some smiles, Puls thanked the “wonderful family” of survivors and caregivers involved in the event, which opened under sunny skies with a goal of raising $58,000 over the next 12 hours.
There are a number of news stories lurking in the background this week that will be featured in far more prominent venues in the Journal than Bit and Pieces.
But as I see it, getting a jump on things is just good journalistic fun.
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The first deals with an abandoned church in Gleason, but an important piece of history.
The hourly forecast calls for potentially cloudy skies, but little or no rain this afternoon and evening as participants in the Langlade County Relay for Life flock to Antigo High School’s Listle Field for the overnight fund-raiser.
Work for the overnight event, which concludes with a 7 a.m. closing ceremony Saturday, was already underway just after 8 a.m. this morning, with volunteers erecting huge tents for concessions and prizes, lights being strung, and members of Boy Scouts Troop 644 setting up their pup tents.
Family disturbances led to a pair of arrests at two rural Antigo homes Wednesday night.
A 19-year-old man was taken into custody on counts of disorderly conduct and bail jumping after sheriff’s deputies were advised of the man’s erratic behavior, including allegations that he had been yelling at several family members.
Bulldog pride was on full display Wednesday when the Antigo Middle School hosted a graduation ceremony for 172 eighth grade students.
The program mixed commencement pomp and circumstance with some more informal touches, including a video slide show and a picnic lunch for parents and friends on the school grounds.
Most people have—or nearly have—their gardens planted, and now is the time to begin enjoying the early harvest.
The Antigo Farmers Market will open for its seventh summer season on Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon, in the parking lot of the Country Store at Fourth Avenue and Superior Street downtown.
Antigo Director of Administrative Services Mark Desotell shows Marge and Don Gibson of Antigo’s Raptor Education Group Inc. the latest entry in the city’s banner program, a handsome rendering of Qushquluk, one of the center’s resident bald eagles and a survivor of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
Antigo Middle School eighth graders will close an important chapter in their educational journey on Wednesday.
Parents and family members are invited to join students for their graduation ceremony beginning at 11 a.m. in the Middle School gymnasium.
A quite unusual accident brought excitement to Antigo’s mid-section early Saturday afternoon when an out-of-control vehicle roared through a lot, accelerated over a retaining wall and plowed into a van before coming to rest in a residential lawn.
The Antigo Police Department is still investigating the incident which involved a vehicle operated by Peter S. Dziondziakowski, 60, of Bryant.
Alumnus of the Year Jeremy Doucette told Antigo High School seniors to dream big dreams and share their talents with their community in a heartfelt commencement address Sunday.
Doucette, a renowned scenic designer based in New York City, received his award from interim District Administrator Dr. Don Childs, highlighting a sometimes raucous and steamy ceremony celebrating the class of 2014.
Valedictorian B.J. McKinney warned that “the easy part is over” after he and 30 classmates received their diplomas at Elcho High School commencement ceremonies Saturday afternoon.
“It’s hard to believe we won’t be standing here next year,” McKinney said, noting that the ceremony marked the separation between two chapters of life.
Antigo Music in the Park, which has grown from humble beginnings into one of the most acclaimed summer music series in the northwoods, opens for its 2014 season Monday.
The series, based in the historic City Park bandstand, kicks off at 6:30 p.m. with the Antigo High School Jazz Band.
Just before Memorial Day, I had the opportunity to take a ride to Symco to decorate graves for the summer.
I’ve been on this outing before, and if it wasn’t for the terrible condition of Highway 110 west of Marion, it would be even more pleasant.
You travel through Amish country, have an opportunity to view their farms, the buggies, horses and a way of life. It is impressive.
Over half of the students in the Antigo school district qualify for subsidized meals, mirroring a statewide trend that finds more and more youngsters qualifying for the assistance.
At Elcho, three out of every five students can get subsidized meals. The White Lake school district offers free meals to all its students, and statistically seven in 10 youngsters are eligible for the program.
Antigo High School will holds its spring commencement exercises—which is traditionally filled with pomp and circumstance, music and a bit of fun—Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Sheldon Fieldhouse.
The Distinguished Alumnus Award will be presented to 1993 graduate Jeremy Doucette, who honed his theatrical and design skills in high school and went on to earn a master of fine arts in design at Rutgers University.
The Antigo High School basketball team didn’t come home with the state championship trophy, but in the yardstick that judges prep students, they are the true state champions.
The Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association recently released the Teen Academic All-State listing for the four divisions of teams and the Red Robins are the champions.
Everyone was smiling in Antigo High School’s Volm Theater Wednesday night.
In a springtime ritual that packs the theater, hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships and other awards were presented to the best and brightest of the class of 2014.
You never know when you may need to be—or need—a lifesaver.
That was the focus Wednesday, as Antigo firefighter/paramedics John Krueger and Adam Finn set out to educate as many people in the community as possible on the importance of a technique known as “hands-only CPR.”
Elcho High School will hold commencement ceremonies for 32 seniors on Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m. in the school gymnasium.
Valedictorian is Bruce “BJ” McKinney of Deerbrook.
On top of his hard work in academics, McKinney has played basketball and baseball, serving as captain of both, participated in Students Against Destructive Behavior and played percussion in the band.
Despite a later spring that followed a horrific winter, the farm community is moving ahead optimistically.
“We have about four days left,” Peter Schroeder said as a four-man crew loaded his planter with seed potatoes in a field east of Antigo Tuesday afternoon. The planting teams are running a little behind the traditional May farm calendar, but Schroeder is confident.
Congressman Sean Duffy stressed that “freedom isn’t free” in ceremonies honoring the nation’s fallen Monday on the Courthouse Square in Antigo.
The Seventh District congressman was the guest speaker at a poignant Memorial Day tribute that included readings, music and a wreath-laying by Mayor Bill Brandt.
Memorial Day is about remembering and tradition and the town of Norwood’s community of Phlox did both very well Monday.
A spirited parade, led by a local color guard, and program in the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery recalled fallen soldiers, especially those from southeastern Langlade County.
Members of the White Lake graduating class of 2014 will long remember the day tassels were turned and diplomas were granted, signaling an end to their high school careers. That is, if valedictorian Julia Boyd has anything to say about it.
“I know some of you are too busy posting silly cap and gown photos on Instagram to pay attention to this speech, but I suggest you do because I have some wise words for you,” she advised. “Don’t close up your smart phone, though. I want you to post this speech on Vine. And hashtag my name on Twitter. Do it. Now.”
Antigo is paying homage to its veterans in a dignified, yet very public, display.
With the blessing of the Bradley family, the city this week unveiled the latest in its series of downtown banner, an image of the World War II Iwo Jima flag-raisers and Antigo native John Bradley, one of the men immortalized in the Rosenthal photograph.
To the Antigo Journal:
I am enclosing something I have written about experiences during World War II in the European Theater. I have long felt that very few people living today have the slightest idea of what it was like to be a combat infantryman during the war...
Congressman Sean Duffy will be guest of honor when Antigo veterans organizations hosts Memorial Day observances on Monday.
Duffy, who represents the Seventh Congressional District which includes Antigo and a large swath of central and northwestern Wisconsin, will speak at the program slated at about 10 a.m. at the Veterans’ Memorial in the Courthouse square.
With about two weeks before the heavy machinery rolls in to start a reconstruction project on Highway B from the Highway 45 intersection east a little more than a mile to Chilie Road, Neva Corners residents are still busy.
They are still working to get things what they call “right.”
District Attorney Ralph Uttke Tuesday identified a South Hudson Street home as the “number one drug house in the county” as a slate of individuals, including the alleged “kingpin” of the operation, rolled before Judge Fred Kawalski on a slate of criminal charges.
Their arrests were what officials advise are “just the first of many” linked to an investigation which has been more than a month in the making by law enforcement from the Langlade County Sheriff’s Department and the Antigo Police Department.
