Local Antigo Headlines

District Attorney Ralph Uttke said today he would ask a judge to order an Antigo woman to pay travel costs for the medical care of young girl who acquired Hepatitis C after being forcibly injected with morphine. The request will officially be made during a sentencing hearing scheduled May 29 for 20-year old Nicole Bessert who pleaded guilty to two criminal charges. They include a felony count of physical abuse of a child, intentionally causing harm, and a misdemeanor charge of contributing to the delinquency of a child. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

The Langlade County Board of Supervisors will hold its April meeting Tuesday with a busy, but rather routine agenda. The meeting starts at 9 a.m. on the lower level of the Safety Building. The public is welcome to attend. The agenda offers a hint that something big is brewing. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

The foul weather the northwoods has been experiencing is too much, even for the fowls. The rain, sleet and snow falling from the sky—with more predicted for later this week—has birds literally dropping from the sky. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

It was hardly weather for a celebration Sunday, but fog and drizzle aside, the Maple Festival in Antigo was a tremendous success. The event was held at North Star Lanes by the Adamski family, who operate a commercial sugar bush southwest of Antigo. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

Ticks and the diseases they carry—a bane of gardeners, hikers and romping dogs throughout the northwoods—will be the focus of the Antigo Garden Club on Tuesday. Walt Wess, a true expert on the pest, will be the guest speaker for the program, which will begin at 5:45 p.m. in the St. Joseph Outpatient Center located on the Langlade Hospital campus. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

Antigo native Brian Wild brought a stern message to students at Pittsville High School: If you text while you drive, you could end up dead. Wild was among a cadre of police and transportation-safety advocates who presented the program as the kick-off to April’s National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. About 200 students attended. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

The Antigo Common Council honored two retiring members at their final meeting Wednesday. After the close of regular business, Mayor Bill Brandt presented a plaque to Fifth Ward alderman Brandon Zelazoski, who declined to seek re-election after two terms. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

A bizarre bank robbery in Shawano County Monday may have been tied to the sale of Girl Scout cookies. Darrin H. Church, 47, is charged in connection with the robbery at CoVantage Credit Union’s Shawano office just after 3:30 p.m. Monday Bank employees at CoVantage, where Church is a customer, told police Church had been in the bank three times that day before handing a teller a note demanding money. He left with $6,000 in cash. Full Story: Antigo Daily Journal

Weather woes are stalling the opening of Langlade Hospital’s new health and wellness center, but supervisor Greg Renfro said it will be worth the wait. The complex, formally known as the Center for Health & Performance, will likely open in late May or early June. Read More: Antigo Daily Journal

It didn’t take long for the first bank robbery in the city of Shawano to be solved. Darrin H. Church, 47, went to the Cash Tyme Store, located at 705 East Green Bay St., Monday afternoon where he told one of the store employees to give him all of the money. Read More: Antigo Daily Journal

The Department of Natural Resources/Conservation Congress spring hearing was a quiet event in Langlade County Monday at Antigo High School’s Volm Theater. The theater, which holds a crowd of about 500, was almost empty as Tim Otto, a conservation warden with the Antigo station, opened the session as hearing officer. Read More: Antigo Daily Journal

Antigo businessman George Shinners has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin. Shinners will help lead the Conservancy’s Wisconsin program in its efforts to conserve the state’s forests, prairies, lakes, rivers and wetlands over the next three years. Read More: Antigo Daily Journal

Bail was set at $1,000 cash and subsquently posted Thursday for a woman accused of allowing and allegedly joining area teens in ingesting illegal drugs at her rural Antigo home.

Tamie J. Yarie, 43, of N2448 Crestwood Road stands charged in Langlade County Circuit Court with four criminal offenses — the most serious, a felony, alleging she maintained a place for the purpose of trafficking drugs.

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The 2013 White Lake junior class will mark one of those “Moments in Time” Saturday as they celebrate prom, a spring ritual which is marked at high schools across the nation. It’s the first of the season in Langlade County and with Mother Nature refusing to give up on winter with hints that new snow may be on the horizon... Read More: Antigo Daily Journal