Almond News

Local municipalities will get help from the state Department of Transportation to help offset the cost of building and constructing local roads this year.

Rita King, Jim Knutson and Peggy Buckholt filed paperwork to run for three seats on the Tri-County Area School Board.

OK, change is a constant -- at work, at home, at the library, even library staff change occasionally.

Schierl Tire & Service Centers held the second annual Coloring Contest for its 2008 Holiday Card.

Source: Portage County Clerk of Courts Cynthia M. Baake, 51, Milladore, convicted of operating while intoxicated.

Lawrence Joseph Grant, 62, Almond, died peacefully at home Dec. 14, 2008, surrounded by his family.

Five communities in west central Wisconsin have applied for Brownfield Site Assessment Grants through the state Department of Natural Resources Remediation & Redevelopment Program.

The economy is in a downward spiral, but library use keeps rising. "We are definitely hearing reports from our libraries that circulation was up, programming was up," said Stefanie Morrill, associate director ...

The Rosholt branch of the Portage County Public Library is a 792-square-foot room in a building that was constructed circa the 1950s.

Raymond 'Cala' Sanchez Jr., 58, 8353 Division St., Bancroft, died at home Dec. 2, 2008, following a lengthy illness.

The Department of Natural Resources last week announced that it will ban all deer baiting and feeding in Marathon County starting Dec.

The Department of Natural Resources announced today that, in accordance with existing state law, a baiting and feeding ban on white tailed deer will go into effect on December 15, 2008 in Marathon and Wood ...

Deputies received report on Halloween that Dee's Bar and Grill, 1371 Division St., Almond, and the Almond Fire Department, 114 Main St.

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Vandalism/criminal damage to property: Nov. 12 around 10:55 p.m., sheriff's deputies received report of pumpkins being thrown off the overpass near 1-39 and Janick Circle, Hull.

Margaret A. Harvath, 72, 2241 Jefferson St., Stevens Point, died Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, at Saint Michael's Hospital, following a brief illness.

Fifty-six-year-old Pat Rychter's motto is this: 'Operate as if everyone out there could use us at any given moment.

The following trick-or-treat hours will be observed on Friday: Almond - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Amherst - 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Amherst Junction - 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Junction City - 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Milladore - 6 p.m. to 8 ...

Ruth A. Fuller, 90, of Plover, formerly of Bancroft, entered eternal rest Wednesday Oct.

The state's response to finding chronic wasting disease in a Portage County game-farm deer last Friday was so calm, orderly and pragmatic one almost misses the good ol' days of 2002 when we packed auditoriums ...