Minocqua News

Authorities are investigating the death of a bow hunter up in the Minocqua area.

Officers at the Minocqua Police Department are reporting the death of a 66 year old bow hunter.

Congratulations to Kathy Herman of Stevens Point. Kathy is our eighth Party Pack contest winner and she won a night's stay in Minocqua at the Black Bear Bar with some blues music to boot.

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* Brittney Miilu, daughter of Thomas and Kathy Miilu, Wausau, will receive one of the prestigious Provost's Awards beginning this fall at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. The Provost's Award is a $1,500 scholarship that's renewable for three additional years for qualifying students.

Super-regional Per Mar Security is topping off a year where its residential sales outpaced recent years with the acquisition, announced this week, of Alarm Co North Security, a boutique, high-end, residential alarm company based in Minocqua, Wis.

Wisconsin long has been thought of as a premier destination for pursuing trophy muskies in the United States.

Several hundred residents in northern Wisconsin will be waking up in the dark. WPSC says 10,000 people in northern Wisconsin were without power at some point on Monday.

Thousands of Wisconsin Public Service Corp. customers remain without power this afternoon because of heavy winds and rain in the area.

Wind and rain have cut power to thousands of customers in northern Wisconsin. Wisconsin Public Service Corp., the utility that serves the region, says strong winds have causes trees and branches to hit power lines.

As part of his a oeGrow Wisconsina initiative to invest in Wisconsina s infrastructure and stimulate our statea s economy, Governor Jim Doyle recently signed a $469,000 contract to improve 1.7 miles of US 51 between Front Street and 3rd Avenue in Minocqua and Woodruff.

Brenda Mrotek is accustomed to swings in business at Packerland Plus, where jerseys, shirts and hats of beloved - or reviled - sports teams line the walls and sit on racks in her downtown Minocqua shop.

MINOCQUA - Wisconsin's $13 billion tourism industry is vulnerable to fickle conditions and features a diverse range of businesses, making for mixed results during the national recession.

MINOCQUA - Bosacki's Bar and Restaurant, an iconic tourism spot downtown with docks on Lake Minocqua, is facing foreclosure and its owner owes thousands in taxes to the state and Oneida County.

Brenda Mrotek is accustomed to swings in business at Packerland Plus, where jerseys, shirts and hats of beloved - or reviled - sports teams line the walls and sit on racks in her downtown Minocqua shop.

A projected decline in the number of people traveling this Labor Day weekend because of a change in the school calendar played itself out in various ways in the Minocqua area with some businesses noticing fewer people and others holding strong.

The MacKenzie Environmental Education Center near here will again be home to two rare Canada lynx thanks to a fund raising effort spearheaded by the director of the Poynette Public Library and local school children Two Canada lynx kittens will make their public 'debut' on Wednesday, Sept.

NEW YORK For the last month, the bi-weekly Lakeland Times of Minocqua, Wis., has been trying to obtain the names of unionized employees in the state's Department of Natural Resources .

Minocqua business owners and residents are expected to show up in force this Thursday for an informational hearing in Three Lakes on the state's revised shoreland protection rules, NR 115.

The Wisconsin Rapids Girls Cage Club will hold tryouts at the Lincoln High School Fieldhouse on Aug.