Whiting News

Portage County Board of Adjustment, 4 p.m., Conference Room 5, County Annex, 1462 Strong Ave.

Efforts to reduce the amount of energy at its new wastewater treatment facility have paid off for the village of Whiting.

Portage County Board of Adjustment, 7:30 a.m., leave County Annex, 1462 Strongs Ave.

Despite a 30 percent decrease in net sales for the quarter, a boost in orders has NewPage officials confident the papermaker will not need to take as much downtime in the fourth quarter as previously announced.

A 65-year-old Stevens Point woman was airlifted Sunday afternoon after an accident in Whiting near the intersection of Post Road and Porter Road.

A central Wisconsin landmark is scheduled to be torn down this coming week, but before it goes, some local authorities are putting it to good use.

Town of Hull Board, 4:30 p.m., Town Municipal Building, 4550 Wojcik Memorial Drive.

A lack of information and a bad economy are two possible reasons why outlying towns and villages defeated Tuesday's school district referendum.

Voters in the Stevens Point Area Public School District rejected a $23.1 million, three-year spending proposal Tuesday.

Overheated flammable canisters stored next to a water heater in a basement started a fire early Tuesday morning in Whiting, Whiting Fire Chief Dan Kontos said.

Arson has been determined as the cause of a fire early Saturday morning at 2141 Jefferson Street, Stevens Point Assistant Fire Chief Bob Finn said.

Doug Schlei, 26, of Whiting, doesn't have any children, but he and his wife, Autumn, are thinking about it.

MIAMISBURG, Ohio - NewPage Corp. has sold more than 1 million tons of chain-of-custody-certified paper since 2006, the company recently announced.

Every student was either singing, dancing or playing an instrument to a song from Guinea, a country in west Africa, during Clara Kimmet's sixth-grade general music class at Madison Elementary School earlier this week.

When nobody else was willing to take a chance on Jay Arend's business plan, CAP Services wasn't prepared to let it simply go away.

Salt Supply Concerns Unusually heavy amounts of snow the past two winters led to a shortage of salt and drove the prices sky high....and may leave road crews in a slippery spot.

NewPage Corp. has notified state labor officials it plans to idle one of the Whiting paper machines in December, laying off 75 to 100 employees.

An area employer says it expects to temporarily lay off as many as 100 employees in December.

It's scary not to know what's going to happen with your job. That's what NewPage employees at the Whiting mill are facing According to a release from the Miamisburg, Ohio-based papermaker on Monday, the company expects to indefinitely shut down its No.

It's still unclear whether the NewPage paper mill here will be affected by market-related downtime announced this week by its parent company.