Oconto County News

Sometimes we have to dig deep to find some good news on the economic scene. But we did uncover one item.

Re-enactor Christopher Goetz will impersonate a logging camp cook July 23 at the Holt and Balcom Logging Camp Museum in Lakewood.

Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt is now a member of the U.S. Conference of Mayors Advisory Board.

The seventh annual Carlsville Day Parade and Festival will be July 26. The day opens with a Family Fun Run/Walk at 8:30 a.m. at Schopf's Dairy View Farm on County I and will proceed up to Harbour Village ...

The Beautification Committee of the De Pere Area Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominations for the Garden of Merit awards.

Unemployment rates showed declines in May from April in the four county area of Marinette, Oconto, Florence and Forest according to figures released Wednesday, June 25, by the Department of Workforce ...

County Clerk Judy Ferris has announced she will not seek re-election this fall. She is serving her first term, succeeding Rose Stellmacher, who retired.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation Northeast Regional Office in Green Bay is announcing that work is beginning June 25 to reconstruct CTH J in Oconto County.

Chairperson, Leland T. Rymer called the June 19 meeting of the board to order at 9:00 a.m. 30 County Board members were present, 1 vacancy in Supervisor District 28.

Nearly 2,300 retirees and disabled veterans in Brown County who could receive the economic stimulus payment but have not yet filed a 2007 federal tax return have until October to do so.

Three regional nonprofit health organizations received part of $1 million in grants from Wisconsin's Universal Service Fund Telemedicine program to buy telecommunications equipment to promote advanced medical ...

Brown County Circuit Court Judge Donald Zuidmulder on Tuesday denied the request to retry David Bintz in the 1987 murder of Green Bay bartender Sandra Lison.

A recent analysis of federal salary records shows that $3 trillion a year is spent on the federal workers, but few receive little incentive bonuses as a reward for exemplary work.

New North's U.S. Highway 41 billboard promotes '1.2 million brighter futures,' but maybe they should change it to windier futures.

Uncle Sam spends close to $3 trillion a year on government, but the federal workers who actually run the government receive little in incentive bonuses as a reward for exemplary work, an Asbury Park Press ...

The village has set hours and regulations for its burn ordinance. A permit will be required to burn any patch larger than 10 feet by 10 feet on lands zoned for agriculture or estate residential.

Oconto Falls' dynamic three sport standout, Brynn Larsen, was named the Oconto County Reporter's 6th annual Senior Athlete-Scholar for the 2007-2008 season at the Oconto Kiwanis Club meeting last Wednesday at ...

The Algoma City Council on June 2 authorized the borrowing of $200,000 from the State Trust Fund Program for sanitary sewer work on the Perry Street/Birch Street/Cedar Corners reconstruction project and for a ...

During the first five months of 2008, Oconto County recorded only one traffic fatality - believed to be a record for that time frame to start any previous new year.

Updated: Exactly one year ago Saturday, a powerful tornado tore a 36 mile long path of destruction through Shawano County into northern Oconto county.