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STORIES OF THE WEEK

 

NEWS

Lassee suspends U.S. Senate campaign - State Senator Frank Lasee (R-Depere) announced this week that he is suspending his campaign for US Senate and issued the following statement: >>FULL STORY

Low county jobless rate bodes well for economic development - The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development recently released the December 2011 unemployment rates for counties in Wisconsin and Calumet County has the third-lowest unemployment rate in the state. >>FULL STORY

COMMUNITY

Public invited to review county resource management plan - Calumet County residents are invited to review and comment on the draft Calumet County Land and Water Resource Management Plan, 2012-16. >>FULL STORY

East meets West - Resembling from a distance Neanderthal creatures clad in mounds of animal furs to protect them from the cold, two dozen figures appear from a thick fog covering Lake Winnebago, shuffling on the snow-covered ice toward the west shore near Neenah. >>FULL STORY

Brown county accepting tree orders - The Brown County Land and Water Conservation Dept. is now accepting orders for evergreen, hardwood and shrub seedlings. All seedlings are bare root and are sold in bundles of 25. >>FULL STORY

OUTDOORS

Local conservation club to host hunter safety course Winnebago Eastshore Conservation Club in co-operation with the Chilton Optimist Club will sponsor a Wisconsin Hunter Education and Firearms Safety Course beginning a 6:30 P.M. Sunday March 25, 2012. >>FULL STORY

Outdoors with Bob With a little over a week to go, sturgeon spearers are looking at ice conditions with some apprehension. As of last week at this time, only the Pipe Fishing Club had trees out and ice thickness was 9-14 inches at the 1/10 mile markers. >>FULL STORY


SPORTS

Tigers basketball statys on track with win over Zephyrs - With another win, this time over St. Mary Central 57-54 on Jan. 24, the Chilton boy's basketball team extended its winning streak to three games thus continuing the battle toward finishing the season with a winning record. >>FULL STORY

Slow starts result in one win, one loss - The 7-6 Stockbridge girl's basketball team started the week off well, winning against Kohler 51-39 on Jan. 27, but on Jan. 29 the Sheboygan Area Lutheran Crusaders defeated the Indians 58-26. >>FULL STORY





A Calumet County Board Halloween
Written by Jim Lundstrom, Editor   
Thursday, 03 November 2011 15:04
It was Frankenstein vs. Dracula at the annual budget meeting; Frankenstein won
Day One: Halloween
By Jim Lundstrom
Unless you are a political junkie, county board meetings generally are not spectator sport, but you expect a good turnout when it comes to the most important county meeting of the year – the annual budget talks, when elected officials etch in stone how they will spend your hard-earned tax dollars for the coming year.
The Calumet County Board's annual budget meeting opened the morning of Oct. 31 to a packed house in the basement of the Calumet County Courthouse. The gallery was crowded on this gloomy Halloween for the main item in the 2012 budget – to build or not to build a new Highway Department facility.
The question took up most of the day, and it turned out to be so fitting that it fell on Halloween because it got a little bit scary and more than a few creatures raised their ugly heads.
But most symbolic of all, the board drove a stake through the heart of the constantly reviving concept of a new highway building and instead embraced a Frankenstein solution – add new parts to the old body to make it live again!