The Best Western Crandon Inn & Suites in Crandon has received Best Western Hotels & Resorts Chairman’s Award, the brand’s highest honor for outstanding quality standards. The Chairman’s Award recognizes the Best Western hotels that score in the top 5 percent of more than 2,100 North American properties, with respect to cleanliness and maintenance inspection…

Bobbie Samme’ Counselors, faculty and staff were on hand Saturday at Florence High School to offer comfort and consolation to those in need after the tragic death of two of its students on Friday morning. According to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office, two Florence teenagers were killed on their way to work in an early…

Bobbie Samme’ At first glance, Harold and Deb Bell seem like your typical married couple enjoying their retirement. However, once you meet and get to know them both a little better, you will have a greater appreciation and respect for what love really is and just how strong it can be. The Bells, who live…

       Dorothy Kegley The Forest County Task Force received a report from the community on the morning of June 20 that a suspicious car in Mole Lake might be selling drugs out of the vehicle. A short time later the car was seen in the City of Crandon. Officers initiated surveillance and determined…

Dorothy Kegley Forest County Board Chairman Tom Tallier updated the county board on a letter he had received from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The certified letter informed the county that the Potawatomi Community has a request into the bureau to change the status of tribal owned land to trust land. The 184 acres of…

Bobbie Samme’ You may see the signs popping up soon – red, white and blue notices that indicate the home of a veteran with the request to “please be courteous with fireworks.” The signs are the work of a Facebook-launched nonprofit, Military With PTSD, founded in 2010 by Shawn Gourley, whose husband, Justin, served in…

Sarah Giddings Representatives from the Veteran’s Administration Hospital network were in Florence June 13 for a town hall style meeting. Brad Nelson, Public Affairs Officer from the Oscar G. Johnson VA Medical Center in Iron Mountain led the meeting and gave an overview of services and programs available to area veterans. Emphasized foremost among services…

The 12th Annual Ride for Research, an annual motorcycle ride in the Wabeno area for dual sport bikes, took place on June 9 and 10 with the goal of raising money to support breast and colon cancer research at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. It is a national AMA event that attracts an…

Dorothy Kegley Patti Kirker’s failure to appear in Forest County Circuit Court for her sentencing hearing on May 31 resulted in a nationwide warrant being issued for her arrest. She was found guilty following a jury trail in March of five felony drug charges. She was facing up to a sixty-year sentence. Against the wishes…

U.S. News & World Report, a nationally recognized publisher of education news and information, announced the 2018 Best High Schools. The U.S. News Best High Schools rankings offer the most comprehensive information available on public high schools in the U.S. The 2018 rankings are based on the profiles of more than 20,500 high schools and…