Birnamwood News

Edgar native Shay Lehman was named to the 2009 College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-District Five College Division Football Team second team.

Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School is starting the 2009-10 school year by taking a positive approach to improving student behavior by implementing a system called Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports.

Brad Jozwiak never takes off the orange bracelet he put on after Nels Jacobson was killed by a drunken driver four years ago.

Of all the breast cancer support group sessions Weston resident Jane Blakewell has attended, one clearly sticks out in her mind.

Richard and Dolores Diestler recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at Homestead Inn with family and friends.

Doug Kunst bowled his way to the top of the standings at Chet & Emil's in Birnamwood last week.

We have received death notices for the following: Mitchell D. Allen, 46, Wausau, died Tuesday, Sept.

A lieutenant from the sheriff's department says a 4-year-old boy remains in the hospital on Tuesday morning after a one-vehicle rollover crash in eastern Marathon County.

Two people are injured following a one vehicle rollover in Eastern Marathon County.

The Girl Scouts of the Northwestern Great Lakes will host a fall registration event from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at Birnamwood Elementary and Middle School, 337 Main St., Birnamwood.

It was an early night at the Langlade County Speedway Friday. The events that must be done by 11 p.m. have skirted that hour for years, but this week the action was pretty well over an hour before the witching hour.

WESTON -- By Christmas, the Weston area will have expanded dentistry and eye care.

A Marathon County jury has found Kevin Cherek of Hatley guilty of homicide by drunken driving in the death of his friend Drew Czerwonka.

A Marathon County jury has found Kevin Cherek of Hatley guilty of homicide by drunken driving in the death of his friend Drew Czerwonka.

A Marathon County jury has found Kevin Cherek of Hatley guilty of homicide by drunken driving in the death of his friend Drew Czerwonka.

Donna Pietz of Birnamwood had some unexpected competition from her family Saturday at the All American Apple Pie Contest.

A 21-year-old Hatley man faces 15 years in prison for killing his friend and former classmate in a 2008 drunken driving crash.

The trial is under way today for a 21-year-old Hatley man accused of driving drunk and killing his passenger in a single-vehicle rollover in February 2008.

Even without the well-known fireworks display, St. Florian's Catholic Church's picnic still attracted several hundred people Saturday evening.

Florence E. Weden, 84, Aniwa, died Saturday, July 25, 2009, at Mount View Care Center, Wausau.