Marinette News

Sandy Longley spent most of Sunday morning on her front porch, battling the heat and the occasional wasp as she watched somber preparations for the return of a local fallen soldier.

Theft: Someone stole six earrings, eight nose rings and 18 lip rings from a backpack in the 400 block of N. Division Street.

The Moving Wall opened Thursday in Marinette. The wall is a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in our nation's capital.

The man who launched the Sheboygan Area School District's house construction project will leave this month to lead another school district.

The annual 4th of July Festival in the City of Marinette is expected to attract unprecedented crowds, partly because it coincides with the visit of The Moving Wall Memorial to Vietnam veterans.

The city of Marinette will pay special tribute to our country's military heritage this Independence Day weekend, hosting a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from Thursday through Monday.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is taking the unusual step of keeping applications open through August - but only for students in 11 local counties.

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Moving Wall is making its way to Marinette for the Fourth of July.

Nominations are being accepted for the 10th annual Manufacturing Awards of Distinction.

A 50-year-old Oconto man was killed Sunday afternoon when his motorcycle crashed on a curve on Marinette County W in the town of Stephenson.

Forest County authorities are investigating an apparent drowning of a Marinette County man.

Kent A. Torkko, 38, W1596 Hwy. 64, Marinette, who has been charged with causing death by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle, had a bail bond hearing in Marinette County Circuit Court-Branch I before Judge David Miron on Tuesday, June 23.

Marinette County Breakfast on the Farm is scheduled for 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Darren and Lynn Rusch farm, seven miles west of Beaver on Marinette County P. Events will include breakfast, a pedal-tractor pull, pony rides, a baby animal area, bouncy rides, a polka band, face painting and tour of the farm.

State government in general, and the state budget in particular, came under heavy fire at the quarterly meeting of Marinette County Unit of Wisconsin Towns Association at Wausaukee Town Hall Thursday, June 18.

Omro police used a Taser gun to subdue a 35-year-old Ripon man who was causing a disturbance at a Spruce Street residence Thursday afternoon.

A regional economic development organization's efforts to position Wisconsin as a component supplier to the emerging wind energy industry just got a $25,000 boost.

Three 18 year old Marinette girls, Christi J. Branaham and Cherie Branaham, of 907 Madison Ave., Apt.

Isle Named New Garfield Principal Marinette School District's 18-month search for a new superintendent has ended.

The following students graduated from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, Green Bay, this past December.

As a specialty editor for the Food & Nutrition Center, Katherine Zeratsky helps you sort through the facts and figures, the fads and the hype to learn more about nutrition and diet.