Oconto News

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The De Pere, Brown County, Oconto County and Oneida Nation public health departments next week will offer H1N1 flu vaccine clinics for high-risk target populations.

The Oconto County Health Department will be offering two separate H1N1 flu vaccination clinics.

For perhaps the first time in history, the county seat of Oconto no longer has the largest population of cities, towns and villages in Oconto County.

Wisconsin health officials have confirmed a swine-flu related death in Rock County.

The underdog Gillett girls won the Division 3 regional volleyball crown last Saturday, downing Bonduel, 25-19, 24-26, 20-25, 25-13 and 15-11. Alaena Wocking with 24 kills and 7 blocks, Sam Stycznski with 19 kills and 7 blocks, Ali McQuillan with 23 assists and Shannon Schall with 19 assists and 7 digs paced the Tigers.

OCONTO - Oconto High School will present the musical, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday in the school's John B. LeMay auditorium.

All the rain in the past week has drawn some fresh runs of brown trout and coho salmon into Lake Michigan and Green Bay tributaries.

Once each year, Nov. 11 is set aside to honor all the nation's veterans. We must not forget the men and women that sacrificed to ensure the freedoms we have today.

A woman in Oconto County has died because of complications related to swine flu, officials announced Tuesday as the state worked on prioritizing the vaccine.

The Northeastern Wisconsin Concert Band will present a concert at 3:30 p.m. today at Marinette High School.

The annual Fox Valley Symphony Youth Soloist Competition will take place Saturday, Jan.

An Oconto County man will serve five years in prison and 15 years on extended supervision for sexually assaulting a mentally disabled Kewaunee County girl.

Sending a text while driving is drawing the ire of lawmakers nationwide and Wisconsin could soon become the tenth state to ban texting while driving for teens under eighteen.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday afternoon marked the completion of the U.S. Highway 41 expansion project in Oconto County.

The Oconto Blood Drive will be held at Oconto High School on Monday, Oct. 26, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. for students and 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. for the community.

It appears almost a certainty that a primary election will be held in Oconto County in February of 2010 for the position of judge of the Oconto County Circuit Court.

Drug agents say it's one of the largest organized drug grows in Wisconsin. Nearly 80 law enforcement officials from nine agencies eradicated about 8,000 marijuana plants from 12 grow sites in the Navarino Wildlife Area in eastern Wisconsin Tuesday.

COLEMAN - Ashlie Zeutzius had 19 kills, Brooke Arndt had 14 kills and Trista Fick had 29 assists as Wausaukee defeated Coleman 25-27, 26-24, 25-14, 25-14 on Monday in a Marinette-Oconto Conference girls volleyball match.

Who: Z-Man Quick history: He was known as Zach Cleven when he started his singing career in show choir at Green Bay East High School.