Three Lakes News

Daily walleye bag limits for sport anglers will increase this Friday on 255 lakes in Wisconsin's ceded territory, including 99 lakes in Oneida County that will go from a two-fish limit to five fish.

NEKOOSA -- One of the longest school board tenures in state history came to a close recently, but Wayne Freeman has no intention of ending his public service work.

It's springtime, but you wouldn't know it in parts of northern Wisconsin. That's where utility crews worked to restore power to thousands of electricity customers as a spring storm dumped up to seven inches of wet, heavy snow.

Oscar W. Ottensmann, 92, formerly of 2225 N. 10th Street, passed away Monday afternoon, March 23, 2009 at the Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice.

Three Lakes entities will receive $50,000 in state grants to deal with the treatment of invasive milfoil in the Long Lake channel - hopefully avoiding closure to motorized boat traffic.

ANTIGO - The Marathon boys basketball team cruised into the Division 3 sectional final with a commanding 67-48 win over Three Lakes in Thursday's sectional semifinal at Antigo High School.

State superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster, who is leaving that post at the end of June, will serve as the next president of Nicolet College in Rhinelander.

Let me introduce you to Dusty Rhodes - a man every bit as interesting as his name.

The recent thaw is leaving some fishermen on thin ice. A truck went through the ice on Thunder Lake near Three Lakes on Wednesday, stranding the driver until firefighters could help him to shore.

After more than two years of wrangling, Oneida County officials have endorsed draft ordinance language that would allow Don Dal Ponte of Three Lakes to expand his exotic dance club.

The Vilas County News-Review won nine awards for writing, photography, page layout and advertising design in the 2008 Wisconsin Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest, it was announced last Friday.

When Jack Olkowski retired in 2003 from the school board in Three Lakes after 54 years of service, it was reported that he may have been the longest serving school board member in our nation's history - a true ...

Circuit Judge Neal A. Nielsen III was correct in prohibiting a jury from deciding whether a doctor needed a second informed consent from a patient who bled to death following surgery, an appellate court has ...

A small farm known as Buckwheat Acres just north of Three Lakes is the site of the first wind turbine in the town.

If you were feeling a little unusual last night, I know where to place the blame.

Goldridge Group of Eau Claire says it's committed to staying with the Northernaire development in Three Lakes despite a foreclosure action filed by M&I Bank.