Tomahawk News

Twenty elementary school students in Tomahawk took home something special in their backpacks last week.

A journey separating loved ones for the past year is now complete. Saturday, about a hundred soldiers from the Wisconsin National Guarda s 951st Sapper Engineer Company returned from Afghanistan.

TOMAHAWK -- Blaze-orange clad hunters eager for the season opener today gobbled up thousands of venison patties Friday.

Soldiers from the Wisconsin National Guard's 951st "Sapper" Engineer Company are returning from Afghanistan.

MERRILL -- The community has come together to help the HAVEN shelter come closer to funding its new building.

More than half of the members of the 951st Sapper Co. based in Rhinelander and Tomahawk are back on American Soil.

Lincoln County deputies cited two motorists last week for driving more than 100 mph in separate incidents.

Most of the members of a northern Wisconsin-based Army National Guard Engineer Company have returned to the U.S. after a dangerous mission in Afghanistan.

Most of the members of a northern Wisconsin-based Army National Guard engineer company have returned to the United States after a dangerous mission in Afghanistan.

The Lincoln County Board of Supervisors approved the 2010 budget Tuesday morning in what is probably record time, ending a process that started in February as the body looked for $1.3 million in cuts.

TOMAHAWK -- A new program in Lincoln County will help families learn ways to control their finances and stretch their dollars.

When I tracked down our TV star this week, he was squirting lime juice onto a raw kingfish heart, then popping it into his mouth.

There are haunted houses, Halloween skating parties and ghost tours. There are costume contests, live music and Halloween specials in just about every nightclub, bar and tavern.

People interested in volunteering to help locate and count gray wolves and other forest carnivores in the coming year can learn how at a series of upcoming training sessions.

The Rev. Joy Mortensen-Wiebe is looking for congregations in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's East-Central Synod of Wisconsin to define mission.

Lincoln County 4-H celebrated National 4-H Week from Oct. 4 to 10. Local 4-H clubs placed promotional displays throughout the county.

Richard 'Dick' Taylor, 65, of Merrill, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital.

Details were sketchy at press time, but fire departments from the towns of Lincoln, McMillan, Rock and Cameron responded to the blaze.

SFC Lyle Scott Spurgeon, a Phelps native and combat engineer with the 951st Sapper Company, was injured last Friday during an attack that killed a Rhinelander soldier.

Sergeant Ryan Adams of Rhinelander died Friday in Afghanistan after enemy forces attacked his vehicle, using grenade fire.