Whiting News

Portage County Solid Waste Management Board, 4 p.m., Conference Room, Portage County Material Recovery Facility, 600 Moore Road, Plover.

Allen T. Haga, 79, of 2211 Maplewood Drive, Plover, died Friday, Dec. 18, 2009, at Kennedy Park Medical and Rehabilitation Center in Schofield.

Today Portage County Board of Adjustment, 7:30 a.m., leave County Annex building, 1462 Strongs Ave.

Tri-County School District Differentiated Instruction/Professional Development Committee, 3:10 p.m., District Office Conference Room, 227 S. West St., Plainfield.

Edith and Marvin Pozorski bought a sled 53 years ago for their boys when they were small.

Edith and Marvin Pozorski bought a sled 53 years ago for their boys when they were small.

It's not too late to join Girl Scouts Girl Scout troops in your community would like to expand their circle of friends by inviting all girls in kindergarten through 12th grade to join today.

It's been 68 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor. As those years have passed, fewer survivors -- and their memories of that day -- remain.

Tomorrow River School District Safety Committee, 1 p.m., District Board Room. Agenda includes Code Red update, Community Emergency Plan, lock down schedule, and school emergency management/crisis plan.

Twenty-nine Portage County supervisor and board member positions in seven villages and two towns will be up for election April 6. The time period to circulate nominating petitions for County Board members began Dec.

It's been 68 years since the attack on Pearl Harbor. As those years have passed, fewer survivors - and their memories - of that day remain.

A one-story home at 1230 Spruce Drive in the village of Plover was destroyed by fire Thursday night, Plover Fire Department Captain Dale Garski said Friday.

MIAMISBURG, Ohio - For the sixth consecutive year, the U.S. Postal Service will use NewPage paper produced in central Wisconsin for its winter holiday stamps, the papermaker announced today.

For some kids, nothing is more scary than getting a shot. But students at Plover-Whiting and Madison elementary schools took the prospect of sharp needles in stride Tuesday as they received their first H1N1 vaccinations.

Federal stimulus money awarded this year to the villages of Amherst and Whiting provided the financial boost needed to fund the construction of a new Village Hall and two water treatment projects.

Joseph Theo, a student at the Charles F. Fernandez Center for Alternative Learning, told the Stevens Point Area Public School District School Board on Monday that closing the school as a means to address the district's budget shortfall is not the answer.

Theft: At 1:45 p.m. Tuesday near the 700 block of Franklin Street, officers received report of the theft of cash from a residence.

Residents in many Portage County towns and villages will see little or no increase in their municipal taxes next year despite rising costs and financial constraints officials say are making it hard to pay bills.

Portage County Board of Adjustment, 4 p.m., Conference Room 5, County Annex, 1462 Strong Ave.

Efforts to reduce the amount of energy at its new wastewater treatment facility have paid off for the village of Whiting.