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A former Catholic clergyman, Thomas E. Ericksen, 71, who served in the early 1980s as the parish priest in the village of Winter, will plead no-contest to one count of first-degree sexual assault against a child and another second-degree sexual assault also against a child.
Brown County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) is seeking the public's assistance in identifying a suspect believed to be related to the "Felony Lane Gang" (FLG) style of bank fraud and identity theft. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in part identifies FLG as follows:
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Defense Attorney Ryan Anthony Reid told Ashland County Circuit Court Judge Kelly McKnight on Friday morning, May 3, that his client – Thomas E. Ericksen, 71 – a former Catholic priest accused of four counts sexual assault cases while he presided over St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Winter in …
Joanne L. Healy Mathews nee Ott, born on August 31, 1933, pass…
Gregory Scott Belanger, 67, of Danbury passed away on Monday, …
Allen Edward Brown, 79, of Shell Lake died on Friday, May 31, …
Muriel Vig of Minong passed away on Tuesday, June 4, 2019.
Michael E. Hansen, 67, of Green Bay passed away on Thursday, M…
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TREGO– EAA Chapter 631 will celebrate International Young Eagles Day at the Warbirds North Airport on Saturday, June 8. Free airplane rides will be given to youths aged 8 to 17 from 2 to 5 p.m. (weather permitting).
SPOONER– North Country Master Gardeners, University of Wisconsin- Extension, announces Kids in the Garden, a free summer program for youths 3 to 12 years of age. A parent or an adult is required to stay with children under 10 years of age.
I didn’t have a clue at the time that Dad was just humoring us; that he took us chasing rainbows only because we believed in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and the leprechaun guarding it – and not because he actually ever thought we were going to find those merry illusions.
The Spooner-Shell Lake area is in jeopardy of losing one of its greatest assets – Theatre in the Woods, and here’s hoping we don’t.
The three essential ingredients required for fascism to flourish are:
Hopefully by now, most people in Northwest Wisconsin are familiar with the troublesome zebra mussels that were discovered in Big McKenzie Lake in the fall of 2016. A lakeshore owner pulling out his dock found them and brought them to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resoures for verificat…
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