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Langlade Hospital’s Grand Opening Set For Friday
The Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph and Aspirus Partners are welcoming their employees and friends from northern Wisconsin to join the ribbon cutting and the official grand opening celebration of Langlade Hospital on Friday. The crowd is invited to gather in front of the hospital at 2:50 p.m. for the 3 p.m. welcome and ribbon…
Read MoreLanglade County Board Supports Study That May Lead To Police-Sheriff Merger
The Langlade County Board of Supervisors held its last meeting before the holiday season heats up today handling its business quickly. With Ron Nye filling in for board chair, Dave Solin, the big item on the agenda, participation in a study with the city of Antigo for possible consolidating of the police and sheriff’s department.…
Read MoreAntigo City Council Eyes Big Donation For Dog Park
Creation of a dog park on the city’s northwest side, funded in part through an anonymous donation of $30,000, highlights the agenda for Wednesday’s meeting of the Antigo Common Council. The governing body will convene at 6 p.m. in the chambers at City Hall. With the 2013 budget completed and approved, the council will work…
Read MorePlanning Agency Receives Award For Its Role In Wood Technology Facility
The innovative Wood Technology Center of Excellence located on the Antigo campus of Northcentral Technical College is earning accolades for one of its partners. The North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, based in Wausau, has received a 2012 Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation for its role in the project.…
Read MoreMedical Clinic In The White Lake Area Is Moving Forward
Northern Health Centers, Inc. of Lakewood, Wisconsin and Langlade Hospital of Antigo, Wisconsin with the assistance from the Langlade County Economic Development Corporation, Wipfli Consultants and members of the White Lake area are moving forward with creation and implementation of a medical clinic in the White Lake area to serve the people living in that…
Read MoreLanglade Hospital’s New LeRoyer Walkway A Stunning Place For Rest, Reflection
The new Langlade Hospital is a very public place, but just a few dozen yards to the north, crews are working on a quiet place designed for rest and reflection. The LeRoyer Walkway, which was disturbed from its home along Antigo Lake by the construction of the new facility, is being resurrected to the north…
Read MoreJobless Rate Dips Nicely In Langlade County
Langlade County posted a substantial 1.1 percent decline in the unemployment rate between August and September, among a leader in the northwoods region. The state Department of Workforce Development released a new report Wednesday that reported that unemployment rates fell in all 72 counties. Rates ranged from a low of 4.3 percent in Pierce County…
Read MoreJohnson Coil Co. Shows Antigo Plant To Group Working To Boost Manufacturing
Johnson Electric Coil of Antigo joined over 200 manufacturers across the nation in opening their doors to the community to celebrate Manufacturing Day. Wisconsin manufacturers participated to help expand knowledge and improve public perception of manufacturing careers and manufacturing’s value to the local and U.S. economy. The National Association of Manufacturers and the Manufacturing Institute,…
Read MoreAntigo’s Peaceful Valley Transformed
The onetime industrial area known as Peaceful Valley has been transformed into a community park and festival space. Crews from Kautza Excavating of Birnamwood are putting the finishing touches on the redevelopment project bound by Fifth and Sixth Avenues and Spring Brook and Field Street, and those who haven’t visited the area recently would be…
Read MoreGround Broken for Volm Expansion In Antigo Wisconsin
Volm Companies officers broke ground this morning for a 37,000 square foot addition to its Freshtech facilities just north of the Clermont Street and Amron Avenue intersection. With the Freshtech building as a backdrop, Volm officials joined contractors, bank representatives and Antigo Mayor Bill Brandt for the formal groundbreaking. It happened while trucks and backhoes…
Read MoreLanglade Hospital Continues Projects
After months of demolition, construction resumes on the Langlade Hospital campus today. Administrator Dave Schneider announced Tuesday that the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph and Aspirus are partnering to build the Langlade Hospital Center for Health and Performance, with completion in May. It will be located in an area that was previously home to the…
Read MoreHardwood Flooring, Made With White Lake, Wisconsin Timber, Going Down In New Gym
Hardwood harvested last fall from landowners in and around White Lake has found new life as the school’s new recreation center gymnasium floor. Crews this week have completed laying the hard maple boards, milled at Robbins Flooring of White Lake, that will be the centerpiece of the expansive new gymnasium. According to Doc Smith, the…
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