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The Langlade County Forestry and Recreation Department has achieved regional honors for its management practices. At the quarterly meeting of the Lumberjack Resource Conservation and Development Council, Forest Administrator Erik Rantala and staff received the Chairman’s Special Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to promoting good forest stewardship through education and example. At one time, Langlade…
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Area industries and businesses are getting serious about hiring new employees during these mid-winter weeks, usually a very quiet time. Here is a list of Antigo/Langlade County jobs that are posted in the Antigo Daily Journal.
read more >Just over a year after ground was broken, the finishing touches are being put on the Prosser Place Estates on Antigo’s north side.
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A high tech fabrication laboratory that is the result of a private-public partnership is taking shape at Antigo High School. The district is in the midst of developing a fab lab, small-scale workshops that offer rural schools and communities equipment that can be used for digital fabrication.
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Unique business opportunity available. Gene’s Bearings, Inc is a family run business, located in downtown Antigo, that will be celebrating 50 years in business in 2017. Included is a large inventory of popular and not so popular stock that keeps, our local customers as well as customers from around the state and upper Michigan coming…
read more >he vets are remaining at Vicki’s. Vickie Wagner, who has operated Vickie and the Vets at the Antigo VFW Clubhouse for several years, quietly purchased the clubhouse building from Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 2653 earlier this month. She had been leasing the kitchen and portions of the building since 2011. The veterans still…
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On Friday, December 16, 2016 Wisconsin Interstate Contracting (WIC) of Merrill and owner Renee Koebe, were one of seven Wisconsin businesses recognized by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation during Marketplace 2016, the Governor’s Conference on Minority Business Development.
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Grow North Economic Development Corporation focuses on creating economic development opportunities to improve the vitality of Oneida, Vilas, Forest, Lincoln, Langlade, Oconto, Florence, and Marinette counties. Areas of focus include workforce development, with efforts to attract, retain, and promote a pipeline of skilled workers to the region. Initiatives include engaging K-12 students by providing manufacturing and other business tours, FAB Lab / Maker Space opportunities, promoting forestry, logging, and wood products careers, and collaborating with businesses to offer apprenticeship opportunities.
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In Langlade County, oats and potatoes go hand-in-hand. According to Marie Graupner, the county’s land conservationist, Langlade County was the largest oat-producing county in Wisconsin in 2016. The reason is tied to the much betterknown potato crop. Growers typically plan oats as a fallow crop, to allow potato fields to regain nutrients. And those oats…
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Tom Gallenberg of Gallenberg Studio in White Lake is a 21st Annual New England Fine Furnishings Show – Best of Show Award recipient, as announced by KL Communications and Rockler Woodworking and Hardware. The focus of this year’s awards program was new product debuts. KL Communications wanted to celebrate the new work that exhibitors were introducing…
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