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What teenage girl doesn’t get a kick out of a funky hat or two? But funky hats are serious business for Dorothy Mifflin, 15, a Langlade County sheep producer. She diligently crochets “Funky Hats by Dorothy” to financially help kids and adults with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Dorothy taught herself how to crochet when…

CoVantage Credit Union, of Antigo, has announced it has signed an agreement to purchase the facility operating as Northwoods National Bank in Elcho. According to CoVantage CEO Brian Prunty, “CoVantage Credit Union already has nearly 2,000 members living in the Elcho area. When we learned the bank branch was for sale we saw an opportunity…

The Start Smart: The Essential Business Plan Entrepreneurial Training Course will be held on Thursdays from 5:30 to 8:30 pm starting September 17, 2015 and running to November 12, 2015.  The classes will be held in the conference room at the Langlade County Economic Development Corporation, which is located in the Wood Technology Center at…

Interested in starting a business, but don’t know where to begin? A new training course offered through the Langlade County Economic Development Corporation may help. In conjunction with the Suick Family Foundation and Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation, the corporation will offer Start Smart: The Essential Business Plan Course, beginning on Thursday, September 17. “The…

The Langlade County Economic Development Corporation will be partnering with WWBIC to offer an Entrepreneurship Training Course.  The course will be on Thursdays starting September 17, 2015 and runs through November 12, 2015.  The classes will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 at the NTC Campus in Antigo in our office located in room WT…

RHINELANDER – Grow North, a group that focuses on economic development in northern Wisconsin, wants people to buy more of Wisconsin’s wood products. But achieving that goal will require more effective marketing from the wood product industry. To that end, Grow North teamed up with New North Regional Economic Development to win a state grant. that…

The students and employers involved in the Youth Apprenticeship and Co-op programs at Antigo High School attended an appreciation luncheon at North Star Lanes.   This was an extension of gratitude for the patience and guidance exhibited by the employers over the past one or two years as the students are taught beneficial skills through…

Join the growing list of local food businesses reaching their goals through the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP) Buy Local Buy Wisconsin program. Proposals for Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin grant-funded projects are now being accepted from individuals, groups, businesses and organizations involved in Wisconsin agriculture, food processing, food distribution, food warehousing,…

Downtown Antigo got a boost last night from the City Council. It quietly approved two plans,one for a sign park at Fifth Avenue and Clermont Street filling a rather weedy and messy lost, and just across the street, Belle’s Smokehouse, which will offer brisket, pulled pork and ribs to its Antigo customers. Aldermen will convene…

The Malliette Bus Co. held an open house Wednesday and welcomed a number of prospective new drivers and many of the veterans, just looking to the comrade.“It was a great afternoon,” Tim Grosskurth said as the program was winding down later in the afternoon. The prospective drivers were put through a number of tests including…