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Antigo Housing Authority commissioners and Park View Manor staff gathered this week for a ceremonial ground-breaking to mark the start of construction on a $3.4 million renovation that will completely revamp the building.“It has been a marathon event taking us over three years to complete,” Housing Authority Director Mary Pavek said. “Our resident family at…

It was out with the old in preparation for the new at Langlade Ford Monday afternoon.Minutes after a ceremonial ground-breaking for a major renovation, heavy equipment from Krueger & Steinfest rolled onto the site and began demolishing the old showroom and offices, a major step in a renovation that has been quietly underway for weeks.The…

Construction equipment will roll onto the Langlade Ford property on Antigo’s northside during early June for a major renovation of the dealership’s sales, office, marketing areas and the body shop.Chris Corr, who owns and operates the busy Ford sales and service firm at 2530 Neva Rd., explained that the project is being coordinated by Keller,…

Sartori Company officials, joined by Gov. Scott Walker and a host of other state and local dignitaries, held a ceremonial ground-breaking for a massive expansion at its Antigo plant this morning.The $14 million project will be spread across Sartori’s Antigo and Plymouth facilities, but the lion’s share of the work—over $11 million—will take place in…

Mole Lake – You can drive along plenty of scenic stretches of roads across Northern Wisconsin. However, the state of Wisconsin only considers one stretch of highway in the Northwoods as an official scenic byway. Leaders in a handful of counties want to change that by earning a distinction from Wisconsin’s Scenic Byways program. They…

For the principals at Johnson Electric Coil Company, it’s all about the people first—their customers and their employees—with the product second. “Transformers are just what we make,” Bill Bockes, CEO, said. “The organization and all the people in it are really what we’re all about.” Johnson Electric Coil is celebrating its 80th anniversary this year,…

Among Francis Deleglise’s many roles in the history of Antigo was his promotion of the city, and his realty business, through brochures and letters encouraging families to settle in the region. Together with his business partner W.W. Hutchinson, in 1884 they published a booklet that extolled the virtues of Langlade County. The booklet proclaimed in…

Langlade County has been honored for outstanding achievements in forestry education. At this week’s meeting of the County Board, supervisors accepted the 2013 Chairman’s Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions in Forestry Education from Claudia Baker, executive director of the Lumberjack Resource Conservation & Development Council, Inc. The award was presented to Langlade County for…

Merit Gear, one of Antigo’s most durable industries, has been purchased by Milwaukee-based Rexnord Corp. The deal, announced by Rexnord on Tuesday, includes Precision Gear Holdings, LLC and its two operating subsidiaries, Merit Gear and Precision Gear LLC, located in Twinsburg, Ohio. The Business Journal of Milwaukee reported that the businesses were purchased by Rexnord…

The Langlade County Board of Supervisors settled into the very comfortable conference room this morning at the Wood Technology Center at the Northcentral Technical College campus here. The December session of the supervisors had a relatively non-controversial agenda, but two interesting presentations opened the meeting. In the first, Claudia Baker, representing the Lumberjack RC&D Council,…