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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,…

The Antigo Housing Authority will use a $700,000 federal grant as a part of its $3.5 million dollar renovations to the Park View Manor complex. The complex supports low income seniors and those that are disabled looking for a safe and affordable place to live. Antigo Housing Authority Executive Director Mary Pavek says many of…

Gov. Scott Walker announced a new timber harvest initiative Thursday that will target the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and kick off a plan to spur economic growth in the struggling industry. The initial $49,000 from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. comes after complaints from loggers and forestry experts who say the 1.5 million-acre national forest is…

Wisconsin Public Service Corporation  and Focus on Energy swooped into Antigo on Wednesday, presenting incentive checks totaling $122,153 to city and county officials. The dollars represented the savings realized from energy efficient upgrades including lighting retrofits, variable frequency drives and vending machine controls. The work was funded in part by special Focus on Energy programs…

For Immediate Release Contact: Mark Maley, 608-210-6767 mark.maley@wedc.org Cheesemaker announces $14 million expansion Sartori Co.’s renovation project expected to create 53 new jobs at Wisconsin facilities MADISON, December 11, 2013 – The Sartori Co., a family-owned cheese company, announced today that it will embark on a $14 million expansion and renovation project at its plants…