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MINOCQUA -- Marshfield Clinic Health System’s efforts to reduce its opioid prescribing drew praise Friday, July 14 from Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, who was at the clinic’s Minocqua center to co-chair the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Abuse meeting.

“I was astounded by the numbers that you guys are putting out,” Kleefisch (R-Wisconsin) told Marshfield Clinic representatives in her opening remarks. “Your moving on the forefront of combating opioid abuse is significant.”

Needed upgrades to the runways at Eagle River Union Airport soon will mean changes for pilots using the facility until the work is done.

Airport Manager Robert Hom says the work will improve the runway....

"Our main runway...0422 is 5,000 feet long. It's our jet runway. It was last paved, any work done on it in the mid-70's. It's at the end of it's life cycle. So we're going to be repaving it and improving it's weight-bearing capacity....."

Hom  says they get a large amount of jet traffic and those planes need a minimum of 5,000 feet...

It's a busy few days for the Oneida County Sheriff's Department with tens of thousands of visitors coming to the Rhinelander area for the Hodag Country Festival.

Sheriff Grady Hartman says the department is staffed up this weekend...

"....most of our deputies end up working out there. A lot of them are on overtime, some of them are on straight time. We leave some of the deputies back to cover the calls in the county and transport if we get any prisoners back to the jail...."

Hartman says they plan for the extra staffing required...

Down it comes!

The former Kabel Auto Building, not far from Rhinelander City Hall on Stevens St. has come down.

The city received a grant to demolish the aging building.

Kautza Excavating did the demolition work. The site will be a city lot.

A Tomahawk teacher has won a national contest from the cable TV network HGTV.

On the HGTV website, it said Stacy Bolder was surprised when an HGTV host showed up at a local establishment with a camera crew to get her reaction.

Bolder won the HGTV Smart Home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Along with the home, which HGTV says is worth $1.5 million, Bolder and her husband also won a 2017 Mercedes-Benz and $100,000 from Quicken Loans.

MINOCQUA –Tom Gabert’s proposal to reduce the size of the Lakeland Union High School Board of Education is meeting resistance from some fellow board members.

The high school’s 9-member board – the largest of any school board in the area – comprises five at-large members and four assigned respectively to each of the public elementary school districts. Five-member boards govern those K-8 districts.

Fire fully engulfed a residence in the Vilas county Town of Cloverland Wednesday afternoon.

The Sheriff's Department reports responders arrived at 5680 Cloverland Drive to fight the blaze.

The home has been unoccupied for some time.

Several agencies responded to the blaze. No injuries reported and the dwelling was total loss. The fire remains under investigation.