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The Lakeland Area Boy Scout Troop 564 celebrated the achievement of three of its members reaching Eagle Scout status Jan 21. The Eagle Scout is the highest level in Boy Scouts requiring a minimum of 25 merit badges to be earned.
Last week, the Lakeland Youth Basketball traveling teams hosted a tournament.
With temperatures dropping and the term "mild winter" once again evaporating from the lexicon of Northwoods speech as an anomaly that stabs Wisconsin's northern population in the back year after year after year, the Oneida County...
The wolf population in Wisconsin begins its decline Friday as officials across the Great Lake Region take hold of local control. Barring any eleventh-hour legal action, Wisconsin and other Great Lakes states will take over...
Property values are continuing their dramatic downward slide in Minocqua and in other northern Wisconsin property-taxing entities, and the region is no exception as the nation struggles with a devastating housing market implosion that just doesn't seem to have an end in sight.
And here's another thing that's not exceptional about the region - for the most part, even as people lose as much as 50 percent of the value of their homes, and sometimes more, average property tax bills are staying put right about where they were.
In financial parlance, it's called a tax roll up. That is to say, as property values decline, first market and then assessed values, and ultimately with it the total assessed value of property that can be taxed, municipalities traditionally "roll up" millage rates (per $1,000 of equalized value) to compensate for the eventual decline on the other side of the equation. So as values decline, rates go up, and levy revenues remain stable.
Critics of the maneuver, using old-fashioned language, call this a tax increase. That is the only logical way to describe it, they say, when, for example, a person paying $1,500 in taxes on a $150,000 home starts paying the same $1,500, or a little less, when the home's value drops by a third to $100,000.
Suddenly, instead of paying 1 percent of the value in taxes, the taxpayer is paying 1.5 percent of the property's lower value. Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Key decisions will need to be made within the next 10 days to two weeks so the proposed construction of a new library in Boulder Junction can move forward. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
In northern Wisconsin and elsewhere across the state and nation - save for a very few communities - property owners are seeing an age-old maxim dashed right before their very eyes. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
Those attending Tuesday's meeting of the Woodruff board were surprised to hear supervisor Dean Daulton announce his retirement from his position effective Jan. 31.
Daulton said he was leaving his seat after 14 years as town supervisor.
"I've really appreciated working with everybody here," Daulton said. "It's with a sad heart that I'm leaving, but it's something I have to do."
The vacancy posed a dilemma for the board as to how to fill Daulton's seat on the board. He has one year remaining in his term.
Typically a seat vacated in the mid-term would be offered to the first runner-up of an election, chairman Mike Timmons said. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
Not too long ago I paraphrased Mitt Romney to describe the Republican presidential field - quite like Lucy in the chocolate factory - but warned everybody the Democrats wouldn't wait too long before they got into the cocoa beans themselves. (View comments) Friday, January 20, 2012
The views presented here represent the opinions of the majority of the The Lakeland Times editorial board, but do not reflect the opinions of all employees of The Lakeland Times. (1 comments) Thursday, January 19, 2012
The views presented here represent the opinions of the majority of the The Lakeland Times editorial board, but do not reflect the opinions of all employees of The Lakeland Times. (View comments) Friday, January 06, 2012
The Lakeland Union High School boys' hockey team all but cliched a finish in the top half of the conference standings with a narrow 5-4 win Tuesday at Tomahawk. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
The Lakeland Union High School girls' basketball team dropped a non-conference match up Tuesday to Marshfield 66-30. (View comments) Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Hindsight, there was a good chance it could have happened. But with the heavy piece of wood and iron in his hands, the last thing on Sam Pagels' mind was worrying about killing two deer with one shot. Pagels had already made the 2011 hunting season a memorable one. The 11-year-old hunter headed south to his grandparents' Wood County property and bagged a dandy 9-point buck. (View comments) Thursday, January 26, 2012
EAGLE RIVER - From the moment he turned his first practice lap, right up to his victory lap Sunday afternoon, Nick Van Strydonk was flat-out fast.
The 21-year old Tomahawk native set the tone for his championship weekend right off the bat, turning a sub 18-second qualifying lap and pushing average speeds on the third-mile oval to near 75 mph. With his hands raised and checkered flag waving behind his 440 liquid cooled Polaris snowmobile, Van Strydonk brought a close to the championship events at the Eagle River Derby Track which saw another two-week run come and go successfully. (View comments) Tuesday, January 24, 2012
This is the second in a series detailing the ambitions, adventures and experiences of Paul Tornow and Lee Kuepper. Both graduates of Lakeland Union High School, they found their separate ways to the Alaskan outdoors outside of Anchorage. It was in a small Kenai River port city there where they met up across the bar from one another, and decided to join hands on a business venture, Alaska Angling Addiction. (View comments) Friday, January 20, 2012
Scott Walker is learning the lesson of coddling the richest 1 percent, while throwing everyone else under a bus. After two months of collecting signatures against the disgraced governor (among other Republican representatives), well over one million signatures were collected to force recall elections. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
I was honored to recently present my yearly report on the Northwoods Alliance for Temporary Housing, Inc.'s (NATH's) activities and progress to our board of directors. I wish to share our very successful year at Frederick Place homeless shelter with you and with our communities. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
Today, Jan. 27, 2012, the Gray Wolf will be officially delisted as an endangered species for the Great Lakes area including Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. (View comments) Friday, January 27, 2012
The Lakeland Area Rotary Breakfast and Noon clubs are looking for a few good families to host high school exchange students from other countries. Currently, there are three exchange students attending Lakeland Union High School through the Rotary Youth Exchange program - "Linda" Ting-An Yu, from Taiwan; Josh Hartfield, from Australia; and Renato Ramirez, from Ecuador. Thomas Saravi, from Argentina, will be arriving near the end of January. (View comments) Friday, January 13, 2012
The Minocqua Public Library held its first Lego Mania event for children during winter break, Wednesday, Dec. 28. It was held in the newly-renovated library's community room. (View comments) Monday, January 09, 2012
