Honor Family and friends along with members of the American Legion gathered Friday, July 14 at Rennes West in Peshtigo to recognize World War II Navy veteran, Val Swiatnicki for his 70 years of continuous membership in the American Legion. Swiatnicki, is a member of the Carlson-Alguire-Hoaglund Post 312 in Peshtigo. Adjuntant Virgil (Ron) Kaempf spoke before the presentation of the dedication Swiatnicki has shown to the post over the past 70 years. The certificate was presented by Commander Bill Warren. The certificate read: The American Legion Certi...
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County Board To Consider Funding Half Time DA Post The trend toward turnover on Marinette County Board continues. At its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, July 25 the board will be formally informed that Supervisor Chris Schmidt, who represented District 17, Town of Grover Wards 1 and 3 and Town of Peshtigo Ward 5, has resigned. He won his first term on the board in April by defeating Thomas Mandli to replace Cindy "CJ" Barrette, who did not seek re-election. Earlier this summer Schmidt had asked to be excused from attending meetings until fall due to the demands of his new business, Pesh...
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Paul Klose Named for MarOco Landfill Director John LeFebvre, who several months ago was named Marinette County Administrator, is training Conservation Technician Paul Klose to replace him as director of the MarOco Landfill west of Crivitz. He introduced Klose to the MarOco Landfill Committee at its monthly meeting at the landfill on Friday, July 14, and said Klose would become manager of the landfill effective Sunday, July 16.
MarOco has been jointly owned by Marinette and Oconto counties since 1990. LeFebvre supervised construction of the landfill and has been director since the ...
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District Attorney Fills Full-Time Assistant Job Newly-appointed Marinette County District Attorney DeShea Morrow has filled one of the two open lawyer positions in her office.
The new hire is Cody Marschall, a recent graduate of Marquette Law School, who will start his job as assistant district attorney on July 24.
Morrow spoke on what impressed her about Marschall, saying, "He was very eager and energetic and just ready to get started"¦ He just really struck me as someone that was ready to get to work and is very, very capable so I'm happy to have him on board."
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Florence, Marinette County May Partner On Waterfall Shirley Kaufman, chair of Marinette County Board's Economic Development and Tourism Committee and member of Marinette County Tourism Alliance, reported during time for public comment at the monthly Alliance meeting on Thursday, July 13 that she will continue her efforts to have the 29-hour job of county tourism coordinator expanded to full time.
Current Tourism Coordinator Butch Kostreva has repeatedly said he cannot complete all the work he should be doing in the allotted 29 hours.
Kaufman said a special meeting of the Econ...
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