 CELEBRATE-Over 100 people attended the Marinette Fire Department Open House, Saturday, Aug. 12. The open house was in honor of the departments 150 years of service. TOP PHOTO-Firefighters Jason Lemire and Steve Kunick perform the extrication demonstration as Lt. Mark Diercks looks on. BOTTOM PHOTO-Val Ihde is presented with a commemorative helmet for his many years of photo documentation of M.F.D. responses and events from Lt. Mark Diercks. |
Marinette Fire Department Celebrates 150th Anniversary The Marinette Fire Department celebrated its 150th year anniversary with an open house Saturday, Aug. 12 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Children's activities included a bounce house, water ball, face painting, and Skippee's inter-active fire house.
Marinette High School Student Senate, family members, and U.S. Navy personnel, assigned to the USS Little Rock helped out with the kids activities and served food. Donations for food went to the new Marinette Rec Center.
Donations for the Rec Center also entered attendee's...
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U.S. Labor Department Is Investigating County Starting on Monday, Aug. 21, representatives of the United States Department of Labor will be in Marinette County to do a wage and hour investigation, apparently in response to a complaint or complaints from one or more county employees.
That information was relayed to the County Board's Personnel and Veterans' Service Committee at its monthly meeting on Thursday, Aug. 10 by Human Resources Director Jennifer Holtger.
In response to questions from committee members, Holtger said the federal investigators normally do not j...
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Driveways, Fences Can Be On Property Lines In Grover Much of the discussion at the Grover Town Board meeting on Monday, Aug. 14 centered around complaints from Tamara Beeman that her neighbor on Bridge Road wants to move a 16X80-foot mobile home onto his non-conforming 3/4-acre lot and has built his driveway on the lot line, just six feet from the propane tank on her lot of the same size.
The meeting was moved into the large meeting hall instead of the regular board room due to the number of neighbors who had come to support her arguments.
She said a previous owner"™s request fo...
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Weather May Cause Emergency Radio Skip "There's a lot going on with MABAS Mutual Aid Boxed Alarm System)...We're gaining more confidence, more comfort," Town of Peshtigo Fire Chief Mike Folgert declared Thursday, Aug. 10, in his role as chair of Marinette County's 911 User's Committee. He said there were lots of 911 calls in which the MABAS system was used, and there were "a couple of missed opportunities."
Emergency responders could include rescue squads, fire departments, law enforcement, emergency management people, whoever is necessary to deal wit...
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Peshtigo School Board Shuffles Coaching Jobs The Peshtigo School Board approved three resignations and three hirings at its meeting Wednesday, Aug. 9, though it wasn't without some disagreement.
Kiley Dura requested a one-year sabbatical as a middle school volleyball coach, with Stephanie Nault hired on a one-year appointment to fill in for Dura's sabbatical.
Mike Fifarek abstained from voting on Nault's hiring, saying the one-year sabbatical was unnecessary.
Fifarek asked whether every coach was hired on a year-by-year basis, and said, "the thing I...
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