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Menominee sign moratorium sent to committee
MENOMINEE — The Menominee City Council last week voted 6-2 to send a sign ordinance back to the Judicial & Legislative/Personnel & Labor Committee (JL/PL). Council members Bill Plemel and Donna Marineau voted no, while Josh Jones was excused. City Manager Brett Botbyl said he was directed to revamp the city’s sign ordinance. He suggested a six-month moratorium on signs to give the matter time to run through all the proper committees, as well as create a buffer zone if there was a delay in...
Amid debate about child labor rules, Wisconsin teens take summer jobs
High school sophomore McCartney Schwab spreads several dishes on a counter, scooping ice cream into each. It’s her third summer working at Wilson’s Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor in Door County’s village of Ephraim, which sits along Eagle Harbor on the eastern side of the bay of Green Bay.
Menominee museum celebrates county judge, Katherine Laughton, in summer exhibit
MENOMINEE — When driving down 10th Avenue to 1st Street in Menominee, picture a judge walking down the sidewalk, complete with their robes. That’s what residents sometimes saw as Judge Katherine Marion Stiles Laughton walked home from the courthouse on her lunch break — her home now known as Spirit House. She served as Menominee County’s probate judge, was elected in 1936, and became a juvenile court judge. ...
Volunteers needed to place flags at cemetery
MENOMINEE — Riverside Cemetery in Menominee is looking for volunteers to place flags on all veterans’ graves. If interested, people can meet at the fountain in the center of the old part of the cemetery at 9 a.m. Thursday with a rain date of Friday. For more information, people can contact Michelle at 1-906-864-6837.
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