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NORTHWOODS - Following the felony drug charges involving four Antigo School District workers and one Merrill teacher, surrounding schools are questioning whether or not to implement drug testing policies.
"We need to be held to a higher standard," said MHLT District Administrator Dr. Jim Ellis.
John Lund, 47, was charged last Friday with eight felony counts of growing and selling marijuana. Lund has been the Antigo High School Football coach since 1995.
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EAGLE RIVER - An annual snowmobile ride is bringing generations of women to the Northwoods.
Women On Snow was created in 1978 when two Eagle River ladies decided to take a 307-mile weekend ride without their husbands.
34-years later and this annual gathering continues to grow.
Now women come from across the Midwest to tour the Northwoods trails.
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RHINELANDER - The former Northwoods camp director accused of recording girls in the shower and embezzlement is scheduled for sentencing Friday morning.
33-year-old Jeremy Fadoul was arrest in May in connection to the crimes taking place at Camp Birchrock.
Online court records show he is facing nine felony charges including recording an image of nudity and theft in a business greater than 10-thousand dollars.
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TOMAHAWK - Three months after the concealed carry bill went into effect in Wisconsin, one Northwoods dealer says handguns sales are still up.
Richard Statton, owner of Statton's General Store in Tomahawk, says he's still not seeing many first-time gun buyers as a result of concealed carry, but he has seen a jump in gun owners buying their first handguns.
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RHINELANDER - With our current troubling economy many people may find it hard to make ends meet and some can be left without a place to call home.
One small group of volunteers set out early Thursday morning in Rhinelander searching for anyone without a home, forced to find shelter on the street.
This is part of a statewide effort conducted twice a year in January and July.
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RHINELANDER - According to the Institute of Medicine twenty percent of kids ages two to five are obese, and carry this weight over into adulthood.
Kathy Ploutz has dealt with Oneida County student's lunches for over twenty years and says these changes will help. "We'll continue to have cheese pizza, but we might be having it with whole wheat crust. We'll continue to have say macaroni and cheese, but it might be with a lower fat cheese and a whole grain pasta. So we'll continue to have some of those favorites on, but you may not know they are more healthy."
But according to Dr. Jerod Bergman at the Natural Health and Improvement Center these changes aren't exactly cream of the crop. "We want to look at nutrient density, not just quantity, and I think they are getting that idea. But there is definitely room for improvement."
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