RHINELANDER - Experts say prescription drugs can be dangerous to you and the environment, so the Oneida County Sheriff's Office, along with the Oneida County Solid Waste Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration are hosting a pharmaceutical take-back event.
You can bring your expired, unwanted, or unused non-liquid medicines to the Oneida County Law Enforcement Center on September 25th.
The agencies are collecting the pills from nine to Noon that Saturday.
The address is 2000 East Winnebago Street in Rhinelander.
Chemotherapy drugs, liquids, intra-venous solutions, injectibles, and syringes will not be accepted.
TOWN OF CONOVER - Fire destroys a garage in Vilas County.
It happened in the Town of Conover at 3551 North Country Lane.
The Conover Volunteer Fire Department responded to the call around four Wednesday afternoon after the owner noticed fire around his feet while welding in the garage and called 911.
When firefighters arrived the garage was fully engulfed.
TOWN OF CONOVER - A local veteran says he feels West's family's pain.
Harold Kressin of Conover is an Army veteran.
Kressin says it's hard to hear about soldiers losing their lives overseas, and it's especially hard when they're from your community.
Harold Kressin, Army Veteran, says, "Everytime a man gets killed or a woman gets killed in service, it's just heart-breaking to me, I cry. Because these people are not going to have the freedoms that we have."
- Labor Day marks the unofficial end to summer and the wrap up of the summer tourism season.
With the holiday, just a few days away, Newswatch 12 looks at how the Northwoods economy fared this year.
Newswatch 12 spent Wednesday in Minocqua speaking with resort owners and the Minocqua Arbor Vitae Woodruff Area Chamber of Commerce, otherwise known as MAVWACC.
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