RHINELANDER - Several girls basketball teams will tip off the season later this week. Both the Rhinelander Hodags and the Crandon Cardinals will begin the year with a new head coach.
Rhinelander's Mark Jacobson and Crandon's Josh Jager are busy getting their respective teams ready.
The two teams met for a scrimmage tonight in Rhinelander. Rhinelander finished with just 9 victories and tied for third in the Great Northern Conference.
Crandon won the Northern Lakes Conference a year ago - but lost 4 of their starting 5 to graduation.
Both coaches say there is a lot of work to do before the season gets underway.
Hodags begin the year at the D.C. Everest Invite beginning on Friday. They will face Davenport Assumption.
Crandon starts the year Nov. 27, hosting Tomahawk.
MERRILL - Farmers in Lincoln and Langlade Counties may need to make a longer drive or call a different office for USDA services.
The Merrill Service Center will be temporarily split up between Rhinelander, Wausau, and Medford.
The Farm Service Agency will move to the Wausau Service Center and the Natural Resources Conservation Service will be relocated to the Rhinelander and Medford Centers.
MINOCQUA - These plants may look pretty but they're taking over our rivers and lakes. Michele Sadauskas is Oneida County's Aquatic Invasive Species Coordinator. She is working to map and control the yellow iris, the plant you see here. She and two other conservation workers spent the day weeding Stacks Bay.
"They invade our wetlands. They're a really robust, aggressive plant. What they do is they crowd out our native species and make actually the wetland a lot less diverse," says Michele Sadauskas, Oneida County AIS Coordinator.
Removing yellow iris is a slow process. It takes three hours of work just to properly map and control 20 feet of shoreline.
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