WAUSAU - Wausau Paper will keep investing in its tissue mills. Monday the company released its 2012 financial report to investors.
It says it narrowed its losses in the last quarter of last year, after it shut down its Brokaw mill. That move put 450 people out of work.
But the company says it lost just 2 and a half million dollars in the last three months of 2012, compared to almost 29 million in the same three months of 2011.
Wausau Paper said last month it intends to sell the last three mills it owns that don't make tissue.
They are the Rhinelander and Mosinee mills, and another in Brainerd, Minnesota.
RHINELANDER - It often feels like there are two seasons in Wisconsin: Winter and Construction.
Drivers in Rhinelander will head into summer with a brand new construction-related headache to deal with on a major roadway.
"We're hopeful, and we'll work our best to get it to where we want it to be," city engineer Tim Kingman said.
Rhinelander city leaders think that's the mindset to take when it comes to a major construction project on busy Kemp Street. Smaller portions of the project will start in early June. That's on Bruner St. and Boyce Drive.
Massive tornado flattens homes, neighborhoods in Oklahoma
Submitted: 05/20/2013
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - A monstrous tornado as much as a mile wide roars through the Oklahoma City suburbs, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.
NBC News reports at least 37 people are confirmed dead as of 7:30 p.m.
The storm laid waste to scores of buildings in Moore, south of the city.
The National Weather Service says it had winds up to 200 mph.
People wearing neon-green vests were joined by residents in the search through rubble. Neighborhoods are flattened and homes blown apart.
Gary Knight with the Oklahoma City Police Department says an elementary school took a direct hit from the mile-wide tornado.
ANTIGO - Most of us waited eagerly for spring so we could start our summer hobbies.
But farmers wait for spring so they can get to work.
John Schroeder runs a potato farm in Antigo.
He says the late spring could mean a bad harvest for crops like alfalfa, but potatoes should be just fine.
"It generally started a little wet and cold, he said. "We were probably three or four days behind planting right now, but we had a good week last week, so we're catching up."
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