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RHINELANDER, Wis. (WJFW) - Starting at 8 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 4, the Oneida County Summer ATV/UTV Trail System will be closed in accordance with the Oneida County Forestry, Land

The Oneida County Board passed an advisory resolution during Tuesday’s meeting to express support for maintaining the state’s wolf population at 350 animals or less.

The County Board voted unanimously to not move forward with the next steps towards selling. “Some of my earliest memories are at the park. I grew up spending countless hours fishing the shoreline and photographing its beauty,” said David Walters, chairman of the Friends of Townline Lake Park. Ahead of the Oneida County Boards decision regarding the park, Walters spoke to the board members about why he and other in the Friends of Townline Lake Park organization want to save it as well as its...

Star Journal Townline Lake Park group commits to keeping park open, improved Editor “We use it; we don’t want to lose it,” is the mantra members of the Save Townline Lake Park group repeated at an Oneida County Board committee meeting last week. The group, formed recently after learning of Oneida County’s interest in selling the park, organized opposition to the sale and already has preliminary plans to work with the county to keep the park o...

1:09 This week, the Oneida County Forestry, Land and Recreation Committee tabled a resolution to sell a portion of Town Line Lake Park. That means they won’t decide whether or not to move forward with the sale until their meeting in May. The decision to table the resolution came after a number of community members expressed opposition to the sale. Dave DeMent is one of those community members. He and his wife started a Facebook group to connect people in favor of preserving the park. DeMent s...

Years ago, the park housed playground equipment and picnic shelters. But more recently, fewer visitors frequent the park. “The use of that park has dropped dramatically,” said Paul Fiene, Oneida County’s Forestry Director. “I’ve been here 26 years and in the 26 years I’ve been here the use of the lake has been minimal.” He said the drop in visitors is part of the reason the Forestry, Land and Recreation committee voted to sell 8 acres of the park in 2017. The committee had planned...