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Antigo Daily Journal
Borchardt's plea hearing scheduled for December
WAUSAU — The Antigo man charged in a head-on crash that killed an elderly couple in September 2025 is scheduled for a plea hearing in December. Adam Borchardt, 37, will appear in Marathon County Circuit Court on Dec. 9 for a plea hearing. Court records state he entered not guilty pleas in early June during his preliminary hearing. Borchardt is charged with: two felony counts of homicide by vehicle with use of controlled substance; injury by use of vehicle, controlled substance, injury by use of vehicle, controlled substance second plus subsequent offense; knowingly driving while license was revoked causing a death and knowingly driving while license was revoked causing great bodily harm. According to court records, Borchardt is being held on a $300,000 cash bond. If he bonds out, he is to adhere to the following conditions: no contact with victims’ families or their residences; no bars, taverns, liquor stores or beer tents; must maintain absolute sobriety and have no possession of alcohol/controlled substances except prescriptions taken as prescribed; cannot drive without a valid license and must report to ATTIC Corrections Services within one business day of release and must comply with pretrial monitoring through ATTIC at level four supervision
Antigo Daily Journal
Antigo East Elementary School razed
ANTIGO — The aging East Elementary School was razed last week as the Antigo School District is coming closer to opening the new John H. Bradley Elementary School. In December 2025, the Antigo School Board voted to raze the vacant elementary school, which had a cost of about $150,000. The board and administrator decided on the option to raze the building to prepare the lots to eventually sell. During that meeting, Superintendent Glenda Oginski said three or four people did a walk through of the building, but “once they saw the condition of the building and the amount of money it was going to take to renovate it, even just to simply be a viable storage facility, no one was interested.” In order for the school to be properly razed, there were two separate jobs involved including asbestos abatement and the demolition itself. The district’s buildings were built in the 1960s and required infrastructural updates and upgrades to education. Oginski said during the December 2025 meeting, “The board wants to do what’s always fiscally responsible, but also it was very important to our board to make sure that we didn’t leave an eyesore of a vacant building. We didn’t want
Eagle Herald
Highwire Farms owner won't sign a do-not sue provision
MENOMINEE — The result of last week’s ballot initiative in Menominee means nothing to Highwire Farms cannabis company principal owner Eric Kennedy. “Nothing has changed, it’s still capped and the lawsuit continues,” he told the EagleHerald. “They could go unlimited. It changes nothing.” Highwire Farms, 1015 10th St., was part of a settlement agreement in 2023 that promised retail licenses to six marijuana businesses. In exchange, those businesses agreed to indemnify or pay the city’s legal bills for future lawsuits and agreed not to appeal. Highwire Farms didn’t open at that time because it was mired in a legal situation over its location. It eventually settled at the intersection of 10th Avenue and 10th Street (most recently A&B Auto and before that a bank). A build-out ensued, but the business couldn’t get the green light from the city. When Menominee County Circuit Judge Mary B. Barglind lifted an injunction this past July that opened the door for a ninth license — one that Kennedy felt he was owed. He wasn’t alone. Puff Cannabis (located at the former Family Video location on 10th St.) and Urb (located just north of City Hall on 10th Street) also feel they deserve licenses. Puff
