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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
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injury by use of vehicle, controlled substance second plus subsequent offense; knowingly driving while license was revoked causing a death and knowingly driving while license was revoked causing great bodily harm.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
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Climatological first snow thresholds passing by Northeast Wisconsin
This fall has been a mild one so far, and as a result -- discussions about snow, have basically been nonexistent. It's typically the middle of November when Green Bay and most of the Fox Valley has at least seen one measurable snow, defined as a tenth of an inch or more.
