With the start of a year-long assessment of its technology needs last week, Portage County aims to r[...]
Jan 31 2013
After more than five years of writing this column in The Gazette, it’s time to say goodbye. This wee[...]
Jan 31 2013
Village of Whiting residents will pay higher water rates by the end of the year if the Public Servic[...]
Jan 24 2013
This is a eulogy, maybe, to a speaker. Not just any speaker, though, but the best and most famous sp[...]
Jan 24 2013
The Stevens Point Area School Board Monday, Jan. 14, decided in closed session to wait until August [...]
Jan 17 2013
When the Oscar nominations were announced last week, I quickly counted the number of the nine Best P[...]
Jan 17 2013
Portage County Board of Supervisors Chair O. Philip Idsvoog, District 16, wants answers as to why a [...]
Jan 10 2013
I almost pulled off the hoax of my lifetime last week. Taking a photo at Ministry St. Michael’s Hosp[...]
Jan 10 2013
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced Wednesday, Jan. 2, that a deer shot in[...]
Jan 03 2013
If every movie produced by Hollywood starred Liam Neeson, then nobody would ever complain about bad [...]
Jan 03 2013
People may have only put one coin or dollar bill at a time into a Salvation Army red kettle during t[...]
Dec 27 2012
When the news broke late last week that Stevens Point native and three-time Olympian Suzy Favor Hami[...]
Dec 27 2012
According to the weatherman, winter is set to arrive later this week – both figuratively and literal[...]
Dec 20 2012
Portage County Executive Patty Dreier said the joint dispatch center “ball” is now in the city’s cou[...]
Dec 13 2012
Santa Claus – or as I call him, Santa the Claus, just to annoy my wife (yes, I’m that type of husban[...]
Dec 13 2012
Hollywood couldn’t have written a better script Wednesday, Dec. 5, at SentryWorld in Stevens Point. [...]
Dec 06 2012
I’m as big a “Star Wars” fan as most others obsessed by the nearly 40-year old science fiction tale,[...]
Dec 06 2012
As 2012 comes to an end, county leaders are focused on developing a strategic plan for the entire co[...]
Nov 29 2012
Like it or not, Activision’s “Call of Duty” video game series causes people to skip work and classes[...]
Nov 29 2012
Readers of The Gazette have been reading George Roger’s outdoors column since the paper was founded [...]
Nov 21 2012