Rebels look to ride momentum of spring baseball season
Though the Rhinelander High School baseball team’s tournament run ended sooner than it would have hoped, many of those same players will be back on the diamond this summer where they hope to get another shot at a deep postseason push.
Dino-Myte!
Marveling over T-rex fossil replicas brought to life in their imaginations by “Dino Chris” Grall are, from left, siblings Carson Raleigh, Khloe Raleigh and Keagan Raleigh, and Drak Deede.
RHS Sports recap: Thursday, June 11
Girls’ soccer: Rhinelander 2, Lakeland 0
Eight Hodags honored in All-GNC soccer awards
Eight members of the Rhinelander High School girls’ soccer team received all-conference recognition Monday when the Great Northern Conference released its all conference team for the 2026 season.
River News sports editor Mayo, cameraman Mainhardt into Hodag Hall of Fame
With more than half a century of combined sports coverage, longtime Rhinelander community members and River News contributors, Bob Mainhardt and Jeremy Mayo, were inducted into the Rhinelander Athletic Booster Club (ABC) Hodag Hall of Fame at the annual banquet on May 20.
Monsters bounce back to beat Marshfield
The Rhinelander River Monsters bounced back from a tough doubleheader split against Minocqua and controlled things start to finish Sunday, June 7 in Dairyland League play.
SDR board approves preliminary budget roughly 2% larger than last year’s
The School District of Rhinelander board of education approved the 2026-2027 preliminary budget, with total revenues of $53,352,382 and total expenditures of $55,826,276. That’s an increase of more than 36% over the 2025-26 budget approved last October.
RHS track team hands out honors
Prior to departing for the WIAA state meet in La Crosse, the Rhinelander High School track team gathered to celebrate its season and hand out year-end awards Tuesday, June 2 in the RHS commons.
PHOTOS: Babe Ruth battles lakeland
Rhinelander’s Babe Ruth baseball team took on Lakeland at the Minocqua Park Complex Tuesday, June 9.
PHOTO: Feck competes in Border Bash game
Rhinelander’s Devon Feck took part in the Kiwanis Border Bash All-Star Game Thursday, June 4 at Gogebic Community College in Ironwood, Mich.
Report: Housing demand falls as workforce shrinks
Wisconsin will need to build substantially fewer housing units by the end of the decade than previously projected, according to a new report, but the author says the revised estimate reflects not an improving housing market but a rapidly shrinking working-age population.
Council starts process for ATV/UTV ordinance on city streets
Another mile has been logged on the long road toward possibly allowing UTVs on Lincoln Street. In a major portion of its marathon meeting last Monday, June 8, the Rhinelander common council discussed a draft of an ATV/UTV ordinance drawn up by city attorney Steve Sorensen.
Heading for U.S. history’s hallowed ground
Looking to make some history as well as celebrate it, 14-year-old Amelia Lindgren of Rhinelander will leave Wisconsin tomorrow for quite an adventure. A student at SOAR Charter Middle School, Amelia earned the trip by blending her fascination with our nation’s past happenings with her creativity, writing skill, and tech …
Oneida County Court Report
The following cases were recently filed or heard in Oneida County Circuit Court from May 19 to May 25:
Loneliness: People do need people
Ashley, North Dakota, is a small farming town where the local diet leans hard on sausage, deep-fried chicken and strudel. It has something of a medical center, but the nearest trauma hospital able to handle the most serious injuries is almost four hours away in Fargo.
In no one we trust: Americans grow increasingly cynical, with increasingly good reason
In a 2011 Los Angeles Times column titled “When Unity Was All-American,” writer George Skelton marked the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor by recalling a time when Americans respected those whom they elected. “What I remember most,” he recalled about America during World War II, “are home front adults pulling …
August “Chip” A. Schoeneck, Jr.
August “Chip” A. Schoeneck, Jr., 76, of Rhinelander, passed away on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, at his winter home in Florida. Chip was born on August 7, 1949, in Antigo, to his loving parents, August and Ione (Starks) Schoeneck. He grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from Rhinelander High School …
