Antigo school’s first-in-the-nation training sawmill readies students for lumber industry

Antigo school’s first-in-the-nation training sawmill readies students for lumber industry

Reading Time: 3 minutesA newly opened commercial-scale sawmill in Antigo is the only training sawmill of its kind in the U.S. The sawmill at Northcentral Technical College’s Antigo campus will be a teaching tool for northern Wisconsin students and members of the lumber industry. It’s part of the school’s wood sciences program and was funded by about $4.5 million out of an $8 million state Workforce Innovation Grant to the University of Wisconsin…