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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Oneida County Drilling Site Neighbors Claim Lack Of Communication, Legality
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:51
	Publish Date:		2020-06-18 05:57:22
	Description:		Ron L. Zabler admits Oneida County winters have been harsh on his family’s cabin in the woods. Some of the paint may be peeling, but that makes this place no less important to him. “Once I’m up here, I don’t want to go back,” said Zabler, whose permanent home with his wife, Carline, is in southern Wisconsin. A lot of his attitude has to do with his family’s history on this plot of land. “I’ve been here since I was 14. I was here when the original owner was here,” said Zabler, who is in his 70s. He was standing outside the red, wooden cabin with his wife and his son, also named Ron. “This is sacred land. My grandfather’s ashes are on this property,” said the son, Ron B. Zabler. “This land’s been in our family since he got out of World War II.” The family has always known their area of the Town of Schoepke to be a peaceful one, until earlier this month, when trucks and heavy machinery started lumbering by on the one-lane gravel road. “They’re currently doing exploratory drilling, and you
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