By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer HOWARD – Much of the village board meeting Monday, Oct. 14, was spent discussing how to extend sanitary sewer and water service to the area in Howard where the County VV diamond interchange will be built along Wisconsin Highway 29. An issue underlying those utility extensions is property owners with …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer SUAMICO – After having staff speak with business owners along Riverside Drive between Velp Avenue and Side Street, the village board agreed Monday, Oct. 21, to pursue a sidewalk concept for improving the area. Board members also approved having GRAEF put together a Multimodal Local Supplement (MLS) grant application for …
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By Ben Rodgers Editor SUAMICO – Chances are if you sang in a choir at Bay Port High School at one point during the last 46 years you were instructed by a member of the Pufall family. David Pufall spent 35 years at Bay Port as director of a number of choirs, before retiring in …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – It was an emotional ending when many Jefferson Elementary School parents, staff and community members left the school board meeting in tears following the 4-to-3 decision to close Jefferson and consolidate it with Fort Howard Elementary School beginning with the 2020-21 school year. “I didn’t study education in …
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By Press Times Staff ASHWAUBENON – The first round of interviews took place Tuesday, Oct. 15, to fill the village’s vacant public safety chief position, said Village Manager Allison Swanson. In response to an open records request by The Press Times, the village has released the names of three individuals interviewed by the Police and …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – After nearly three hours of debate the Green Bay school board adopted a new district-wide dress code policy at its meeting Monday, Oct. 21. Board members were in agreement on the changes to the policy, with the exception of hats and hooded sweatshirts. At the Oct. 7 meeting, …
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By Ben Rodgers Editor SUAMICO – Instead of the standard motion and roll call vote for the 2019-20 district budget, the Howard-Suamico school board looked ahead Monday, Oct. 21, to the next possible referendum question in April 2021. “What we’d like to do, once we get approval for the budget and tax levy, is bridge …
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By Patrick Wood Publisher Dear Reader, For the past month, we have been participating in a statewide editorial campaign on the topic of homelessness, an outcome of a symposium we initiated involving legislators, the business community, service providers and members of the media. As a newspaper that reports on local communities and advocates for local business patronage in efforts …
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By Ben Rodgers Editor With the spotlight centered firmly on the homelessness problem not only in Brown County, but the rest of Wisconsin, now is the time for meaningful action from local and state leaders. Some numbers in our local report that highlighted last week’s banner issue show just how serious this problem is and …
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By Lee Reinsch Correspondent HOBART – Move over Tony Little. Get lost Richard Simmons. The new kid on the block is FIRE Fitness Camp. But this kind of camp doesn’t call for tents, sleeping bags, or raccoon-proof snack storage. Those who brave it won’t be away from home for a week. And FIRE Fitness Camps …
