By Melinda Anne Roberts Correspondent GREEN BAY – Jennifer Schmoe, director/coordinator of Circles Green Bay, wants to use a laser focus on an issue that has a plethora of facets. Schmoe and her team are looking at affordable housing and homelessness from the viewpoint of individuals in need. With that information, Circles Green Bay will …
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By Patrick J. Wood Publisher Dear Reader, As I write this, I see snowflakes swirling in the breeze, marking winter’s last-ditch attempt to keep us in its clutches. It’s a tug-of-war, and while we think we know the outcome – sunshine, green shoots of life in our Wisconsin fields and forests, maybe even temperatures above freezing – we don’t know when these …
By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer SUAMICO – The village board has awarded a contract for $736,640 to Northeast Asphalt as the low bidder to reconstruct roads in Suamico this year. Andy Smits, public works director, informed the board at its meeting Monday, April 1, that the roadway reconstruction for 2019 will involve portions of Scotch …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer HOWARD – The possibility of revising the village code to allow homes damaged by more than 50 percent of their current local assessed value to be rebuilt in non-conforming districts is under consideration by the Howard Plan Commission. Commission members agreed at their March meeting to table the issue for …
DE PERE – West De Pere High School student Sawyer Grovogel, son of Timothy and Amy Grovogel and an incoming senior, has earned the highest possible ACT composite score of 36. Approximately two-tenths of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. In the U.S. high school graduating class of 2018, …
By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – Those who dare to plant themselves in a seat at Birder Studio’s Broadway Theatre this weekend may find themselves consumed by laughter. “Little Shop of Horrors” is a fast-paced musical about Seymour, an employee of a barely surviving floral shop on Skid Row, who, during a complete solar …
GREEN BAY – The Children’s Museum of Green Bay recently announced it will be moving this spring to a location across from Bay Beach Amusement Park. “It’s no secret – especially to those who regularly visit the Children’s Museum – that we are out of space where we are currently located,” said Museum Executive Director …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer HOWARD – Ed Janke has returned as the village’s public safety director nearly three years after the person who replaced him began the position. Janke, who became chief deputy of the Oconto County Sheriff’s Office in 2016, came back to Howard earlier this year to replace Don Phillips, who had …
By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – Before spending money on a plan for installing air conditioning throughout Ashwaubenon High School, Valley View and Pioneer elementary schools, the board of education wants to know if district residents would support the project. The district’s business director, Keith Lucius, informed the board at its meeting Wednesday, March …
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By Ben Rodgers Editor SUAMICO – A sure sign of longer and warmer days can be seen paddling peacefully inside the aviary at the NEW Zoo. Ducks at the zoo are this month’s Animals of the Month and right now is the best time to pay them a visit as their plumage colors are getting …
