By Heather Graves Editor BROWN COUNTY – Two teams skating counterclockwise around a flat, oval track pushing, shoving and knocking each other over – to the untrained eye, it might look like a brawl on skates, but according to a jammer and two blockers from right here in Brown County, roller derby is actually a …
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By Press Times Staff HOBART – The Village Board approved a preliminary plat for the proposed North Autumn Joy Subdivision when it met April 19. Proposed by current owners Richard and Kristine Vande Hei, the single-family plat located at 1260 S. Pine Tree Rd., called for the creation of six new single-family lots, along with …
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By Freddy Moyano Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – It’s common to see baby wild animals outside during spring, and as the tiny offspring set out on their own, sometimes danger moves in. That’s the story with this month’s Rehabilitation Animal of the Month, a seven-day-old eastern cottontail rabbit – who was brought to the Bay Beach …
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By Mara Allen Intern PULASKI – It’s a bird, it’s a plane! Nope, it’s a skydiver. For the past four years, Skydive Freefall Adventure, a family-owned business on the outskirts of Green Bay, has strived to provide its customers with the best “jumping out of a perfectly-working airplane” experience possible. With more than 30 years …
Howard Village Board No Mow May The Village Board approved a resolution to allow its residents to participate in a No Mow May initiative this year. Village Administrator Paul Evert said the item found its way to the agenda after staff received requests from residents each of the last two years wanting to participate in …
PULASKI – Pulaski High School graduate (2010) and Olympian Deedra Irwin stopped by her old stomping grounds, visiting students at Glenbrook Elementary – her former grade school. Irwin shared her story of competing with the U.S. biathlon team and placing seventh in the women’s 15K biathlon in the February winter Olympics in China.She finished 1.04.1 …
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By Tori Wittenbrock Intern BROWN COUNTY – Each year, an evening is set aside to highlight the above-and-beyond efforts of teachers and teaching teams throughout Brown County.The 29th annual Golden Apple Awards, hosted by Greater Green Bay Chamber, was held April 20, at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center to again extend those honors.“It is …
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By Heather Graves Editor DE PERE – Little did Joy St. Pierre know when she made the decision to leave her office job to start doing henna, she’d still be plugging away at it 13 years later.“I hated working in a cube under fluorescent lights, but now I have a 10×10 cube outside with a …
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By Heather Graves Editor GREEN BAY – The City of Green Bay had reason to celebrate this Earth Day, April 22, as it announced it received an $87,000 comprehensive energy planning grant from The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC). “I think we were the second highest scoring grant application in this category,” Genrich said. …
Green Bay officer narrowly missed in hit-and-run GREEN BAY – A Green Bay police officer was conducting a traffic stop Tuesday, April 26 when his police motorcycle was rear-ended by another motorist. The officer was standing next to the motorcycle entering data into the mobile data terminal attached to the bike, when the crash occurred, …
