De Pere City CouncilLegion pool replacement plan discussedThe Common Council approved a tentative timetable for the replacement of the swimming pool at Legion Park in a 5-2 vote Tuesday, July 20. Technical design for the new pool will be done in 2025, with construction starting the following year, pending a review of the economic climate …
By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – On Monday, April 19, the De Pere school board put on hold a vote to end the orchestra program for fourth-graders, because some board members wanted more information. Foxview Intermediate School currently offers orchestra to its fourth- and fifth-grade students. The question of ending the orchestra option for …
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By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – Whether it’s homelessness or hopelessness that causes a student to fall through the cracks, school social workers fill in the gaps. Recently, the Wisconsin School Social Workers Association named Melanie Brick the State School Social Worker of the Year. Brick is the Unified School District of De Pere’s …
By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – With enrollment numbers projected to jump over the next several years, the De Pere school board looked at the feasibility of expanding Foxview Intermediate School and De Pere Middle School. At a committee meeting Monday, May 6, representatives from Berners-Schober Associates showed conceptual drawings and results of studies …
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DigiGirlz gets girls excited for technology By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – On Thursday, April 25, the Foxview Intermediate School library teemed with fifth- and sixth-graders. Not in itself odd, given that it’s a school. But these kids – about 57 out of 60 of them – are girls. It’s DigiGirlz, part of Microsoft’s …
By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – It’s said that a person never forgets how to ride a bike. Now, two De Pere boys want to give kids in foster care a chance to make memories of their own by giving them their own bikes. Ben Nusbaum and Brett Weckwerth, sixth graders at Foxview Intermediate …
