Wisconsin is doing extremely well.”
So says Wisconsin Department of Revenue Secretary Peter Barca, who spoke to a full house last week at Pier 290’s Upper Deck meeting space in Williams Bay.
Sometimes the beauty of the fall is as fleeting as the smile of a shy girl.
Leonard Wagner, a longtime writer and editor for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, died Tuesday, Oct. 10, in Omro. Wagner earned a degree in history in 1958 from St. Norbert College. In college, he played baseball, wrote for the St. Norbert Times student newspaper and served as an assistant in the college news bureau.
After graduating, he began working for the Press-Gazette and its radio station WJPG, where he continued on part-time after being named director of news services at St. Norbert in 1959. In 1961, he joined the Press-Gazette as a full-time sports writer and in 1968, he was named sports editor. He also served as news editor, features editor and columnist over the years. He remained with the newspaper for more than 30 years, retiring in 1992.
Ben Priesgen, a vegetable farmer and local official, has joined the staff of the Dodge County Pionier, the newspaper has announced. In the new role, he will cover local sports, Lomira community stories and Village of Theresa government.
A Lomira native, Priesgen has a degree in management from UW-Oshkosh and is the owner of Country Blossom Organics. He also serves on the Dodge County Board of Supervisors and previously served on the Village of Lomira Board of Trustees.
The contest submission deadline is 10:59 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27.
Wisconsin likely will again be the tipping point in the 2024 presidential election with Joe Biden and Donald Trump neck and neck in seven battleground states, Marquette Law Poll Director Charles Franklin told the annual WisPolitics.com Polling Summit.
Amid the pandemic, health officials worried that debate and misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines could influence public attitudes toward other vaccinations.
As you move into your new apartment, you might not be thinking much about the security deposit.
Let’s set the record straight – I am not an economist – which the Bureau of Labor Statistics defines as “an expert who studies the relationship between a society’s resources and its production or output, using a number of different indicators, in order to predict future trends.”
Pat Schroeder, daughter of the former owners of the Lake Mills Leader, died on Oct. 5, at the age of 95. Born in Elmhurst, Illinois, the family moved to Lake Mills to run the newspaper when she was 8 years old. She was a 1946 graduate of Lake Mills High School and went on to earn her bachelor's degree in journalism from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and her master's degree in social work from the University of Kentucky at Louisville.
During college, she worked at her parents' newspaper. She then went on to become editor of the Madison-based Jackson Clinic's Better Health Magazine and spent many years as a therapist with families and children at the Comprehensive Mental Health Services for Delaware County.
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