Parents urged Kiel High School to respond to racial bullying their teen faced at school. Backlash forced him to transfer — and upended life for others in town.
I learned a long time ago that we don’t live in a black-and-white world and the choices between right and wrong or good and evil are often veiled in shades of gray – no matter what the political ads say.
It’s easy to be vague. It’s challenging to think – and communicate – in specifics, writes veteran sales train John Foust in his most recent "Ad-Libs" column.
Specifics are meaningful and generalities wander all over the place, without much significance at all. Generalities have no sticking power. Foust looks at two areas of sales that have a particular need for specificity.
Oneida County sheriff Grady Hartman will be honored with the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's inaugural Sunshine in Government award.
The award, launched this year by the WNA Board of Directors, recognizes efforts by Wisconsin citizens and public officials to protect and strengthen open government. It will be presented during the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame Banquet on Thursday, Nov. 10, at The Madison Club in downtown Madison.
Beverly Klein, who had a 32-year career with The (Milwaukee) Journal Company, died on Sept. 29, at the age of 95.
Born on July 16, 1927, in Wisconsin, to Frank and Evelyn Bolger, Klein began her advertising career as a part-time classified ad taker in 1961. She retired in 1993 as senior vice president of marketing, after rising through the ranks at a time when it was rare for women to have careers at all, let alone be executives, writes Genevieve Redsten of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Jonathan Stefonek, managing editor of the Lodi Enterprise & Poynette Press, has been writing stories most of his life. Now, he has written a book, reports Bridget Cooke of the Portage Daily Register.
“The Adventures of Carol and Boscobel,” features two cats who escaped from an animal shelter. Disillusioned by humanity, the pair flee to the wild to live a more authentic, feral life. But being domesticated cats, they run into some problems along the way.
The Frank Wood Media Newsroom was dedicated Monday at UW-Green Bay’s new media center in honor of the late publisher, reports The (Green Bay) Press Times.
Wood, who was inducted into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2002, owned Brown County Publishing, the Green Bay News-Chronicle, and other weekly papers in the area. The newsroom is one of many spaces in the new media center — a $5.7 million renovation that coincides with the rebirth of student-run media at UW-Green Bay.
Reporter Joe Schulz is leaving the Ripon Commonwealth Press to take a job with a statewide news organization, he announced last week in a farewell column.
In order to be certified to publish legal notices in 2023, newspapers must submit their legal notice recertification paperwork by Oct. 31.
Wisconsin newspapers can find their recertification paperwork by clicking here. Details instructions were sent via email by state Procurement Specialist Bill Goff (william2.goff@wisconsin.gov) on Oct. 3.
Wisconsin communities will take up questions about legalizing marijuana, election administration, clean water, abortion, and local levy increases on the November ballot.
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