Friday, June 3, is the last day to register for this year’s WNA Trees Retreat next week in Eagle River.
During the retreat, we'll remember Pylon honorees from 2020, 2021 and 2022. Come a day early and join us for the annual golf outing and traditional steak fry in the WNA Press Forest.
A new Wisconsin Policy Forum analysis finds areas for potential economic improvement in Kenosha County that local policymakers and business and civic leaders may wish to consider.
As Outagamie County district attorney, Vince Biskupic let potential defendants buy their way out of trouble. As a judge, he offered deals that fell in a ‘gray area’ of the law.
Statistically speaking, the roads in Scotland are much safer than in Wisconsin. But it didn’t quite feel that way for Chris Hardie and his wife during a recent trip abroad.
Asked if he would consider someone for the post who believes the last presidential election was fraudulent, Vos said he wants his new appointee to concentrate on a “fair election in 2022” who’s not going to “focus on 2020 and backward.”
Cameras in the courtroom can be helpful in promoting trust and confidence in the judicial process, writes Dan Shelley of Radio Television Digital News Association in the most recent “Your Right to Know” column from the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council. The column, which aims to promote open government, is available for republication.
Some of your most important life goals may focus on your family and money, including saving enough money for your children’s college and for your own retirement.
Mark Lewis, publisher and president for the Wisconn Valley Media Group, has been promoted to president of the Tulsa World Media Group. Lewis has served as publisher of The Times since 2009 and, following Lee Enterprises' acquisition of United Communications Corporation in 2019, his role of publisher was extended to the Kenosha News and Lake Geneva Regional News.
Stephanie Jones, editor of the Regional News and former editor of The Times, will oversee news as the southeastern Wisconsin regional editor. She will work directly with Adam Rogan, news editor of The Times, and John Sloca, news editor of the Kenosha News.
Alisyn Amant, a recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has joined the Wisconsin Media Group team and will cover community news for The Oregon Observer.
A Baraboo native, Amant and earned undergraduate degrees in journalism and English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. During her time at UW-Madison, she covered film and TV for The Daily Cardinal student newspaper and volunteered as a reporter for the Goodman Community Center, writing for the Eastside News. She also has spent time reporting for the Tomahawk Leader.
John "Jack" Knowles, former owner of the Hillsboro Sentry-Enterprise, died May1, 2022, following a battle with vascular dementia. He was 85.
Knowles spent the first 30 years of his journalism career at the Chicago Tribune, starting as a copy boy at 18 years old and working up to editor of the foreign news desk. He left the newspaper in 1989, moving his young family to a small farming community in Wisconsin and purchasing the Sentry-Enterprise. Knowles sold the newspaper to Morris Newspaper Corporation of Wisconsin in 2004.
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