The Washington Island Observer has established a grant program in honor of former managing editor Mary Marik, who died on Dec. 27.
The Mary Marik Community Grant Program will recognize Washington Island nonprofits that make it "a better place to live, work and visit." Two to three grant recipients will be awarded $1,000 annually.
Burlington native Lauren Henning has joined APG Media of Southern Wisconsin as a regional education reporter. She will cover schools for The Cambridge News and Deerfield Independent and The (Cottage Grove) Herald Independent and McFarland Thistle.
Henning previously was the education reporter for The (Racine) Journal Times. She earned her journalism degree in 2021 from UW-Madison, where she was a reporter and editor for The Badger Herald student newspaper.
Kelly Lecker, a veteran journalist and Wisconsin native, has been named executive editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. She succeeds Jason Adrians, who was named vice president of local news for Lee Enterprises in January.
Lecker is the interim editor and managing/investigative editor for the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, where she has spent the last 13 years. Prior to joining the Gannett-owned newspaper, she served as an editor at The Toledo (Ohio) Blade and worked as a reporter for The (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Journal Gazette. She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism and Spanish from UW-Stevens Point.
Gannett will close its West Milwaukee production facility and move the printing of its 11 Wisconsin newspapers to Peoria, Ill., effective May 15. The change in printing location is not expected to impact home delivery times, said Rob Schafman, director of distribution for the Journal Sentinel.
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The move — Gannett’s third major printing facility closure in Wisconsin over the last five years — comes as the company becomes increasingly digital and subscription-led, Gannett representatives said.
As state officials have cut income taxes by billions of dollars during the past decade, average tax rates have declined for most Wisconsinites, but rates for those at the bottom of the income ladder have risen.
The U.S. Supreme Court looks to have the last word on whether Evers’ maps are in place for the 2022 elections. But unless GOP lawmakers are successful in their appeals to the nation’s highest court, the landscape for the Assembly and Senate maps are a lot different from what Republicans put in place 11 years ago.
The coming spring always brings fresh hope and optimism, but with planting season just around the corner, there are plenty of challenges facing farmers.
WNA member newspapers are encouraged to participate in Sunshine Week, the News Leaders Association's annual nationwide celebration of open government. This year's celebration is set for March 13-19.
Newspapers can get involved by publishing stories, editorials, cartoons or graphics on open government and the public's right to know. Journalists and news organizations also are encouraged to share their experiences, success stories, FOIA battles and more by tweeting @SunshineWeek or using the hashtag #SunshineWeek.
Eric A. Johnson, a veteran journalist and former newspaper owner, has joined the Lake Geneva Regional News as a reporter.
Johnson is the former editor and publisher of the Boulder Junction-based FYI Northwoods News, a bi-weekly newspaper he owned from 2010 to 2018. Prior to his move to Lake Geneva, he served as assistant editor of the Vilas County News-Review in Eagle River, as a business reporter for The (Racine) Journal Times, and as a reporter for The Lakeland Times in Minocqua.
Carol Illean Aultman, a former journalist whose career included a stop at The Platteville Journal, died Wednesday, March 2, at her home in rural Highland, Wis. She was 79.
Aultman's first job was at Associated Publishers in Durand, Ill. She spent 15 years with the company and later served as editor of one of its newspapers, the Winnebago News. After she and her husband, Leland, moved to Highland in 1977, she joined the staff of The Platteville Journal.
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