Bountiful squash, a tire blowout and reader response
Nov. 22, 2021
The garden harvest season is long over, but we’re still enjoying the bounties. Sort of. Can squash be the main entree at holiday dinners?
The garden harvest season is long over, but we’re still enjoying the bounties. Sort of. Can squash be the main entree at holiday dinners?
Nearly 70 colleagues attended the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame banquet and fundraiser to pay tribute to their peers. The ceremony also took a moment to honor Hall of Fame member Bob Wills, a longtime open government champion and newspaper editor who died earlier this year.
This year’s class included Harland and Helen Everson, longtime publishers of The Edgerton Reporter; William “Bill” Hale, former owner of the Grant County Herald-Independent and other newspapers; Phil Haslanger, longtime editor and manager of The Capital Times; Margaret “Meg” Jones, former reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; J. Anthony Josey, founder of the state’s first successful newspaper, the Wisconsin Enterprise-Blade; and Lucius W. Nieman, founder of The Milwaukee Journal.
The Center for Journalism Ethics at UW-Madison is seeking nominations for the 2022 Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics. The deadline for submitting nominations is Jan. 18.
The Shadid Award, now in its 13th year, recognizes ethical decisions in reporting by journalists working for established news organizations or publishing individually. Winners of the Shadid Award receive a $1,000 prize and will be invited to accept the award and discuss their reporting at an awards ceremony in New York on May 17.
Jim Ferolie, a longtime editor and manager with a group of suburban Madison newspapers, has been named regional executive editor for APG Media of Southern Wisconsin.
Ferolie, a native of Rockford, Ill., takes over the role previously held by Sid Schwartz, who retired in April. In his new role, he will oversee six daily newspapers and nine weeklies, including the Beloit Daily News, The (Janesville) Gazette and the Watertown Daily Times.
Travis Devlin, a Michigan native and graduate of Bowling Green State University in Ohio, has joined the Lake Geneva Regional News sports staff.
In college, Devlin was a sports reporter for The BG News student newspaper and served as an intern for the Toledo (Ohio) Business Journal. He previously worked as a part-time radio producer for SiriusXM in Washington, D.C., and a sports reporter at the Sidney (Mont.) Herald and The Athens (Ala.) News Courier.
Tom LaVenture, a veteran of more than 20 years in the newspaper industry, has been named managing editor of the Price County Review. Most recently, LaVenture spent two years as a staff writer for The Daily Globe in Ironwood, Mich. He previously held reporting roles at The Jamestown (N.D.) Sun, The Garden Island newspaper in Lihue, Hawaii, and The Daily Journal in International Falls, Minn.
Matt Bablick and Dawn Damrow also recently joined the newspaper as multimedia account executives.
Growing numbers of fire and emergency medical services agencies in Wisconsin are struggling to maintain appropriate service levels in the face of numerous challenges, including increasing service calls from an aging population and staff recruitment and retention difficulties.
The crumbling remains of a two-story stone building along the Mississippi River are all that’s left of what was once a bustling brewery and hotel.
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman said he’s considering adding a fourth prong to his 2020 election review after watching the Racine County Sheriff’s Office announce results of its own investigation.
Current and former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel staffers have launched a scholarship fund in honor of longtime reporter Meg Jones, who will be inducted next week into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.
The scholarship will be awarded to journalism students from Wisconsin attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jones’ alma mater. Organizers hope to raise $50,000.
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