College senior and Medford native Shawna Konieczny has joined The Star News as a reporting intern.
Konieczny is currently attending Boston's Emerson College, studying screenwriting, film and books. While at Emerson, she has served as a staff writer for The Berkeley Beacon student newspaper, where her work has included stories on books, movies and TV, among other topics.
Bernice Schnell, who worked many years at the (Manitowoc) Herald Times Reporter, died Friday, May 14, in New Holstein. She was 88.
Schnell worked at the Herald Times Reporter until her retirement. Outside work, she enjoyed baking, camping and fishing, and she served as a 4H leader in Cleveland.
A little more than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin had lost more than 150,000 jobs from the same point a year earlier. Yet there are signs that this sizable blow to employment in Wisconsin was less severe than in neighboring states and the nation as a whole.
A new poll question about which large summer events readers plan to attend is available to be used by WNA members. We are asking the question as many annual summer events return amid the reduction of pandemic safety measures such as masks, distancing and capacity limits.
Poll questions are available through a WNA partnership with Polco aimed at helping newspapers better engage readers and access enhanced data and insights.
A sure sign of spring is yellow in the green — the annual appearance of the ubiquitous dandelion. You may hate how it looks in your lawn, but the dandelion does have its benefits.
Publisher Paul Fanlund on Monday announced several staffing changes at The Cap Times.
After two years as opinion editor, Jessie Opoien is moving back to a reporting role, joining Briana Reilly in covering the Wisconsin State Capitol. Taking over as opinion editor will be Steven Elbow, who has been a reporter with The Cap Times since 1999.
In additional moves, Fanlund noted that higher education reporter Yvonne Kim has left the newspaper to move out of state. As they look to fill her position, The Cap Times newsroom will be bolstered by two interns this summer, Cam Cieszki and Addison Lathers, both UW students.
On May 14, the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to create a rules process to ensure redistricting lawsuits go straight to the justices for consideration.
Black and African-American college graduates owe around $25,000 more in student loan debt on average than their white counterparts.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice’s Office of Open Government last week issued an advisory regarding the applicability of the state’s public records laws under Marsy’s Law.
The advisory instructs records custodians to continue applying the balancing test when responding to requests for records that contain information about crime victims, but notes the recent constitutional amendment strengthens the public policy interest in protecting victims’ rights.
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Yvonne (Gulligan) Pedersen, who with her husband was a co-owner of the Juneau County Star-Times in Mauston, died Wednesday, April 28, in Madison. She was 96.
In 1962, Yvonne and her former husband, Kenneth “Kenny” Bogert, moved to Mauston, where the couple, along with Larry Arnold, purchased the Mauston Star and Juneau County Chronicle. The newspapers were later merged with Arnold’s New Lisbon Times-Argus to form the Juneau County Star-Times.
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