Readers recall rural schoolhouse memories
Nov. 24, 2020
Chris Hardie’s recent column about the Highland School in Jackson County and other one-room schoolhouses brought back memories for many readers.
Chris Hardie’s recent column about the Highland School in Jackson County and other one-room schoolhouses brought back memories for many readers.
Two counties that went for Trump last time — Sauk and Door — voted for Biden in 2020. But many other swing counties in the state went red.
Are you ready for to cook up my delicious Chicken Marsala recipe? If you don’t have the proper ingredients, just make do with what you got.
From billboards to television to direct mail, there is a lot that newspapers can learn from other advertising sources.
Veteran sales trainer John Foust takes a look at seven different advertising platforms — and what can be learned from them.
Health care workers scrambled to treat patients on a day when 92 Wisconsin lives were reported lost. Outside of the hospital, politicians postured.
Despite the highest unemployment rate on record this year and hundreds of school buildings empty since March, Wisconsin voters approved school referendums this month at near-record rates. The results speak particularly loudly given that they happened in a high-turnout election and in communities carried by both presidential candidates.
My 45th hunting season this year will be sad because my hunting partner and mentor is gone. The woods will seem empty. But Dad will be there nevertheless. Because his memories and stories remain.
A new two-year legislative session begins in January, and for the first time in years, majority Republicans have a new majority leaderand a new co-chair of the budget committee.
Richard “Dick” McCord, who in the mid-1990s had a brief tenure as editor of the Door County Advocate, died Wednesday, Oct. 7, in Santa Fe, N.M. He was 79.
McCord was hired by then-Advocate owner Frank Wood to serve as editor of the Sturgeon Bay weekly newspaper.
After retiring, he wrote several books, including “The Chain Gang: One Newspaper versus the Gannett Empire,” which detailed Wood’s efforts to continue publishing the Green Bay News-Chronicle after Gannett had purchased the city’s other daily newspaper, the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
The Center for Journalism Ethics is seeking nominations for the Anthony Shadid Award for Journalism Ethics, the Center announced Monday. The deadline for submitting nominations is Jan. 15, 2021.
The Shadid Award, now in its 12th year, recognizes ethical decisions in reporting stories in any medium, including print, broadcast and digital, by journalists working for established news organizations or publishing individually. The award focuses on current journalism and does not include books, documentaries or other long-term projects.
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