About half of Milwaukee Public Schools buildings lack full or partial air conditioning, risking learning loss. The district has no plan for major upgrades.
Lawsuits and court decisions appear to be an increasing option for those upset with state policy and the big GOP majorities in the Legislature.
A divorce is finalized, but it is not recorded in the newspaper until four months later.
Sam Bailey, who graduated this year from Emporia State University in Kansas with a degree in communications, has joined the Sheboygan Press as a reporter. She will cover local government and general news.
Bailey served as managing editor for The Bulletin student newspaper at ESU and as editor of The Hutchinson Collegian at Hutchinson Community College. She was named Kansas Collegiate Media Journalist of the Year twice — for four-year schools in 2023 and for two-year schools in 2021. She also recently completed an internship with the Kansas Reflector, an affiliate of States Newsroom.
Eric Wharton, who graduated this year from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, with a degree in journalism, has joined the staff of Adams Publishing of Southern Wisconsin. He will serve as the new arts and culture reporter for several Dane County communities.
A native of Centerburg, Ohio, Wharton is passionate about the arts, particularly music and painting, and enjoys writing nonfiction stories about his travels.
Stuart M. Shapiro, former publisher of the Belleville Recorder, died Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the age of 82.
A graduate from the business school at UW-Madison, he married Wendy Adams in 1983. Shortly thereafter, he took over operation of the Belleville Recorder, which had been owned by Wendy's parents. Through his efforts at the Recorder, as well as volunteer work with local organizations, Shapiro became a relentless booster for the village of Belleville.
Ethan Ferrell, who graduated this year from UW-Madison with a degree in journalism, has joined the staff of Adams Publishing of Southern Wisconsin. He will report on the villages of DeForest, Windsor, Waunakee, Marshall and McFarland, along with the cities of Monona and Sun Prairie.
A Madison native who grew up in McFarland and graduated from McFarland High School, he is passionate about local government and writing. While in college, Ferrell wrote for The Badger Herald student newspaper and served as an international communications intern with CESI, a technical consulting and engineering company serving the electric power sector based in Milan, Italy.
Sue Mizell, publisher of The Globe in Ironwood, Mich., has retired after 34 years in the industry and 11 years with the newspaper. In 2012, Mizell was named publisher of The Daily Globe, which transitioned to a weekly in September 2022. Before joining Stevenson Newspapers, she worked for the Sidney (Neb.) Telegraph, Media News Group – owner of the Denver Post, and newspapers in New Mexico, Idaho and Colorado.
Mizell is succeeded by former advertising director Heidi Ofstad, a native of Ironwood Township who graduated from Luther L. Wright High School. Ofstad joined the newspaper 20 years ago, starting in circulation.
Andris Straumanis, a longtime journalism professor and adviser at UW-River Falls, died Monday, Sept. 11, at the age of 66.
A native of Long Island, New York, Straumanis was a first-generation Latvian-American, his parents having immigrated to the United States two years before he was born. Before joining academia in the 90s, he worked as a photographer, writer and editor at the Minnesota Real Estate Journal, the Elk River (Minn.) Star News, the Monticello (Minn.) Times, and the (Elburn, Ill.) Chronicle West. He was a faculty advisor to The Student Voice, a student-run news organization at the UW-River Falls, where he taught classes in print and online journalism.
Mary Kunasch, longtime publisher of the Waushara Argus, has retired from the newspaper after 56 years. Her last day was Friday, Sept. 29.
Kunasch began setting type at the newspaper in 1967. She worked her way up to production manager and became publisher in 1985.
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