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Jones steps down as editor of Lake Geneva Regional News

Jan. 19, 2023

After a 15-year journalism career, Lake Geneva Regional News editor Stephanie Jones is leaving the field to become a teacher, she announced in a column Wednesday.

A 2007 graduate from UW-Milwaukee, Jones interned at the Green Bay Press-Gazette before joining The (Racine) Journal Times as a reporter. She was named managing editor of the Times in 2016 and became editor of its sister paper, the Regional News, in 2020. She also served as a member of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board's first reader advisory committee.

Devlin named local news editor at Lake Geneva Regional News

Jan. 19, 2023

Travis Devlin, who has served as a sports reporter for the Lake Geneva Regional News since October 2021, has been named the newspaper’s local news editor. His appointment follows the resignation of Regional News editor Stephanie Jones.

A 2018 graduate of Bowling Green State University, Devlin previously worked as a sports reporter for the Athens (Alabama) News Courier, the Sidney (Montana) Herald and The BG News in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Another year, another big race – this time for Supreme Court

Jan. 19, 2023

Now comes another big race — this time for former Chief Justice Pat Roggensack’s seat and a 10-year term on the state Supreme Court.

Five things to add for your ’23 vacation plans

Jan. 19, 2023

The column is produced by the husband and wife team of Bill Barth and Stephanie Klett. Bill is the former Editor of the Beloit Daily News, and a member of the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame. Stephanie is the President and CEO of Visit Lake Geneva, and the former Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Tourism.

Cigarette sales go up in smoke

Jan. 18, 2023

Legal sales of cigarettes have plummeted in recent years, meaning Wisconsin state government is receiving much less in revenue from cigarette taxes.

In rural Wisconsin, former employees lift curtain on troubled crypto mine

Jan. 18, 2023

An energy intensive Bitcoin mining operation in Park Falls can’t replace a once vibrant paper mill, but it has created new conflicts and a cautionary tale

ISWNE’s Golden Quill award nominations due Feb. 1

Jan. 17, 2023

The International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors (ISWNE) is accepting entries for its annual Golden Quill editorial writing contest. The deadline to enter is Feb. 1.

Entries must have been published between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2022. All non-daily newspapers are eligible to enter. Online-only newspapers must be considered community news sites. Cost is $10 per entry for ISWNE members, $15 per entry for non-members and $5 per entry for students.

Deer crash brings collateral damage

Jan. 17, 2023

I don’t play the lottery and don’t frequent casinos, but if I were a betting man, I’d lay odds that sometime in the next few years I will be involved in a deer-vehicle collision.

Blankenburg, UW-Madison professor emeritus, dies at 90

Jan. 13, 2023

William Burl Blankenburg, professor emeritus of the UW-Madison School of Journalism, died on Jan. 1, in Palo Alto, California, at the age of 90.

In 1968, Blankenburg moved to Madison to accept a teaching position at UW. In his nearly 30-year academic career, he instructed thousands of undergraduate journalism students, advised countless master's and Ph.D. candidates, and published original research and books in the field of newspaper economics and the societal effects of mass media.

State and local tax burden falls to new low after $1 billion cut

Jan. 11, 2023

Wisconsin’s state and local tax burden fell again in 2022 to its lowest level on record, due to a $1 billion-a-year income tax cut, tight limits on property taxes, and strong growth in residents’ incomes.