Place Name: First Place Contestant Name: Door County Advocate Entry Title: Sturgeon Bay bowling alley and arcade wins $160,000 loan for affordable workforce housing Entry Credit: Christopher Clough Judge Comment: A trio of stories about business happenings. Writing is decent, though the NFL draft story was a little vague. This entry showed the most diverse set of stories about business.
Place Name: Second Place Contestant Name: Muscoda Progressive Entry Title: How to grow the perfect steak Entry Credit: Joe Hart, Barb Puckett Judge Comment: This was just a one-story feature entry, but it was pretty good, as was the author's other single-story entry. A combined entry would have been stronger.
Place Name: Third Place Contestant Name: Neenah News Entry Title: Family hardware store unaffected by court proceedings Entry Credit: Bethanie Gengler Judge Comment: A nice single-story feature story about a local hardware store with a strong news peg of the franchise filing for bankruptcy and how that filing will affect the local store. Too bad it is a single-story entry.
Place Name: Honorable Mention Contestant Name: Crawford County Independent & The Kickapoo Scout Entry Title: Amidst a fine apple crop - orchards buy other orchards; Harvest is done: good yields and bad prices; Anna Davidson - Nothing but energy Entry Credit: Charley Preusser Judge Comment: The feature writing is stronger than the news writing, but the story mix of news and features is good.
