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Highlights this issue:
Seven-year-old entrepreneur – pg. 2
Playoffs begin – pg. 5
Sheboygan’s early firefighters – pg. 9
Money Matters – Special Section – pg. 36
When thinking about the prototypical business owner, an elementary school student probably doesn’t come to mind.
Former Plymouth High School teacher Marcie K. Zimmerman, 44 of St. Cloud, charged with sexually assaulting one of her female students in 2023, pleaded no contest and was found guilty of two felony counts in a Fond du Lac court on Oct.6.
The late Ronald Scheele, a 1966 Lakeland University graduate and Sheboygan native who had an accomplished career as an educator and scientist in the field of medical physics, always traced the roots to his success back to the support he received at Lakeland.
Melissa Neeb gets emotional when she talks about Madelyn Van Denend, whether it’s how the Christian senior overcame a season-ending basketball injury last year or reaching 1,000 volleyball kills last week.
There’s a number of reasons the Milwaukee Brewers are in the World Series.
Video of Jackson Chourio’s game-winning hit Oct. 4 has been seen countless number of times by Brewer fans.
John Anthony Meise, 36, of Waukesha, passed away unexpectedly and tragically on Sunday, October 4, 2026, while running the Milwaukee Lakefront Half-Marathon.
In the mid-1860s image above which is one of the earliest known photos of Sheboygan’s volunteer firefighters, members of Fire Protection Company No. 1 – accompanied by some of their wives and children – are gathered on North 8th Street just north of Erie Avenue, facing west. The building in back of them was J.M. Heinzelmann’s boot and shoe store.
Artwork has been a recurring topic of conversation in recent weeks at the farm. It has mostly been discussed while dangling from the rafters of our construction project—a new pole shed—and in reference to whatever bit of carpentry we happened to be scrutinizing.
