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Highlights this issue:
Summer Fun & Entertainment – Special Section – pg. 24
Love of toilets earns dream trip – pg. 2
Thiel takes 1st – pg. 6
Charter crew rescues man – pg. 12
NEW Local Word Search – pg. 12
KOHLER – When planning for a family vacation, most kids want to take a trip to Disney World to see their favorite characters come to life. That’s not the case for five-year-old Joey from Fort Wayne, Indiana. His ideal family vacation is in Kohler– specifically the Kohler Design Center, home of the company’s bathroom design showroom. With the help of a few new friends, Joey was able to live out his dream vacation.
Pitcher Taylor Schwarz, a 2007 graduate of South, was inducted into the Sheboygan A’s Hall of Fame Saturday at Wildwood Baseball Park.
As the popularity of youth travel sports escalates, so do the challenges, complexities, and questions.
In his first Midwest Sprint Car Association start of the season, Sheboygan’s Scotty Thiel drove to a convincing victory in the caution-free 25-lap main event to highlight the MSA’s fourth annual appearance at Eagle River Speedway on July 4.
Plymouth resident Jordan Bradley and Josh Genske of Howards Grove recently helped save a man’s life from 56-degree water off the shore of Sheboygan.
The resort destination Kohler, Wisconsin announced the reopening of Woodlake Market on July 17. The renewed market brings together premium groceries, elevated prepared foods, wellness-minded products, café, gathering spaces, and an artisanal chocolate boutique under one roof.
“Remember when Kmart told everyone they could ‘ship my pants’? Well, we almost did while trying to keep this a secret”, says Adam Kroener, “because we bought the Kmart building.” After sitting vacant for more than a decade, one of Plymouth’s most recognizable commercial properties is getting a new purpose.
The other day I was arriving at O’Hare where I was to meet a friend and we would take his car to Sheboygan. His flight was delayed and eventually cancelled. My options were to stay overnight at an airport hotel, work my way towards downtown Chicago and surprise my son, or find a way to get to Sheboygan using public transportation. I love a good challenge so the last option seemed like a good challenge.
“You can make only one mistake with dynamite,” legendary explosives expert George “Dynamite Bill” Gardner told the Plymouth Kiwanis Club in the summer of 1943.
I can still remember the first time I went to Bing Drewry’s farm to help him harvest sweet corn. It was more than a decade ago, when I was a young farmer and Bing was an old man living on the Drewry homestead down on Winooski Road. He was a nice neighbor who I was just getting acquainted with, and our shared love of growing vegetables led us to become good friends in his last years of life.
