“Sheboygan pays tribute to its favorite daughter,” read the front-page Sheboygan Press headline on Monday, September 14, 1959, after weeks of excitement culminated in 20-year-old hometown girl Mary Alice Fox being named first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant.
SHEBOYGAN — Some October nights call for a themed cocktail and a live band. One calls for a leash. Nine evenings this fall will welcome families to Bookworm Gardens for Happily Haunted, the annual Halloween tradition built around stories, twinkling lights, a bonfire, and room to wander.
The Beacon’s reporting in the July 28 edition on the county’s roadside herbicide spraying program prompted what seemed like a natural question: where specifically were these various chemicals sprayed, and when? Beyond a single county webpage describing the spraying program, the county did not provide any public notice of these specifics.
The City of Sheboygan is eager to clarify the genesis and intention of the data center speaker series due to significant speculation circulating online regarding the purpose of these events.
SHEBOYGAN — River Fest is back and better than ever! The Harbor Centre Sheboygan invites the community to celebrate at this one-day festival along the scenic Riverfront Drive boardwalk on Saturday, September 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Last year, hundreds of Sheboygan County residents and tourists visited the riverfront during the event.
The Sheboygan Film Festival (SFF) returns for its second year after a successful inaugural run. Over 80 films will be presented to festivalgoers in venues throughout downtown Sheboygan from October 1st through 4th, 2026. In addition, parties, dinners, filmmaker Q&As, workshops, and more are all scheduled during the event.
Whatever the sun touches, it turns to gold. Such is autumn in our part of Wisconsin, and nowhere more than beneath the canopy of a woodland thick with maple and oak trees.
SHEBOYGAN — With guidance from the Common Council, the City of Sheboygan has coordinated a comprehensive educational speaker series focused on data centers and their potential impacts on the community and region.
In conjunction with our reporting on the county-wide herbicide spraying program on public rights of way, The Beacon filed a public records request with the Sheboygan County Transportation Department on July 15 requesting records which list or map all Sheboygan County and local municipality roads treated with herbicides this year.
What do you think about the Sheboygan County Transportation Department’s program to spray herbicides on most Sheboygan County rights-of-way? Click here to take our survey.
