Following the recent release of the Healthy Sheboygan County Community Health Assessment reporting that mental health is Sheboygan County’s top public health concern, MHA Lakeshore is taking additional action throughout the month of May and beyond.
Two picked for Athletic Club Hall of Fame
The Sheboygan Athletic Club annual Hall of Fame weekend is scheduled for June 29-30 at Wildwood Baseball Park.
Richard Schneider and Mike Feudner make up the second class of inductees to the Hall’s “Contributor” wing.
A piece of WWII history finds a way home
A small wooden boat hand-crafted by a German at a Prisoner of War Camp in Plymouth in the mid-1940s will soon be on display at the city’s Historical Society.
South High casualties of Vietnam War honored
In observance of Memorial Day, The Beacon is continuing its two-part series, begun during Veterans Day month last November, to recognize local high school alumni killed in action during the Vietnam War. In this installment, we will focus on seven soldiers from Sheboygan South High School.
Court Report – May 14, 2024
Click Here to open the full issue e-Edition (PDF)
School building plans get mixed response
If the size and mood of the crowd at two recent community input sessions was any indication, one part of the Sheboygan Area School District’s plan to rebuild the aging and outdated Urban and Farnsworth Middle Schools may be more controversial than the other – although there is organized opposition to both.
Wilderness Journal – No turkeys, but seven puppies
This week I hunted hard for turkey during the second season in zone 1 and I did all of my hunting in a large oak forest directly behind my house in northern Juneau County. Along with turkey hunting, my 2-year-old golden retriever Red was due to give birth to her first litter.
Kaiser agrees to plea deal for theft
Krisi L. Kaiser, 43, formerly of Sheboygan, currently Waldo, agreed to a deal with prosecutors May 20 to plead no contest to one felony count of theft for stealing over $168,000 over the span of five years from the Sheboygan County Home Builders Association, where she worked as the association’s sole employee at the time.
Library packed for ‘listening session’ on waterfront and marina
If the overwhelming turnout at the first public meeting for the $12 million Sheboygan Waterfront and Marina Revitalization Project was any indication, interest is surging as strong as the spring surf.
Woman sentenced to 11 years in prison for homicide
Sheboygan woman Makita M. Jones, 26, was sentenced to 11 years in prison May 17 for causing the death of Angela Williams, 37, of Sheboygan, who was a passenger in Jones’s car when Jones drove off a North Ave., Sheboygan cliff last September.