Obituaries
April 21 – May 4, 2020
University to invest $26 million in new dorms
Lakeland University learned Thursday it has received a $35.4 million fixed-rate low interest loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development division that will finance the largest investment in its Sheboygan County-based main campus in the institution’s 158-year history.
Four lanes to Fondy restarted
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) Northeast Region announces construction for the State 23 expansion project in Sheboygan County resumes Monday, Apr. 6.
AP’s all-state team features two from LHS
Making the WBCA all-state team is nice and all, but a spot on the Associated Press team is a bit better.
The AP last week choose Lutheran senior Jacob Ognacevic for its first team and sophomore teammate Casey Verhagen earned honorable mention.
Hoping for the call of ‘play ball!’
The meeting was the hardest part.
A few hours before the governor announced on March 13 he was shutting down schools, North baseball coach Steve Goes held a voluntary meeting with his team so he could prepare them for what he thought was coming and what inevitably happened: major delays to the start of spring sports.
North, South play the waiting game
Brianna Schaefer was ready to become a pitcher again, but like every spring sport, that has been put on hold.
“It’s kind of depressing,” the South junior said.
Switching positions is nothing new for Schaefer, who was also a pitcher as a freshman before moving to third base in 2019.
This is not what coaches had in mind this spring
North’s Ted Schermetzler was painting and Kohler/Christian’s Duane DuMez was getting a head start on work around the house.
The track and field coaches obviously rather be running practices and overseeing meets.
Spring Capsules
BASEBALL KOHLER/CHRISTIAN AT A GLANCE Last year: 2-10 in BEC (4-14) LOWDOWN n Junior Hunter Fihn is the returning top hitter as a result of a .286 batting average last season. […]
COVID-19 emergency poses threat to food security
The COVID-19 public health emergency is creating an urgent food security challenge for households and communities in Wisconsin. Even before the pandemic, one in eleven households in the state were food insecure, meaning they didn’t have assured access to the food they needed. For poor and low-income households, the risk was already much higher. While it’s too soon to know how much worse the situation will get, there are reasons for concern – and for communities, the state, and the nation to take action.