Kohler News

High school can be brutal, with the struggle to fit in, prepare for college and live independently.

If you ask Lillian Goethke, the fact that she's still taking in alterations and sewing for people at the age of 98 is only slightly more unusual than being a seamstress in the first place.

KOHLER, Wis. Jan. 29, 2010 The voices of Diane "Deedles" Schuur and Bobby Caldwell - whose music has inspired scores of young, modern jazz artists - will make a one- night performance stop at the Kohler Memorial Theatre on Friday, Feb.

Officials are finalizing plans for the next phase of a now decades-old project to dredge contaminated sediments from the Sheboygan River.

The Sheboygan Area School District has its share of problems, most of them related to its budget, but one area it's improving in is its ability to attract students from outside the district.

A Kohler whirlpool bathtub valued at $14,000 was reported stolen over the weekend from a home under construction in the Town of Sheboygan, according to the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department.

The Kohler School Board will get to work right away replacing Superintendent Bob Kobylski who is leaving the district after 18 months to take the same job at the larger Menasha School District.

The John Michael Kohler Arts Center has just opened "Eight Counties," a juried showcase of what is supposed to be some of the best art being made in central and eastern Wisconsin today.

Chilton artist Carol Austin will be featured in Eight Counties, an exhibition running Jan.

'Alter Egos,' an exhibition of new collaborative paintings by Wisconsin artists Kelli Hoppmann and Theresa Abel, opens Saturday, Jan.

The town's interim police chief is one of two finalists for the permanent post selected Wednesday.

Frederick G. 'Fritz' Widder, 82, of Kohler, passed away Monday, January 25, 2010 at the Sharon S. Richardson Community Hospice following a courageous battle with cancer.

Anyone who regularly attends church, regardless of denomination or dogma, goes with the hope of building a closer relationship with God and experiencing His love.

New Visions Gallery's annual fundraising event 'Fun d'Arts 2010' is taking its inspiration from the decorative arts of the 'Bloomsbury Group,' an informal loose association of English artists, writers, philosophers, political journalists and economists that gathered around the sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell from 1906 through the 1930s.

Two Fond du Lac artists will have their art featured in the Eight Counties exhibit, opening this weekend in Sheboygan.

"The Wisconsin Story" covers a lot of ground. Audiences of the musical will see a sweeping panorama of Wisconsin history: from the Black Hawk War to early explorations of Marquette and Joliet, to the Great Peshtigo Fire to the establishment of the American Club in Kohler to the Green Bay Packers' Super Bowl victory in New Orleans.

A primary is necessary in the Cedar Grove-Belgium School Board race as three challengers will go against incumbent Jeffrey Thiel, who holds the board's Ozaukee County seat.

Kami Ten Pas and Brian Hagel, both of West Allis, were married Sept. 19, 2009, at First Reformed Church, Oostburg.

A curious thing happens if you stand in front of a Cassy Tully painting long enough.

Samantha Terry, 12, spent her after school hours on Wednesday and Thursday at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center ARTery painting a sign, proclaiming, 'I Have a Dream.' Next to those words on the sign she used nearly every color in her palette to paint the face of the man famous for uttering them, Martin Luther King Jr.