Shawano News

Lots of sunshine on Sunday as a ridge of high pressure continued to drift across the Mid Mississippi Valley shifting winds from the Northwest to the West and helping temperatures warm into the 20s and even 30s in a few spots.

The bankruptcy judge who last month ordered the arrest of the business leader of a Wisconsin religious group has now told her to pay attorneys' fees in the case.

The city-owned Edison Club is returning to private ownership, with hopes that it will soon be entertainment and banquet facilities in the downtown core.

Thursday was the first day sturgeon spearers could cut holes in the ice on Lake Winnebago ahead of Saturday's season opener.

Hundreds of families in Northeastern Wisconsin have had help weatherizing their homes through an agency that has received millions of dollars in federal economic stimulus funding.

University of Wisconsin-Green Bay officials hope one-on-one training with tribal elders will help future educators better teach students about Native American culture.

The Antigo Common Council will take steps to resolve two lingering building issues Wednesday.

On Jan. 28, North East Wisconsin ARES/RACES and multiple partners in first response came together for a drill.

Just days after I wrote a column about the need for this country to not only ensure that all its public school students are fluent in English but also be able to communicate in other languages comes this story out of Shawano, Wis.: A 12-year-old was punished by a teacher for speaking a few non-English words in class.

SHAWANO, Wis. - The principal at Sacred Heart Catholic School said he did not intend to discriminate against a seventh-grader when he kept her from playing in a basketball game after she apparently used the Menominee language in class.

Shawano, WI - The principal of a Shawano school is apologizing to the family of a 12-year-old girl.

Edward C. Looker, 91, Sturgeon Bay, Wis., died Jan. 30, 2012. He was born Dec. 19, 1920, in Green Bay, Wis., the son of the late Lincoln and Helen Looker.

Josh Bintz of NEWCAP performs a blower door test while weatherizing a home Thursday in Ashwaubenon.

SHAWANO - Three people, including a 10-year-old child, were rescued from the roof of their car after the driver went into open water on Shawano Lake.

According to a news release, it happened just before 7 tonight. Authorities says Katie Atkinson, 24, of Round Lake, Illinois was attempting to drive off Lake Shawano when she drove into open water.

Superintendent Todd Carlson of Shawano High School in Shawano, Wisconsin is sorry a student observed his First Amendment rights and had his article published in the school newspaper that denounces homosexuals adopting children.

The Shawano High School Hawk Post contained a page with point-counterpoint commentary on gays adopting and parenting children.

Kids will be kids, and in high school that can lead to being reprimanded for being a class clown, passing notes in class or pulling pranks on others.

January 29th is a big day for the Menominee Casino Resort in Keshena and many vendors that will be there.

Two teenagers are busted for counterfeiting, accused of making their own funny money in Shawano County.