Thanks to the Bonduel boys basketball team, two No. 1 seeds for this season’s WIAA state tournament aren’t in the mix for a state title.

The Bears, however, are heading back to the Kohl Center in Madison for the second time in a row and second time in program history after a 78-68 win over Marathon March 14 in a Division 4 sectional final at D.C. Everest High School in Weston.

Plans for the Tigerton boys basketball team’s first trip to state in program history have been put on hold.

The Tigers headed into their WIAA Division 5 sectional final with Reedsville on March 14 with a 28-0 record, but the Panthers ended Tigerton’s season with a 56-45 loss at Oconto Falls High School.

Cleanup from the 2 feet of snow dropped by Blizzard Elsa is underway. Many businesses and school districts closed March 16-17, but some reopened their doors on St. Patrick's Day. City and county government offices, and the U.S. Post Office, opened March 17 after the storm closed down much of the area the day before.

Tim Lohmiller, of Shawano, was in full St. Patrick’s garb at the St. Patrick’s Day parade March 14. Hundreds of people lined Lake Drive for the annual event.

The first wave of S.C. Swiderski’s Wittenberg apartments are nearing completion, and the housing company opened up some of them for the public to check out March 12.

It didn’t take long for the open apartments to fill up with interested people, and applications are already coming in, according to managers on the site. The first eight units, all single-level apartments, are expected to open in May.

The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has released the draft environmental assessment for the proposed Hard Rock Casino in Kenosha.

The EA analyzes the potential effects of acquiring land in Kenosha for the Menominee Indian Tribe and its proposed development of the property as a casino-hotel, offering class III gaming pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, consistent with other tribal casinos in the state.