19 March 2015

Thrivent receives award for ethics

Thrivent Financial has been selected as a 2015 World’s Most Ethical Company award recipient by the Ethisphere Institute, a global leader in defining and advancing the standards of ethical business practices. The designation recognizes organizations that have had a material impact on the way business is conducted by fostering a culture of ethics and transparency at every level of the company. It is the fourth consecutive year that Thrivent has rec
19 March 2015
Clintonville council unaware of growing pension liability
Clintonville officials were surprised to learn the city owes the state more than $1.1 million in an unfunded pension liability and want to know why their auditing firm didn’t tell them. “This is serious,” interim City Administrator Chuck Kell said. “This is a large number that costs money every year.
19 March 2015
Public Record
Shawano Police Department March 18 Police logged 22 incidents, including the following: Juvenile — Police responded to a juvenile problem at Olga Brener Intermediate School, 1300 S. Union St. Fraud — Police investigated a fraud complaint at CoVantage Credit Union, 911 E.
19 March 2015
Kenneth J. Behnke
Kenneth “Ken” J. Behnke, 81, of the Township of Union, Waupaca County, passed away peacefully Thursday morning, March 19, 2015, at Theda Clark Medical Center from complications following a recent stroke. The Eberhardt-Stevenson Funeral Home & Crematory of Clintonville is assisting his family.
19 March 2015
3 Bonduel boys earn all-conference honors
Bonduel High School junior center Peyton Czarapata was a first-team selection to the All-Central Wisconsin Conference-8 boys basketball team announced this week. Czarapata averaged 14.6 points and 8.8 rebounds a game for the third-place Bears. “Peyton played mostly junior varsity last year, so most of the teams didn’t know much about him this season,” Bonduel coach Duke Copp said.
19 March 2015
Haffner named CWC-10 Player of the Year
Gresham Community High School senior Christian Haffner has been named the boys basketball Player of the Year and first-team All-Central Wisconsin Conference-10. Haffner led the Wildcats to a 15-3 mark and second place in the CWC-10. “Christian probably had a good enough year to win it last year, too, but he’s been a big reason we’ve had the kinds of seasons we’ve had since he’s been here,” Gresham coach Jeff Zobeck said.
19 March 2015
Menominee Indian’s Smith named CWC-10 Player of the Year
Menominee Indian High School junior Ania Smith, who led the Eagles to a 16-2 mark and first place in the Central Wisconsin Conference-10, has been selected the conference’s Player of the Year in girls basketball. The Menominee Indian girls team won its first 18 games of the season behind Smith, who averaged 16.8 points a game in conference play. “We absolutely put the team on her back at crunch time,” coach Chris Rice said.
19 March 2015
Bonduel’s Dowden CWC-8 Player of the Year
Bonduel High School senior center Jen Dowden, who led the Bears to the Central Wisconsin Conference-8 championship and one of the best girls basketball seasons in school history, this week was named the conference’s Player of the Year. Dowden averaged 13.6 points, 7.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists in conference, where Bonduel finished the season 13-1.
19 March 2015
Northern Wisconsin serves as lab, classroom for UW scientist
For the past decade, Ankur Desai has been working with collaborators from across the country to study the uptake and emission of carbon in northern Wisconsin’s forests, wetlands and lakes. When Desai measures greenhouse gases, he’s not just helping to illuminate how ecosystems modify climate.
19 March 2015
Malliet in pursuit of spelling repeat
Karelyn Malliet is preparing to defend her 2014 Badger State Spelling Bee title next week, and her chances of advancing to the Scripps National Spelling Bee have improved, courtesy of a new wrinkle. Rather than only first-place winners, the top three spellers in Wisconsin will advance to the national bee this year. Malliet, an eighth-grade student at Shawano Community Middle School, is taking nothing for granted as she prepares for the state bee
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