The girls basketball teams from Bonduel and Menominee Indian high schools will enjoy a day off on the first day of the WIAA playoffs. Bonduel (20-1) is the top seed in its sectional bracket of Division 4 play, which begins Tuesday. The Bears will open the postseason at home Feb. 27 against the winner of Tuesday’s Rosholt (11-9) vs. Amherst (9-12) game. In another Division 4 encounter, Menominee Indian (19-1), the No.

It didn’t take long for the Bonduel High School girls basketball team to find out how it would react to adversity. Days removed from a gutting one-point loss at Wittenberg-Birnamwood that snapped their 19-game winning streak, the Bears found themselves tangled in another clash with a quality opponent Monday night, this time a non-league showdown with Marinette & Oconto Conference power Peshtigo. Bonduel was aware that the visiting Bulldogs di

In what could be termed a qualified success, six competitors from the talent-heavy Bonduel High School wrestling team advanced Saturday from the Coleman Regional into the WIAA sectional tournament that the Bears will host Saturday at Shawano Community High School. Pushing through to wrestle another day for Bonduel were freshman Jordan Boldt, juniors Garrett Siolka and Bennett Gunderson, and seniors Travis Wollenberg, Dan Tauchen and Mitch Sokolsk

Incumbent Melvin Wendland is out of the race for Bonduel village president as a result of Tuesday’s primary. Voters in Bonduel chose Wendland’s two challengers to move forward to the general election on April 7. Sharon Wussow, a trustee on the Village Board, and former Village President Grant Staszak, finished in a virtual tie at the top, with Wendland finishing third. The unofficial results, which still need to be certified, were: Wussow 58 Stas

The Shawano School District will continue to receive its food service through Taher Inc. after the School Board approved the annual contract Monday by a 7-1 vote. The district put out a request for proposals, and Minnesota-based Taher was the only company to submit a bid.

More than $10,000 in cash prizes will be awarded Feb. 28 at the 53rd annual Marion Lions Fish Derby at Lions Point. First prize will be $5,000 in cash and second prize will be $1,000. More than 200 merchandise prizes also will be given away. You do not need to be present to win. The grand prize drawing will take place at 5 p.m. Tickets are $2 each or three for $5. The fishing contest will include prizes for the largest fish in each species.

Five wrestlers from Shawano Community High School ran the gauntlet Saturday at the Green Bay/Preble WIAA Regional and survived to compete another day. Wyatt Welch (106 pounds), Danny Darling (113), Austin Oreskovic (126), Jarrett Laasch (145) and Damon Braatz (285) all finished in the top four to advance to the Green Bay West/Southwest Sectional, which begins at 10:30 a.m.

Zach Soper set the bar so high at last year’s WIAA Division 2 swimming finals that it was hard to imagine what he could possibly do for an encore. Yet, here he is, preparing for the final meet of an illustrious career at Shawano Community High School, in position to write his name in the record books again. Soper, the defending state champion in the 100-yard butterfly and the 100-yard backstroke, advanced to Friday night’s state finals by posting

Playoff hoops aren’t set to get under way for another week, but the intensity was already ramped up full burn in Tuesday night’s Central Wisconsin Conference-10 showdown between two of the area’s hottest teams. Bowler played a game that its coach characterized as an all-timer, and Menominee Indian got off the deck repeatedly to keep it interesting, and in the end the host Panthers had ended Menominee Indian’s perfect run in the Central Wisconsin