During the preseason, when the hype was at its highest, this might have been how fans envisioned their Green Bay Packers playing this season. The Packers demolished the visiting Carolina Panthers 38-17 Sunday, winning in every phase from the first series to the fourth quarter, when both teams signaled the outcome was decided and the backup quarterbacks were sent in. On the Packers’ first possession, quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who was nearly flawl

FOOTBALL Crandon 60 Menominee Indian 6 Alphonso Smith rushed for 83 yards on 17 carries and had the Eagles’ lone score, but it wasn’t enough for Menominee Indian to overcome Crandon in a Northern Lakes game Friday in Keshena. Smith, a senior who rushed for a school record 1,064 yards this season, scored on a 6-yard dive in the fourth quarter to break the Crandon shutout. Michael Pecore had 40 yards rushing and caught a 43-yard pass from Avery Cor

At 6 feet 7 and 287 pounds, Julius Peppers is an imposing figure. But even the veteran pass rusher realizes just how tough it can be to tackle Carolina quarterback Cam Newton. Now imagine the 6-foot-5 Newton carrying the ball with a running head start coming around the edge.

The Shawano Community High School football team reached for every trick in the playbook to try to spoil Bay Conference foe Denmark’s playoff bid. Despite some highlight plays, Shawano lost 48-21, wrapping up conference play 2-6, 3-6 overall. “The kids played hard,” Shawano coach Al Tomow said. “The effort is never questioned. It’s just the same things that hurt us all year: a missed assignment here, being out of position on another play.

Hunter Berry scored four times, and the Bonduel High School football team knocked Central Wisconsin Conference-8 foe Manawa from the playoffs in a 49-13 win Friday in Bonduel. “We were a little nervous,” Bonduel offensive coordinator Dave LaBerge said.

Charles Kell, of Little Chute, has been hired as interim city administrator in Clintonville. The Clintonville Common Council met in closed session Tuesday night and then voted 8-1 to hire Kell at $75 per hour as needed. He will not receive benefits. Kell had served as the village administrator in Little Chute but retired about a year and a half ago.

Thrivent Financial Wolf River Associates has received a Shawano Country Vision 2017 facade improvement grant totaling $2,500. The grant was awarded to help cover costs to purchase and install signage at the Thrivent office at 310 E. Green Bay St.

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Phyllis Ashenbrenner, 99, of Gresham, passed away on Oct. 16, 2014, in Shawano. Born on Nov. 8, 1914, in Leopolis, she was the daughter of the late John and Minnie (Aschenbrenner) Cerveny. On Feb. 4, 1931, she was united in marriage to Louis F. Ashenbrenner in Leopolis. Phyllis worked side by side with Louis on their farm in the Lyndhurst area until retirement in 1949, when they moved to Gresham. She then worked at the St.