The Shawano Community High School girls basketball team couldn’t slow McKenna Larsen and Carly Lemke in a 47-28 loss Friday to Bay Conference foe Oconto Falls in Shawano. “Oconto Falls is a very tough team,” Shawano coach Ryan Koenig said. “I think they’ll be competing at the top of the conference, if not finishing at the top.” Larsen and Lemke each scored 18 points for Oconto Falls (6-0, 3-0 Bay).

Outnumbered and forced into extra playing time all season, Shawano Community High School hockey players know their struggles are helping to keep the program alive. The team, which has just 12 players from Shawano and Bonduel, is in its second year of playing a varsity reserve schedule, after leaving the Fox River Classic Conference in 2012. “A usual hockey team has a minimum of 16. We start out with 12,” coach Tommie CarlinSchauer said.

Shawano Police Department Jan. 9 Police logged 21 incidents, including the following: Assist — Police assisted Shawano County with locating a suspect in a domestic disturbance incident. Harassment — Police investigated a Facebook harassment complaint in the 400 block of East Division Street. Juvenile — Police logged two truancy complaints from Shawano Community Middle School, 1050 S.

A Seymour man was sentenced to prison Thursday for sexual assaults that took place in Shawano and Calumet counties. Norbert DeGroot, 73, was given 15 years in prison and another 10 years extended supervision for repeated sexual assault of a child. DeGroot was sentenced in Calumet County in a case that was consolidated with the Shawano County charges. In handing down his sentence, Calumet County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Froehlich called DeGroot

The Crescent Pitcher Show in downtown Shawano, which closed in December, is scheduled to be sold off at a sheriff’s sale next month, according to court documents. A ruling granting the foreclosure was issued in October.

Lynn Marcks of the nIc Foundation is very grateful for grants from United Way of Shawano County that support the character camps her organization holds each summer. “Without the United Way of Shawano County, we wouldn’t be able to provide the wide spectrum that we do,” Marcks said. The anti-bullying group uses the money to purchase materials for kids from kindergarten through fifth grade at the camp. It’s just one of many organizations helped by

“Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work.” — Vince Lombardi I chose Vince Lombardi’s quote for today’s article because, looking back over 2013, I realize what a team effort it takes for accomplishments to occur in a community. I thought you might enjoy looking back at some of the significant changes that occurred over the year. A major concern of any community is employment.

The year 2014 has arrived and brought with it some of the coldest weather we’ve had in years. I’m glad I’m retired and I don’t have to go off to a job. I can wear my comfy clothes, sip a cappuccino and read the newspaper, or go online and play Scrabble with one of my friends. My husband has caught the fever, and now has four games going at once.

Kris Vomastic has been on the United Way of Shawano County board for three years. She was born in Shawano, graduating from Shawano High School in 1973. She helped operate a dairy farm for 18 years, and for the past 23 years has been employed at Cooperative Resources International in Shawano, where she oversees accounts receivable and the credit and collections area. Vomastic lives by Cloverleaf Lakes and has five children and nine grandchildren.