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The Moraine Park Foundation Board welcomes Holly Luehring, senior director of marketing and communications at Michels Corporation. She will serve three three-year terms.   “I’m excited to have Holly join our exceptional group of Foundation Board members,” Dana Bourland, director of college advancement at Moraine Park, said. “She is a wonderful example of the accomplished alumni who call Moraine Park home. Holly brings a wealth of experience and passion to the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's finance committee has approved a $215,000 deal between the state Justice Department and a factory farm to settle pollution allegations. According to an analysis of the settlement, the agreement will settle allegations that Kinnard Farms improperly spread manure in Kewaunee and Door counties between 2018 and 2022, failed to timely submit an engineering evaluation for a feed storage area and failed to timely submit […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers outrighted infielder Keston Hiura to their Triple-A affiliate in Nashville on Tuesday after he cleared waivers. The move means the 26-year-old Hiura will remain with the Brewers organization after they had designated him for assignment. Hiura had an outstanding rookie season in 2019 but hasn’t been able to recapture that form. He batted .226 with 14 homers and 32 RBIs in 80 games last […]

National Exchange Bank & Trust Chairman of the Board, Peter E. Stone, announces the election of Anthony J. Ahern, president and COO of J.F. Ahern Company, and John Buelow, executive vice president and president for Mercury Marine, part of the Brunswick Corporation, to the Board of Directors.  Ahern joined J.F. Ahern Company in 1993 and held a variety of roles throughout the organization before including estimator, sales and project management, vice […]

PHOENIX (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers signed first baseman Luke Voit and designated Keston Hiura for assignment Monday as part of a flurry of moves they made to prepare for the start of the season.  Voit had arrived in camp on a minor-league deal at the start of spring training but opted out of that contract last week, enabling him to negotiate with other teams. The 2020 MLB home-run leader instead stayed with […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school aren't letting a first-grade class perform a Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because they say the song could be seen as controversial. Students at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha are being told they cannot perform a rendition of “Rainbowland,” and parents in the district say it's because the song encourages LGBTQ acceptance and references rainbows. Superintendent […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has directed that flags to be flown at half-staff in the state Tuesday to honor a Wisconsin soldier who died in World War II and whose remains were recently identified. Evers’ order directs that U.S. flags and Wisconsin state flags be lowered to half-staff from sunrise to sunset Tuesday, the day U.S. Army Private First Class William LaVerne “Sonny” Simon will be buried […]

The Federal Reserve last week extended its year-long fight against high inflation by raising its key interest rate by a quarter-point despite concerns that higher borrowing rates could worsen the turmoil that has gripped the banking system.   Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says he believes it was the right move.  "I think they made a good compromise,"  Schoofs told WFDL news.  "They could have raised rates more, some called for them […]

Bev Kelley-Miller says her daughter Megan would have just turned 30 if she was still alive today.   Megan Kelley was 22 years old when she died from a heroin overdose in Appleton in 2015.   Kelley-Miller says her daughter was the nicest person anyone would want to meet, always willing to help her friends, and always laughing and telling stories.  Kelley-Miller says arresting addicts and putting them in jail is not the answer.  […]