To the editor: It must have come as a surprise to Shawano area residents that the Shawano School Board is no longer allowing the community to use the same swimming pool paid for and maintained by taxpayers.

Life in America was very different in 1914. Not only was there no TV, cell phones and the like, there also were none of the other things that we have come to think of as common and ordinary. In those days most roads were dirt. While there were cars, not everyone could afford one. A trip to Europe required passage aboard a cruise liner. Sports seems to have been an important pastime during those days. The first U.S.

This is the second year that Brenda Bartz will host the Koi Experience at her home in Shawano.

Kathy Brown is president of the Shawano Area Quilters. She was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, graduating from Vermillion High School. She attended the University of South Dakota, but then met her husband of 50 years, Bert, and worked as a secretary in a bank to put him through school. They moved to Madison, South Dakota, where Brown had her own radio show while her husband taught school.

On a farm, there’s planting season, harvest season and fly season. Planting and harvesting are very productive and satisfying. Fly season is just plain annoying. Those pesky flies, and on some farms, a multitude of mosquitoes, have begun showing up in earnest.

The Shawano Community High School cross-country course is 3.1 miles. For about a dozen runners in the Shawano Run Club, the goal is to run the course more than 64 times this summer, getting into the elite 200-mile club. “It’s about getting miles underneath them so, when the (high school) season starts, they are in shape,” said Robert Buss, Shawano Run Club president. The group was organized by Buss and a few parents of cross-country runners to he

Shawano Police Department July 16 Police logged 20 incidents, including the following: Accident — Police responded to a property damage accident at Green Bay Street and Airport Drive. Disorderly — Police responded to a disorderly conduct complaint at People’s Express South, 716 S. Main St. Warrant — A 22-year-old man was taken into custody on a warrant after a traffic stop at Cleveland and Maurer streets. Shoplifting — Walmart, 1244 E.

Most areas of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Shawano are unrecognizable as it undergoes an extensive renovation. Work started on May 13 and is expected to be completed by Oct. 1. The renovation is being financed by $432,000 that was raised 10 years ago for the second phase of a reconfiguration of the church. “It was repurposed toward this simplified renovation,” said the Rev.

Nearly 60 seniors at Thursday’s eighth annual Senior Information Day were encouraged to combine social engagement and physical activity to promote better health. The event, held at the Shawano Civic Center, was a combined effort of the Aging Unit of the Shawano County Department of Social Services and Shawano Community Education. “We had a great turnout today,” said Holly Konitzer, social worker with the Aging Unit of Shawano County.