As the 2014 racing season reaches its final third of the schedule, it is a great time to take a look at some of the intriguing story lines right. One of the top point battles is in the IMCA Sport Mod class. Second-year racers Lucas Lamberies and Jordan Bartz have both continued to grow as racers following stellar rookie seasons. Each driver has scored two feature wins in track- point racing action. Lamberies holds a seven-point edge over Bartz.

Shawano sluggers Chase Henning and Alex Frechette will be heading to Fox Cities Stadium on Aug. 9 for the Fox River Valley American Legion All-Star game. The Fox River Valley stars are scheduled to play at noon.

The only clue that Isaiah Lanphear was in a major accident two months earlier was the cast where his hand should have been. Lanphear, a 5-year-old from Cecil who lost his hand in an accident last summer, was back to happily being a kid and playing football and other sports just two months after the incident thanks to a summer camp his grandparents, Joe and Lisa Lanphear, found. Isaiah was back at the NubAbility Athletics Foundation All-Sport Summ

To the editor: In a recent Shawano Leader article about the sheriff candidates, it was suggested the Shawano Medical Center might be a possible site for a justice center. Even before any research on costs, it looked to be a possibility. SMC has the space and, with all the years of updates and remodeling, it has been kept up to code while being used as a hospital.

To the editor: It is sad to see what has happened to the Republican Party in this country. Influenced by tea party extremists, the Republican Party is now little more than the Party of No. Led by their visceral hatred of President Barack Obama, they no longer are interested in the national or state economy, much less the poor and minorities. Their leader in the U.S. Senate, Sen.

To the editor: Just today, a retiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent leaked to Fox and other news agencies that all the “new” ICE and Border Patrol agents we are supposed to have enforcing immigration laws have been reassigned away from the border by the administration flunkies at Homeland Security! These agents in many cases work only four hours a day with zero border enforcement duties.

To the editor: Sheriff Randy Wright’s comments in the July 31 Leader article contain incorrect statements about the evidence storage building. Let’s look at facts. The Shawano County Board approved a secured evidence storage building in the Capital Improvement Plan, a 50- by 100-foot building, for a cost of $306,545, to be constructed in 2009. The board funded the project on Jan. 29, 2009.

The Clintonville American Legion baseball team had the tying run on third base in the seventh inning but couldn’t get him home and lost 5-4 to Wisconsin Dells at the American Legion Class A tournament Friday in Nekoosa. Trailing 5-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh, the Diamond Cats (19-6) loaded the bases on Vinny Doberstein’s single, a base on balls by Zac Riemer and a single by Jake VanAllen.

The fight over Wisconsin Gov.