It’s been nearly two decades since the Shawano County Sheriff’s Department bought a new boat for patrolling county waters, search and rescue efforts, and recovery cases.

That may change soon.

Dana Ritchie, office manager, presented the case for a new boat to the public safety committee May 6. The committee agreed to forward the request to the capital improvement projects committee for consideration.

Sara Rodriguez has been Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor for the last four years, but now she’s hoping to move up.

One person died as the result of a fire that occurred May 6 in the 200 block of East Center Street in Shawano.

Emergency personnel responded shortly before 7 p.m. to reports of a structure fire. Upon arrival, crews observed smoke coming from the home.

Firefighters worked to extinguish the fire and conduct search efforts within the residence. During those efforts, a person was located inside the home.

Ronald Breaker, a pioneering biochemist and longtime leader in the sciences at Yale, has been named the next dean of science in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

Breaker is a 1982 graduate of Tigerton High School.

Breaker will begin a five-year term July 1.

Wisconsin had 4.1 days suitable for fieldwork statewide for the week ending May 3, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Where fields were dry enough, manure spreading, spring tillage and fertilizer applications took place. Planting of soybeans and corn continued, although soil temperatures remain on the cool side.

Efforts to improve Shawano Community High School are going to be kicking into high gear in May, as some of the projects are coming to completion while much of the work will begin in earnest now that winter has ended.