Mason Dorn hit a pair of home runs and had five hits June 7 in Hofa Park’s 7-6 win over Nichols in a matchup of Dairyland League baseball teams.

Hofa Park 7, Nichols 6

Ayden Tomlinson’s RBI single broke a 6-6 tie in the bottom of the eighth inning and helped the Panthers top the Nitros in Hofa Park.

Wausau’s Marcus Yarie won the IMCA modifieds 20-lap feature race at the Shawano Speedway on June 6.

Yarie started fifth and worked his way to the front, finishing in front of Clintonville’s Lucas Lamberies and Shawano’s Andrews Yaeger.

Shawano’s Jason Yaeger started on the pole and finished ninth.

Mike Schmidt of Shawano won the first heat, and Lamberies won the second heat.

Pulaski’s soccer team jumped out to a 2-0 halftime lead and went on win the regional title with a 3-1 win over Ashwaubenon on June 6.

The No.3 seed Red Raiders will travel to take on the No. 2 Cedarburg team June 11.

Keaton Dauk from Pulaski won the Division 1 300-meter hurdles and Oconto Falls’ Brady Bursa captured gold in the Division 2 long jump at the WIAA State Track and Field Championships on June 5-6 at the Veterans Memorial Stadium Complex on the campus of UW-La Crosse.

It marked the 130th year for the boys events and 55th year for the girls.

Dauk won the hurdles in 37.91 seconds. Bursa’s winning jump was 23 feet 2 inches.

Slow-moving motorists and getting cut off by others are two major pet peeves of drivers, but they probably don’t compare to the sight of orange barrels and detour signs.

For anyone driving around Shawano County the past several weeks, it’s enough to make you want to stay home.

Most of the original organizers of the annual Ball of the Badges have formed a new nonprofit organization to keep the local celebration of first responders going strong.

The delivery app company DoorDash reported spending nearly $2 million in the first half of 2025 lobbying the Wisconsin Legislature, according to mandatory filings with the state, to pass a bill that would ban drivers from being classified as employees, thus blocking their ability to receive the corresponding benefits.

An experiment with GovAI will end later this month for Shawano County.

Matt Hietpas, technology services director, said after using the program since January, the county won’t renew its contract for another six months.