In a game dominated by defense, the Bonduel High School girls basketball team beat Wittenberg-Birnamwood 31-29 Tuesday to create a logjam atop the Central Wisconsin Conference-8 standings. “We knew it was going to be close; we knew it was going to be intense,” Bonduel coach Missy Dowden said. “We started out so nervous, and then we chipped away at them, one point at a time.

It has been 11 years since First Presbyterian Church in Shawano started what is now an annual tradition of commemorating Martin Luther King Day with a community gathering and celebration of King’s ideals of peace and understanding. “Every year, we have new faces,” said the Rev.

While a school shooting has not happened in Shawano, local officials don’t plan to wait for one to happen to take action. Shawano schools, both public and private, plan to implement a new method of dealing with a shooter, one that involves taking action instead of hiding and locking doors. Scott Zwirschitz, Shawano Community High School principal, informed the School Board on Monday that steps are being taken to train students and staff in the pr

A Shawano man, maintaining his innocence, was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum penalty allowable for the double murder of a brother and sister in 2009. Daniel Schmidt, 30, was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life in prison, without chance of parole, for the intentional homicides of his ex-mistress, Kimberly Rose, 32, and her brother, Leonard Marsh, 22, on May 19, 2009. Schmidt was arrested in September 2012 and found guilty by an Oconto

Jeannette M. Ashley, 85, of Shawano, passed away peacefully early Monday morning, Jan. 20, 2014, at Theda Clark Regional Medical Center in Neenah, where she had been a patient for the past week. Funeral service arrangements are pending and will be announced on Thursday. Schroeder-Mickelson Funeral Service of Shawano is assisting the Ashley family with the service arrangements. www.schroedermickelsonfuneralservice.com

Harvey C. Bartz, 84, of Shawano, passed away Tuesday morning, Jan. 21, 2014, at the Shawano Medical Center. Funeral service arrangements are pending and will be announced later. Schroeder-Mickelson Funeral Service of Shawano is assisting the Bartz family with the service arrangements. www.schroedemickelsonfuneralservice.com

Christopher Maynard Koehler, 44, of Shawano, passed away Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Born on Oct. 21, 1969, in Shawano, he was the son of Maynard Koehler and Marcia (Michael) Reinicke. Chris lived most of his life in the Shawano area. For the past five years, he worked at Nueske Meats in Wittenberg.

Pauline June Beyer, 79, of the town of Wescott, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014, in Shawano. Born on Jan. 13, 1935, in Fairchild, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Angeline (Schliter) Peterson. After graduating high school, Pauline furthered her education with a degree in nursing from the Western Wisconsin Technical College in La Crosse.

Cynthia G. Lasch, 67, of the town of Belle Plaine, Shawano, passed away on Jan. 16, 2014, from injuries received in a vehicle accident in Salt Lake City, Utah, and joined her Heavenly Father in the Celestial Kingdom. Cynthia was born in Lewiston, Idaho, on June 16, 1946, to Eris and Stanley Elam. She was married to Gene C. Lasch in Grangeville, Idaho, on June 12, 1965.