PBS Wisconsin has announced the launch of “Why Race Matters,” a nine-part digital series focused on important issues affecting Wisconsin’s Black communities. In the new series, host Angela Fitzgerald interviews Black Wisconsinites about race, identity and achieving racial equity in the state.

As a continuation of its efforts to increase civic education and engagement, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation has launched the Wisconsin Civics Games Editorial Writing and Cartoon Contest. The contest will celebrate the rights established by the First Amendment.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, patients should also remember the importance of vaccinating for whooping cough – most importantly, the youngest patients of all. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious, person-to-person bacterial respiratory disease. Its name comes from the gasping sound that adults and children make as they breathe deeply in between coughing fits.

For the past three decades, the PBS Wisconsin Garden and Landscape Expo has brought a touch of spring-like warmth and lots of gardening and landscaping inspiration to the middle of the cold Wisconsin winter. In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 28th annual Garden and Landscape Expo will offer that same inspiration — and warmth of spring — in an online-exclusive, virtual experience Feb. 20-21.

Recent federal legislation and an order from the director of the Centers for Disease Control extends a September 2020 order that protects tenants from eviction based on nonpayment of rent, will now run through March 31. “Wisconsin renters should know that they are not automatically entitled to protections under the CDC order,” said Lara Sutherlin, administrator of DATCP’s Division of Trade and Consumer Protection.

SHAWANO COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL First semester HIGHEST HONOR ROLL Eighth grade: Olivia A. Anderson, Makenna R. Bubolz, Bailey L. DeFere, Vivian Duong, Ginger C. Eggert, Lily G. Glysch, Kennedi M. Meyers, Trinity M. Popelka, Laci L. Sperberg, Rosella J. Wegner, Madisyn A. Weinig Seventh grade: Evan D. Anderson, Lily A. Bubolz, Olivia Dobratz, Anna L. Dreier, Bailey E. Hendricks, Grant N. Keszo, Teagan M. Powers, Laney M. Rich, Anderson J.