Hilbert News

There was plenty of sunshine, just enough heat and an occasional breeze to make the Hilbert Firemen's Parade on Friday a perfect day for the family.

HILBERT - Since it opened five years ago, Main Street Art Works has become a fixture for artists in northeast Wisconsin.

Cory Trepanier hit a two-run home run to lift the Green Bay Storm to a 3-1 victory over the Appleton Legends on Tuesday in a Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League game.

The Green Bay Storm allowed six unanswered runs in the final two innings, losing to the Manitowoc Bandits 8-7 in a Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League game Wednesday.

The 50th-annual Hilbert Fireman's Picnic is 10 a.m. to midnight July 4 at Civic Park, Wisconsin 57, Hilbert.

With the Fourth of July on a Friday this year, there are plenty of opportunities for families to enjoy the holiday and view fireworks displays in area communities.

Jeff Clark, a Kewaunee man who is "49 and still vertical," went out for a 12-mile run on Saturday morning.

BRILLION - Hours before the 9 p.m. start, people were claiming spaces on Main Street, placing lawn chairs and deck chairs along the sidewalk.

Mark Budweiser, 52, Menasha, passed away peacefully at his home on Friday, June 20, 2008.

The end of the trail is in sight for the Friends of the Fox River Trail as the group nears its fundraising goal of $130,000 to pave the walkway's 25 miles.

Darboy Community Park will host more chicken dances this weekend than a summer full of Wisconsin weddings.

Several weeks ago, I read with disbelief that Calumet County would be willing to even think about allowing the hauling of PCBs from the Fox River to the Veolia Landfill.

TOWN OF HOLLAND - Despite the selection of Veolia's Hickory Meadows Landfill, south of Hilbert, to take PCB-contaminated sediments dredged from the lower Fox River, some uncertainties remain.

June - the start of summer job season for teenagers. Come back with me to 1983 while I reminisce about the summer job I had after high-school graduation - the job many of us needed to subsidize our college ...

It's disappointing, but not surprising, that the national credit crisis has stalled some of the riverfront development projects envisioned by developer John Vetter.

The end of the trail is in sight for the Friends of the Fox River Trail as the group nears its fundraising goal of $130,000 to pave the walkway's 25 miles.

The work of Green Bay artist Sally M. Berner is included in a new exhibition, 'Paws & Reflect: Art of Canines,' at Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, 165 N. Park Ave., Neenah.

Summer Shakespeare Theatre, a special summer school course, is being offered for the ninth year as part of the Fox Valley Consortium Summer School Program.

Nearly 3 million cubic yards of PCB-contaminated sediment dredged from the Fox River will be dumped at a landfill in Calumet County beginning next year.

GAS: Gas prices are the most worrisome. Because of the higher costs of transporting anything and everything we eat, wear, read or use in any way in our daily lives, all these prices are going up, too.