Manitowoc News

MANITOWOC - Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen met recently with young leaders from around Wisconsin, including Hannah Demsien of Manitowoc Lutheran High School, who are participating in week three of this year's Senate Scholar Program.

MANITOWOC - A small opossum found its way to the top of the fence around the Herald Times Reporter parking lot at South 10th and Franklin streets Friday morning.

MANITOWOC - U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl's regional representative, Marlene Mielke, will be in the council chambers at Manitowoc City Hall, 900 Quay St., from 11 a.m. to noon March 19 to meet with constituents.

MANITOWOC - Manitowoc School District Superintendent Mark Swanson said Thursday he wanted to "toss out the trial balloon" as he discussed with the School Board's finance and budget committee potential revenue sources and cuts to fill the district's $1.7 million budget hole for 2010-11. By the end of the meeting, Swanson had listed some "broad ...

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker will speak at the 6th Congressional District GOP Caucus at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Holiday Inn, 4601 Calumet Ave.

MANITOWOC - Using a strong full-court press, Manitowoc Lutheran jumped out to a 24-7 first quarter lead en route to a 30-point WIAA Division 4 regional semifinal victory over Sheboygan County Christian, 56-26, at Lutheran High School.

Manitowoc police say a woman whose fingers were bitten off by an Asiatic black bear at Lincoln Park Zoo last week was drunk.

Cathy Buchner, Caroline Geary and Kathy Palmer are the definition of a 'Dream Team' because they do, indeed, make dreams come true.

MANITOWOC - Fundraising efforts are under way to begin building a 2,000-foot boardwalk in the Rahr Memorial School Forest this summer.

Hidden Valley Ski Area, 7711 Hidden Valley Road, will hold a St. Patty's Spring Bash on Saturday.

Residents will get an inside look of inner workings of law enforcement through the Manitowoc Police Department's Citizens Academy which will begin today.

CHILTON - A Chilton man jailed on charges relating to his live-in girlfriend's disappearance and death entered a not guilty plea Monday to a charge of obstructing police.

MILWAUKEE - Three area students have received $1,000 scholarships from the Herb Kohl Education Foundation Scholarship and Fellowship Program.

A Northeastearn Wisconsin fundraising campaign in January and February raised more than $50,000 to support victims in earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

MADISON - Gov. Jim Doyle will make a major harbor assistance announcement for Green Bay and Manitowoc during an event at the Jack Day Environmental Education Center in Green Bay at 11 a.m. today, according to a news release from the governor's office.

A bear bit off a woman's fingers at a zoo after she ignored barriers and warning signs to try to feed the animal, police said.

A bear at Lincoln Park Zoo bit a 47-year-old woman who had gone past the barriers and apparently was trying to feed the bears this morning, according to Capt.

As part of an effort to reduce the number of preventable traffic deaths to 'Zero in Wisconsin,' which is the name of a campaign under way through the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the Manitowoc Police Department will intensify its safety belt enforcement patrols from March 12 to 21, according to a news release from the DOT.

Project Youth, a program of Lutheran Social Services, received the Agency Program of the Year award at United Way Manitowoc County's annual awards dinner Thursday evening at Fox Hills Resort.

Tickets for Saturday's WIAA Div. 1 boys basketball regional final between De Pere and Manitowoc will be on sale at De Pere High School Thursday and Friday.