The Shawano Leader

02/20/2025

The temperature outside was 10 degrees, and inside the Shawano Recreation Center pool, it was 86. Members of the Shawano County Dive Team were training inside Feb. 12, but they’re no strangers to working in either extreme.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/dive-team-trains-call-they-hope-never-have-answer

02/20/2025

New police chief officially takes oath
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/musolff-sworn-police-chief

02/20/2025

Love can appear in the most unlikely of places, but social media sensation Ed the Diver never expected that a waterlogged Barbie doll he pulled from the murky depths of the Shawano Dam would lead him to a real mermaid that captured his heart.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/love-low-places

02/18/2025

It is with both joy and sadness that the family of Gordon Richard Zachow announces his passing from this brief and transitory life and his reunion with friends and family in a world of eternal life.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/gordon-r-zachow

02/18/2025

RIP Donna Wetzel
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/donna-m-wetzel

02/18/2025

Rose Marie V. Childs, 96, passed away at Country View Care Center on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/rose-marie-v-childs

02/18/2025

Donald “Don” Leroy McGowan, 90, of Kimberly, passed away Feb. 13, 2025.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/donald-%E2%80%9Cdon%E2%80%9D-leroy-mcgowan

02/17/2025

From Shawano to Eland and from Bonduel to Tigerton, 18 boys and girls across Shawano County are waiting for a friend, a mentor — a Big Brother or Big Sister.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/big-brothers-big-sisters-teams-nfl

02/13/2025

Dahlias come in various colors, shapes and sizes, making them easy to include in any garden, container or bouquet. Grow them in their own dedicated space, mix them with other flowers or plant a few at the end of the vegetable garden.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/dahlia-combinations-gardens-and-bouquets

02/13/2025

On a recent snowy Monday morning, 13 volunteers for the Wee Care Food Backpack Program made their way to the basement of Zion Lutheran Church in Shawano to pack bags with donated food items for school children in need, just as they do every other Monday.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/food-backpack-program-sees-growing-need

02/13/2025

Jeremiah Moses Jr. offers Shawano Community High School students the opportunity he wished he’d been given. The first-generation descendant of the Menominee Nation graduated from SCHS in 2020 without having the chance to study his people’s language. This academic year, he is ensuring current high schools will be able to do so.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/moses-helps-students-take-language-back

02/12/2025

County, state ma*****na possession laws clarified
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/two-strikes-and-you%E2%80%99re-felon-%E2%80%94-maybe

02/12/2025

Shawano County officials to hold informational meeting on proposed wheel tax.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/county-host-informational-meeting-about-wheel-tax

02/12/2025

Another student assault claim made
https://newmedia-wi.com/content/another-student-assault-claim-made

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02/12/2025

Petition to alter school district boundary denied
https://newmedia-wi.com/content/petition-alter-school-district-boundary-denied

02/11/2025

Shawano Community High School band returns to the top of the Purdue Jazz Festival.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/schs-jazz-band-wins-purdue-festival

02/10/2025

Sheriff says not to expect ICE roundups in Shawano County.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/sheriff-don%E2%80%99t-expect-ice-roundups-shawano-county

02/10/2025

Pedro Noriega-Avila will spend the next 49 years in prison for the sexual assault of his stepdaughter over a decade ago.
https://www.newmedia-wi.com/content/noriega-avila-gets-49-years-child-sex-crimes