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Betty Schroeder is Black Creek Citizen of the Year

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:58 +0000

By: Keith Skenandore, reporter

The gift that keeps on giving. That’s how one would perhaps describe Betty Schroeder as she keeps giving of her time to help the Village of Black Creek become a better community. For her dedicated volunteer service, Schroeder was named the 2012 Citizen of the Year. Schroeder, 74, will be recognized at the Citizen of the Year banquet which will soon be announced, and also be the parade marshal during the sesquicentennial Family Daze parade on June 2 at 11 [...]

Alexa Pahlow receives ACN & Times-Press Scholarship, seniors receive awards

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:59:25 +0000

Alexa Pahlow

Alexa Pahlow is the recipient of the Advertiser Community News & Times-Press 2012 Scholarship. She was awarded the scholarship at the Shiocton High School Senior Awards Night on Wednesday, May 9 by ACN Publisher Ken Hodgden. Pahlow graduates ranked 12th in her class from Shiocton High School. She plans on attending the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and major in education. “I have chosen this path because of my appreciation for children and their different areas of needs, Pahlow wrote in [...]

SMS students raise funds for cancer, Relay for Life registration set for May 23

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:57:23 +0000

Seymour Middle School raised $250 during its annual Spring Cancer Ribbon Sale. - Submitted photo

In exchange for a $1, all students and staff selected a ribbon of their choice. Donating a ribbon, students had permission to wear a hat for the day. Ribbons were donated by Sarah Schaumberg, Parent Teacher Connection Treasurer, and the STARS (Students Taking Action and Representing Seymour Middle School). The student council members, as well, spent many hours cutting rolls of ribbon to make the [...]

Black Creek holds village-wide rummage sale

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:55:19 +0000

Rummage goers were out in full force during the inaugural city-wide rummage sale in the Village of Black Creek held on Saturday, May 5. Sellers reported good foot traffic despite the weather. Local business reported an uptick in their sales and foot traffic and the brat fry at Sal’s Food set a record for sales at their location. - Submitted photo

Brat fry to benefit Pearl Harbor Honor Flight

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:54:11 +0000

A brat fry to benefit the Pearl Harbor Honor Flight in June will be held at Colwitz’s Convenience Store in Shiocton from 7 a.m.-6 p.m. on Saturday, May 26. Volunteers from the Hortonville-Dale Food Pantry, members from Catholic Financial Life chapters 188, 197 and 299, along with veterans from Shiocton, Black Creek and Seymour will be serving up food all day long. World War II veterans will receive one free sandwich and all other veterans will receive $1 off each sandwich. The honor [...]

Countdown to the Sesquicentennial

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:53:24 +0000

The Village of Black Creek will be celebrating its 150th birthday at the Family Daze Celebration June 2nd. Organizations throughout the village are working together to make this a spectacular celebration of Black Creek. Evening entertainment will be provided by the Black Creek Business Association in conjunction with the Black Creek Fire and Rescue. The Black Creek Business Association is sponsoring the band Diamonds and Steel. The band will be kicking off their performance at 7:00pm. Also look for the Black Creek [...]

Bay Conference Track Meet and week’s results

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:08:17 +0000

Sandy Cohen leaped 44-03.75 in the triple jump to place second at the 32nd Annual Seymour Invitational. - Photo by Rick Cohler

Bay Conference meet The Seymour Thunder boys placed second and the girls third in the Bay Conference Track Meet in Shawano on Saturday, May 12. Boys: 1) West De Pere 162; 2) Seymour 143 3); Luxemburg-Casco 107; 4) Oconto Falls 80; 5) Marinette 66; 6) Shawano Community 52; 7) Hortonville 39; New London 34; 9) Denmark [...]

Thunder soccer loses first conference game, is 2-1 at GB East tournament

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:06:33 +0000

Thunder defender Kelsey Kominowski, #3, above, goes in for the steal but trips a New London player awarding the Bulldogs a penalty kick during Bay action at Seymour on Tuesday, May 8. New London scored on the kick and took an early 1-0 lead. - photo by Keith Skenandore

The Seymour Thunder girls soccer team was 2-1 at the Green Bay East Invitational meet on Saturday, May 12. Seymour beat Green Bay Southwest 2-0 and Grafton 1-0 before losing to [...]

Soccer injuries hard on the head and team

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:04:57 +0000

By Keith Skendore, reporter

Two significant injuries have struck the Lady Thunder soccer team Coach Todd Messner has confirmed that middle players Mariah Metoxen and Brianna Messner both have suffered concussions during last weekend’s New Berlin West tournament. In game one, Metoxen kicked a ball that ricochet off a New Berlin West player that was close to her, and struck her in the face, causing the injury. During the championship game Messner went to head a ball and collided heads with an Ashland player [...]

Thunder drops double header to L-C, beats Shawano and Hortonville

seymour — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:03:55 +0000

Third baseman Keenan Moehring fields a ball to throw out a runner at first against Shawano on Monday, May 7. - Photo by Keith Skenandore

The Seymour Thunder dropped both games of a double header 6-5 and 5-3 with Luxemburg-Casco on Saturday, May 12. Earlier in the week:

Seymour 8 Shawano 4 Seymour scored runs in their first four inning in route to a 8-4 home win over Shawano on Monday, May 7. The Thunder (7-4, 10-4) scored first off a bloop single by [...]