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Lakeland University, CESA 7 partner to address special education teacher shortage
LAKELAND UNIVERSITY
Schools across Wisconsin and nationally are facing a shortage of special education teachers. Lakeland University and the regional Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA 7) in Green Bay are partnering to address the shortage by creating a new pathway for Lakeland education majors to earn a special education teaching license. The partnership with CESA 7 will allow Lakeland students pursuing a K-9 teaching license to add a K-12 Cross-Categorical Special Education license by completing four special education elective courses through CESA 7 and a student teaching experience through Lakeland ...Read More 1>
Promoting the Regional Brand
More exhibits coming to the Door County Maritime Museum
WLUK STURGEON BAY -- New exhibits are coming soon to The Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower at the Door County Maritime Museum in Sturgeon Bay.
Inside a cramped ceiling space on the seventh floor, workers from Southern Custom Exhibits needed drill power Thursday morning to help get the job done.
"We're here, right now, putting in floors two and seven. We've got a few more floors in design phase right now that should follow right behind and just taking it step-by-step," said Derrick Palmer, Southern Custom Exhibits.
The exhibit dedicated to navigation is the newest addition to the 10-story tower.
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Packers stock sale raises $63.5M from all 50 states, Canada and U.S. territories; sale ends Feb. 25
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Packers raised more than $63 million since mid-November in the team's sixth stock sale, which ends Feb. 25.
The team said that as of last week it sold 191,881 shares in 173,622 transactions totaling $63,641,070. Shares sell for $300 each plus a $35 handling fee.
The most shares were sold in Wisconsin, as would be expected, at 32,000, followed by California at 16,000, Texas at 9,800, Illinois at 9,600 and Florida at 7,300. Canadians bought 3,317 shares...
Read More 3> Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Bay Bank making impact in Menominee County
WIS BUSINESS Bay Bank’s branch in Keshena is celebrating its first anniversary of making its presence felt in the community and local economy.
Since opening a year ago in Keshena, Bay Bank contributed to Menominee County’s economy by helping hundreds of area residents open new accounts and providing them with personal and business loans. Owned by the Oneida Nation, Bay Bank is the only bank on the Menominee Reservation and in Menominee County.....Special Event
Appleton Downtown Inc. gets ready for Death by Chocolate
WFRV APPLETON – Appleton Downtown Inc. is hosting the 19th Annual Death by Chocolate event. The event happens every year around Valentine’s Day weekend and gives people a chance to taste multiple desserts. Death by Chocolate features 22 local business. There is an East and West route; each route has 11 businesses. Last year, the event was featured to go boxes to ensure everyone was safe. This year, people will be able to go inside the local businesses and enjoy the sweet treats.. ..Read More 5> Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Lunar New Year begins today
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When is Chinese or Lunar New Year? Also called Spring Festival, it begins on February 1, 2022 and ends on January 21, 2023. What Chinese New Year animal is it? It’s the Year of the Tiger. but more specifically. it’s a Year of the Water Tiger. Celebrated by almost two billion people across the world though mainly in Asia, Lunar New Year has—as might be obvious—a longstanding connection to the phases of our Moon. Here’s everything you need to know about the “Year of the Water Tiger,” which Chinese animal you are, and how our natural satellite in space dictates one of humanity’s biggest celebrations... Read More 6> Fostering Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging
Anti-racism workshops and soul food: Your guide to Black History Month 2022 in the greater Green Bay area
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
GREEN BAY – Did you know that Black History Month, despite first being conceived in 1915 — half a century after the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery — wasn't a national holiday until former President Gerald Ford officially recognized it in 1976?
That and a series of other nuggets, such as that the holiday falls in February because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln have February birthdays, can all be brought to Black History Trivia at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay this month... Read More 7>
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