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Over 50 years on from Title IX, coach that helped bring women’s sports to Antigo High School reflects
ANTIGO — When Sandy Waltzer began coaching softball and basketball at Antigo High School in 1976, results from her teams’ games appeared on the newspaper’s obituary page. This lack of recognition for women’s sports wasn’t uncommon at the time: Title IX, the landmark legislation that prohibited sex-based discrimination in education programs, had only been enacted four years earlier in 1972. Soon though, the team was in the newspaper’s regular sports...
Antigo student to take part in regional cooking competition
ANTIGO — One Antigo High School student will compete in a regional culinary arts competition this Friday, March 15. Junior Kaitlyn Schreoder, a stalwart in the AHS Family Consumer Science program, will travel to Waukesha County Technical College for the cooking event, part of the 51st annual SkillsUSA Wisconsin State Leadership and Skills Conference. SkillsUSA, a national workforce development organization, will hold competitions in a number of practical, mostly STEM-related...
Antigo High chili competition rages in Family Consumer Science wing
ANTIGO — Nearly everyone in Antigo knows of the city’s Christmastime chili cookoff on 5th Ave., but for the past several years, a chili competition has been a staple at another place in the city. Antigo High School. Throughout the day Thursday, teams of students enrolled in the International Foods elective served around 170 students and faculty who stopped by their classroom specially to taste-test — and then judge by...
Red Robin Chronicles: March school district update
Did you know that the Antigo School district performance is partially measured by our Junior level students’ ACT scores? Our 11th grade students work hard to prepare for the ACT by practicing covered content in core classes leading up to the test date, firming up their writing skills and by building their testing endurance and stamina. A practice test is administered prior to the test date in a small setting with an assigned proctor. ...
Antigo School Board begins assessment of district buildings
ANTIGO — The Buildings and Grounds Committee of the Antigo School Board Monday night stressed the importance of fact-finding and transparency during the early stages of assessing the condition of at least six buildings in the school district. The committee continued its discussion about the role of the Blue Design Group, a Hortonville architecture firm that was recently hired to assess the condition of Antigo’s three public elementary schools, the middle school, the high school, and the separate school district office building. ...
Newman Catholic boys basketball snags road win over White Lake in WIAA Division 5 regional quarterfinal
WHITE LAKE – The No. 11 seed Newman Catholic boys basketball team went on the road and picked up a playoff win on Tuesday night, downing No. 6 seed White Lake 44-29 in a WIAA Division 5 regional quarterfinal at White Lake High School. Quincy Pfender scored 19 points...
Seniors serving seniors: High school students help fill luncheon volunteer gap
ANTIGO — Two weeks ago, Tracy Bussey came up with a simple, but big plan: she would cater a free lunch at the Langlade County Senior Center. The day before the event, however, Bussey, the manager of Farmer’s Home restaurant, realized the number of seniors who had signed up for the meal at the rapidly-expanding Senior Center had grown too large for she and her staff to serve without reinforcements. ...
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