DENMARK – For Denmark High School volleyball this fall, the good news is also the bad news. 

The Vikings took the leap last year from middle-of-the-pack conference-dwellers over a three-year span to second in 2019 and lost just two seniors off a 26-11 team that reached the second round of the playoffs.

DENMARK – While any coach relishes the luxury of a heady three-year starting quarterback, he eventually must start planning for the future. And that future inevitably means going from the comfort of a steady leader to the unknowns of a neophyte.

SHIRLEY—Harvest time has moved into full swing, well ahead of last year’s slog of a season and beating most precedents to set up what may be a record year in many respects. 

DENMARK – Despite the loss of three All-Conference First Teamers on offense and two First Teamers on defense, Denmark seemed primed to take another step up the ladder of success Tom Neuman put in place two seasons ago.

Neuman took a struggling program to the first round of the 2018 playoffs, then to the second round last season. Level 3 would certainly have been the logical – if lofty – ambition for 2020.

DENMARK – Last season, such a loss would have had coaches, players and fans pulling their hair and gnashing their teeth. 

Last season, a 40-14 loss to Fox Valley Lutheran would not have set well with anyone in the Denmark community.

tudents and staff returned to in-person school instruction on Monday after three weeks of doing business and study remotely as a result of the area’s boom in positive coronavirus tests following the Sept. 1 start of classes. 

Transmission of the virus within the Denmark School District appears to have stalled in the interim, according to census tract-level data from the state Dept. of Health Services (DHS). 

In Appleton, 89 workers employed at AstenJohnson, makers of specialty fabrics for the paper industry, went on strike over the company’s proposal to increase out-of-pocket health care costs for its workers. The workers are the Local 1855 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM). The strike began on Oct. 16 and has yet to be resolved.

 Manitowoc County and the Wisconsin National Guard will be hosting a recurring COVID-19 community testing site at the Manitowoc County Expo Center, 4921 Expo Dr., Manitowoc. 

The agencies undertook the first of four testing days on Tuesday. The next three will run at the site from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each of the following days:

• October 20