Sports
Pirates cut the ribbon on their new synthetic turf field on city-owned land next to Thomas Jefferson Middle School. The team broke in its new field with an 8-7 walk-off victory over Homestead. (Lower) PORT WASHINGTON MAYOR Ted Neitzke (left) threw out the first pitch as softball pitcher Sierra Miller and Port High Athletic Director John Bunyan watched on April 16. Photos by Sam Arendt
Confetti and streamers might be the only things missing from the Port Washington High School softball team’s openers this season.
Eight days after Sierra Miller threw a no-hitter in the first game of the year at Whitefish Bay, Paige Scheunemann came...
Op-Ed
This is an editorial and an apology. The apology should come from the United States Postal Service, but they don’t do apologies. So we are apologizing on behalf of the USPS for shoddy mail service that can result in this newspaper being delivered to its subscribers late or not at all.
How shoddy can that service be? Here’s one...
Good Living
PATRIOT WAS THE home of Gert and Christine Grohmann for nearly an entire year during the Great Loop. (Lower) Gert and Christine Grohmann have a gold flag on their boat Patriot in Port’s harbor signifying that they completed the Great Loop around the eastern United States once. The Grohmanns got a close-up look at the iconic symbol of a welcoming America when Patriot passed the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor.
t tested their persistence, patience and planning, but in completing the Great Loop on their 32-foot Nordic Tug named Patriot, Gert and Christine Grohmann of Mequon found plenty of something else they didn’t expect: kindred spirits.
The Great Loop...
Business
Laura Motel has traded in her desk chair for a yoga mat as she starts her second act in downtown Port Washington Monday with the opening of Port Washington Yoga, a yoga and meditation studio.
Motel, who last year retired from her corporate career,...
