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Check it out today! Rivers, Bucks enter with on their SPORTS, 1B THERESA For over 100 years, the Widmer family has been crafting arti- san cheeses in a small cheese plant along the banks of the Rock River in the small village of Theresa. At the age of 18, John O. Widmer, the founder of Cheese Cellars, left his home in Switzerland and emigrated to Wisconsin where he learned the art of cheesemaking. While apprenticing at a cheese factory in Kekoskee he learned to make brick cheese, created by fellow Swiss immigrant John Jossi at a Dodge County cheese plant in Lebanon. When Widmer set up shop in the small cheese plant, formerly the River- side Cheese Factory, he decided that aged brick cheese would become the signature cheese.
the cheese that my great- grandfather started making when he CHEESE CELLARS After the curds are scooped into stainless steel hoops, century old bricks are placed on top of stainless steel plates covering the cheese curds. The weight of the bricks helps to press the curds into 5-pound pieces. PHOTOS BY COLLEEN STATE FARMER Company built 102 years of success on aged brick cheese Colleen Kottke Wisconsin State Farmer USA TODAY NETWORK The facade of Cheese Cellar in Theresa sports the crests of 20-plus cantons, a tribute to the Widmer Swiss Heritage. See CHEESE, Page 3A The Neenah Joint School District Board of Education unanimously vot- ed Monday evening to name Appleton Area School District assistant superin- tendent Dr. Steve Harri- son as its new superin- tendent.
hiring is contingent on a suc- cessful background check and contract negotiations. Harrison will replace Dr. Mary who will retire as the NJSD su- perintendent June 30. many ways, this feels like coming said Harrison in a news release from NJSD. According to the release, his mother was a reading spe- cialist at Spring Road Elementary School in Neenah from 1981-2003.
spent a lot of time in my classroom while growing up and it fueled my desire to work in Harrison said. exciting to come back to a district that has given so much to my brings a fresh vision and en- ergy to Board of Education president Brian Epley said in the news release. strong background in curriculum and instruction set him apart as a candidate. He also brings an inclusive mindset to build a connected culture across the entire Harrison has served as Appleton Area School assistant super- intendent for assessment, curriculum and instruction for the past years. Before coming to Appleton, Harri- son worked at Oshkosh West High School, teaching science for 10 years and serving as an assistant principal for two.
He holds a doctorate from Car- dinal Stritch University and degrees from University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh and UW-Milwaukee. hiring comes after four-month search for new NJSD superintendent Harrison was chosen from three nalist candidates after a superinten- dent search that started in January. The NJSD Board of Education retained the services of search Hazard, Young, Attea, Associates, which con- ducted studies of students, faculty and community to out the Neenah board picks Appleton school to be the new superintendent Rebecca Loroff Appleton Post-Crescent USA TODAY NETWORK WISCONSIN Harrison See SCHOOL, Page 2A Years before the toll and before Gov. Tony Evers declared 2023 Year of Mental a small community in northeastern Wisconsin confronted a cluster of suicides, Wis- consinites all over started overdosing on a little-known drug called fentanyl, and more and more employees were experi- encing 10 or more poor mental health days a month. mental health crisis was grow- ing and system of care challenges were untenable for both kids and adults at the time, and we were struggling to work in the space of population-level, upstream prevention.
We were just sort of manag- ing the present moment crisis all over the said Beth Clay, executive di- rector at N.E.W. Mental Health Connec- tion, a coalition of diverse stakeholders working on mental health and suicide prevention in the Fox Valley region, which includes Winnebago, Calumet and Outagamie counties. In one of acts as executive director in 2015, she applied for a grant from the Advancing Behavioral Health Initiative, part of the Medical College of Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin Endowment. The grant seemed too good to be true: It was $20 million over an eight-year period, with $1.2 million going to each selected com- munity. The funding based on a Report shows 8 years of progress on mental health needs Natalie Eilbert Green Bay Press-Gazette USA TODAY NETWORK WISCONSIN See HEALTH, Page 9A.
