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By David Nordby The Brillion News   MADISON – The collective heart rate of Reedsville was working its way back down late Friday morning. Regardless of what happens in the Division 5 state championship game on Saturday, everyone will remember watching the Panthers erase a nine-point deficit with 5:41 left on their way to a 75-72 win over Sheboygan Lutheran in the state semifinal at the Kohl Center in Madison. With force down the lane that Panthers’ fans have seen so many times

The Brillion News HILBERT - Nathan Wesener will replace the retiring Tony Sweere as the Hilbert Public Schools superintendent. The move was officially approved by the Hilbert School Board on Tuesday night. Wesener, a 2003 Hilbert High School graduate, has served as a special education teacher and is currently the middle/high school principal. "I'm very excited. I think it's a great next chapter from where I'm at and where I come from," Wesener told the newspaper on Thursday.

The Brillion News BRILLION - Sunday's blizzard conditions temporarily put a halt to Ariens Company's operations. The company shut down manufacturing for third shift Sunday continuing Monday for first and second shift plant operations and office employees in Brillion.

By David Nordby The Brillion News   OCONTO FALLS – For the first time in 80 years, the Reedsville boys basketball team will compete in the state tournament. The Panthers held off undefeated Tigerton 56-45 on Saturday afternoon in the sectional championship at Oconto Falls after a second half where Reedsville gave up just 12 points. “Beyond excited. This is what we worked for the whole season,” senior Arden Strenn said. “We knew we had a chance from the beginning, but this is

The Brillion News   Reedsville is one game away from the WIAA state tournament after Thursday night’s 69-49 Division 5 sectional semifinal win over Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah at Menasha. The win moves No. 1 Reedsville into the sectional final game, where they’ll meet No. 1 Tigerton at Oconto Falls on Saturday at 1 p.m.   This was the third time this season the Panthers beat the Pointers. In Division 3, No. 3 Xavier beat No. 1 Brillion 69-61 at Oshkosh North. Xavier took an 11-po

The Brillion News TOWN OF CHILTON – A 77-year-old De Pere man was killed at the scene of a three-car crash at the intersection of State Highway 57 and Schneider Road in the Town of Chilton on Monday night. The Calumet County Sheriff’s Office received a call for the accident at 8:12 p.m. The preliminary investigation showed that the man was traveling northbound on STH 57 and crossed into the southbound lane and struck two oncoming vehicles. The driver of one of the southbound