Sports
GRAFTON QUARTERBACK HUNTER KLIPPEL (above) tried to elude Port Washington’s Kiya Sullivan last Friday in Grafton. Port’s Mason Schwanz tried to run away from Grafton’s Jason Grunwaldt. Port won game, 35-28, sealing it with a deep pass to Sullivan for a late first down. Photos by Mitch Maersch LOWER, THE STUDENT SECTIONS were among the packed stands of spirited fans last Friday at the Nest in Grafton. Port Washington supporters and Grafton cheered hard for their teams. Photos by Sam Arendt
At the end of the day, Port Washington High School’s air raid made just enough plays to send Grafton to a homecoming loss in an electric atmosphere and packed house last Friday.
The Pirates held a 14-point lead in the first half, then fell behind by...
Op-Ed
Alarms are sounding over the speed at which America is flying into the future on the wings of artificial intelligence that could outsmart humans and replace or destroy them. That fear is plausible enough to factor into safeguards against technology running amok, but at this stage it is hypothetical. More worrisome is a real-...
Good Living
FIREFIGHTERS TOM SHARBUNO (left) and Steve Schmidt love Port Washington’s new Public Safety Building, which has ample room for trucks and equipment. They used to ride in the 1950 truck engine that retired in 1992. The two are the longest-serving in the department today. Photos by Sam Arendt
One wanted to be a firefighter since he was a child. Another’s classmate talked him into it.
Nearly half a century later, Tom Sharbuno and Steve Schmidt are both grateful they joined the Port Washington Fire Department, and they are equipped with a...
Business
WITH THEIR SMALLEST and largest bounce houses behind them, the family that operates James Mae Rentals, which provides inflatable bounce houses, games, slides and party essentials such as tents, tables and chairs for rent, stood outside their headquarters in Adell. The business is run by (from left) Kyah Mae and Gavin James Krajenka and their parents Travis and Tanya Goehring. Photo by Sam Arendt
When Tanya Goehring’s son Gavin was young, every birthday meant a party with a bounce house the family rented.
And when his sister Kyah was born, that tradition continued — two parties, two bounce houses — until Kyah’s second birthday, when the...
