KOHLER - Kohler Co., a global leader in the innovation and manufacture of plumbing products; tile, cabinetry and lighting; and engines, generators and clean energy solutions, released its annual 2020 Believing in Better Metrics Report outlining progress in reducing the company’s GHG emission intensity, waste to landfill intensity, water use intensity and other key social and environmental commitments. Kohler is committed to providing access to safe water for communities around the globe, delivering innovative solutions to address pressing social issues and strengthening its efforts around diversity, equity and inclusion...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
New ice rink coming to downtown Neenah expected to open in November
NBC26
NEENAH – A new plaza coming to Gateway Park in Neenah is making the city's downtown a little more cool. The plaza is being converted into a 122-foot-long ice rink.
The plaza was donated as a gift to the city. John Bergstrom, the chairman of Bergstrom Automotive, is part of a group of investors who bought the plaza are paying to operate it at no cost to the city...
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Despite weather and COVID challenges, organizer considers Mile of Music a success
WBAY
APPLETON - Organizers with Mile of Music say they are cancelling Sunday’s final set out of precaution due to severe weather in the area.
Event organizers announced the cancellation late Sunday afternoon, saying storms were expected to reach the area during the timeframe of the show.
The final set, called “A Song Before We Go” is a tradition for the event.
However, A Song Before We Go will return to Lawrence Chapel in 2022 as the closing event.
“Having 50% of the festival outside this weekend, is really the first year in quite some time that we’ve had any significant weather. We kind of thought, it’ll probably be the year that it happens, and sure enough, it’s the year that it happens,” Dave Willems, Mile of Music Curator, said...
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Leadership in the New North
Dr. Kathryn Rogalski of NWTC chosen for National Presidential Fellowship for Community College Leaders
NWTC
GREEN BAY - The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program today announced that Dr. Kathryn Rogalski, vice president of learning at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College, is one of 40 leaders selected for the 2021-22 class of the Aspen Rising Presidents Fellowship, a highly selective leadership program preparing the next generation of community college presidents to transform institutions to achieve higher and more equitable levels of student success.
The Rising Presidents Fellows will embark on the 10-month fellowship beginning in November 2021. Delivered in collaboration with the Stanford Educational Leadership…