Short stories and photos shared with humor and love
The Appleton Area School District needs money and I can give you 33 years worth of reasons I think we taxpayers should give it to them. That's how long I've been sending students to Appleton Public schools -- including hundreds of parent teacher conferences, book reports, math assignments, science projects, concerts and athletic events. In [...]
Our 14 years as Appleton North High School parents passed as quickly as a lightning strike. Those days were so filled with music and mayhem, theater and drama, football and fun that we felt like we took our oldest son Charlie to his high school orientation one day, and attended our youngest daughter Molly's graduation [...]
Appleton North theatre director Ron Parker picked the perfect show for the school theatre program's return to live theatre. The Spongebob Musical offered everything we've been missing since these past two years -- Humor! Warmth! Color! Whimsy! Music! Dancing! Flying Mermaids! and Talent! My oh my, that show offered plenty of talent. We saw it [...]
I am not afraid... I was born to do this. -- St. Joan of Arc Appleton North Theatre Director Ron Parker has directed, encouraged, inspired and transformed 22 straight high school casts enroute to the Wisconsin High School Theatre State finals and he has received a Critic's Choice in all of them so far, a [...]
Those front porch pictures looked both refreshingly familiar and startling new yesterday as students from our area posed on their first day of school. Some of them masked up and headed into schools, others turned around and headed right back into their houses for their first day. I salute them all and their teachers, staff, [...]