Athens
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Athens Middle School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2021-22 school year.
Highest Honors Grade six: Itzel Espinoza and Trisha Giese.
Grade eight: Jordan Frahm and Isabella Zastrow.
High Honors Grade six: Ted Schultz-Becker, Joseph Servi, Kaleb Staus, Jaelin Switlick and Derek Yessa.
Grade seven: Delaney Beasley and Karly Eckert.
Grade eight: Sy’Rih Hartwig, Brandon Krause, Evin Passehl, Riley Schultz-Becker and Bradley Yessa.
Honors Grade six: Alex Belter, Ayva Haehlke, Bradley Schmidt, Cristopher Velazquez and Hayden Weideman.
Grade seven: Brock Beaty, Mason Belter, Ava Erickson, Dale Felix, Garrett Frahm, Cole Hartmann, Dakota Nowacki and Preston Schreiner.
Grade eight: Gavin Frahm, Alyvia Haehlke, Madison Harris and Zachary Martyn.
Girls Scouts event
The Athens Girl Scouts will hold a fundraiser at Erbach Park in Athens on Friday, Feb. 4, from 4-7 p.m.
Athens Girl Scouts will serve brats, hot dogs, chili, chicken dumpling soup, hot cocoa and hot cider to be purchased. Funds raised willl be used for a community project in Athens.
On campus
Athens college students Daniel Zoromski, studying health sciences and Abraham Miller, architecture, were awarded to the dean’s list at UW-Milwau- kee for the fall 2021 semester.
Progress Athens
A community-wide Progress Athens meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at Athens Community Hall. The public is encouraged to attend this meeting.
Progress Athens is an initiative to raise donations for the efforts to purchase and renovate the old US Bank building located on Alfred Street, complete long overdue updates to the Community Hall bathrooms and to enhance the existing municipal building space to provide opportunity to be further utilized.
Goals of the Feb. 9 meeting are to share more information about the project, such as layout ideas for both locations; report the account balance and field questions to hopefully spark additional support for this community initiative.
Progress Athens has received $141,773.77 in donations thus far toward its $250,000 goal.
Candlelight walk
The Athens Area Trail Association’s seventh annual Candlelight/Moonlight Walk will be held on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 7-9 p.m.
People are welcome to walk, snowshoe or cross country ski the approximatly 2-1/2 miles of groomed candlelight trails at Erbach Park during this event.
Admission is free and preregistration is not required for people to attend this event. The public can also enjoy food for purchase in the shelter, sponsored by the Athens Boy Scouts, and a giant campfire at the Candlelight/Moonlight Walk.
Donations are greatly appreciated to aid in winter trail manintenance costs. .
COVID dashboard
Athens Public Schools reported six positive cases of COVID-19 as of Jan. 31, out of 552 staff and students.
There are three students with positive COVID-19 cases in Athens Elementary School, two students in Athens middle/high school charter school. No Athens School District staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 All students and staff who tested positive for COVID-19 are in isolation at home.
One hundred and five staff and students have tested positive for COVID-19 since Aug. 31, 2021.
Senior Citizens
The Senior Citizens card group met on Jan. 27 for weekly card playing at the Athens Area Fire and Ambulance Hall.
Two games of Sheepshead was played. Steve Klockziem won the first game and Wil Strack took second place. Doc Weise won the second game and Norbert Lake placed second. Pat Frank received low score.
Newcomers are encouraged to come play Sheepshead every Thursday from 1-3:30 p.m. at the Athens fire hall.
