Independent-Scout wins awards INDEPENDENT-SCOUT reporter Gillian Pomplun and editor Charley Preusser hold the three first place awards won in the WNA Better Newspaper Contest.
GAYS MILLS - It’s the right time of year for a little pick-me up…frankly, maybe it’s just the
right yearfor a little pick-me-up. Anyway, that’s just what the Crawford County Independent & Kickapoo Scout received last Friday night courtesy of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association. The WNA held a virtual awards ceremony to honor those who won awards in the Better Newspaper Contest. And, the Independent-Scout was right in the thick of it–winning nine awards for small weekly newspapers (in Division F), including three first-place awards.
Local newspapers mourn loss of head pressman to COVID-19 PHIL MUENCH, Head Pressman for Morris Newspaper of Wisconsin, passed away the afternoon of Dec. 10 after an extended fight with the COVID-19 virus. He was 52.
DRIFTLESS - The people who work at the newspapers of southwest Wisconsin are in mourning as one our longtime colleagues, Head Pressman Phil Muench, passed away the afternoon of Dec. 10 after an extended fight with the COVID-19 virus.
If you have read almost any southwest Wisconsin newspaper for any period of time, including the Boscobel Dial, or if you get The Reminder shopper at your home, you have gotten a product that Phil Muench had a hand in.
Newspapers lose one of their own Muench played a role in printing most of the newspapers of SW Wisconsin Morris Newspapers of Wisconsin Head Pressman Phil Muench reviews the color quality of the Fennimore Times during the start of printing that week s edition in this file photo. With the exception of vacations, Muench had handled almost every copy of most of the local weekly newspapers in southwest Wisconsin since he started working for then-Lancaster Newspapers in 1988.
The people who work at the newspapers of southwest Wisconsin are in mourning as one our longtime colleagues, Head Pressman Phil Muench, passed away the afternoon of Dec. 10 after an extended fight with the COVID-19 virus.