Who was the area's top performer last week? You tell us.
You can vote for the high school athlete of the week until 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12. You don't have to be a subscriber to vote.
De Pere football standout Max Goebel was last week's winner, receiving 3,536 votes. Northeastern Wisconsin Lutheran volleyball star Kiley Dhein was runner-up with 2,241 votes.
Here are this week's nominees. Be sure to vote in the poll below
Earned medalist honors with a 42 to help the Spartans win a triangular.

#week #northeastern

Emmanuel Christian volleyball players get together for an overnight outing to create memories while occasionally missing out on some sleep in the process.
That sleepiness has not been enough to keep down the play of Macey Hudson.
Hudson is a junior volleyball player at Emmanuel Christian. In a recent match against Northeastern on Aug. 22, she had 27 kills and 25 digs in a four-set victory for the Lions.
For her efforts, Hudson was named the Dayton Daily News Athlete of the Week, presented by Orthopaedic Institute of Dayton, for Aug. 17-23, earning the honor through reader voting at DaytonDailyNews.com.
"I have had people from our school get nominated and I thought it was really cool, and to have myself get nominated for it was just really an honor," Hudson said.

#volleyball #really #macey

A.J. Cavotta will cap a standout golf year with an autumn trip to Florida.
A teaching pro at Anders Mattson Golf in Saratoga Springs, Cavotta grabbed Northeastern New York's PGA berth into the 50th **** istant PGA Professional Championship, shooting a 3-under-par 139 over 36 holes Monday at Mohawk to win the section's **** istants Championship.
Cavotta, 24, the 2019 Times Union boys' golf Athlete of the Year from Saratoga Springs, was in a three-way tie with Nolan Crowley, who also works at Mattson's studio, and Nick Frankl of Albany. A bogey-free second round of 5-under 66 gave Cavotta a five-stroke victory over Crowley, the 2018 TU boys' golf Athlete of the Year who also played at Saratoga.
The victory punched Cavotta's ticket to Port St. Lucie, Fla., where the Wanamaker Course at the PGA Golf Club will play host to the national **** istants championship Nov. 12-15, and adds to a 2026 season in which he:
• earned $40,000 by winning the Next Golf Tour Championship, a worldwide circuit played on golf simulators (February)
• finished fourth in the Massachusetts Open, taking home $4,500 (June)
• captured the $2,000 top prize at the Donald Ross Classic at Glens Falls, his first major victory in the NENYPGA (June)
• placed second in the New York Open, losing in a playoff, at Bethpage Black, winning $11,000 (July)
• took sixth in the Canada Cup at Victoriaville, Quebec, worth $4,900 (August)
• was selected as the NENYPGA's **** istant Professional of the Year (August)
Scotia native Laura Diaz, now living in Winston-Salem, N.C., tied for seventh in the U.S. Senior Women's Open in Ann Arbor, Mich., 10 shots behind winner Maria McBride of Sweden. Diaz, 51, hit all 14 fairways in three of her four rounds. She tied for 15th last season in her first year of eligibility. … Samantha Schuffenecker has been named the new women's golf coach at Union.

#cavotta #open #professional

By Matthias Williams
Aug 21 (Reuters) - More than 2,500 people have now died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, which is spreading exponentially in an area larger ‌than France, senior United Nations Ebola coordinator Julien Harneis said on Friday.
Speaking on a video ‌call from the northeastern Congolese city of Bunia, Harneis called for more aid, saying an existing pool of funds is set to run out within weeks.
Health workers there were coming under attack by locals angered and terrified by the outbreak, and were themselves falling sick and dying from the disease, he added.
'FEAR TRANSLATES INTO ANGRY YOUNG MEN'

#harneis #democratic

As the death toll from the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) surpasses 2,000 people, infectious disease experts say Americans should remain aware of the humanitarian crisis overseas while understanding the reality of domestic risk.
The virus has spread rapidly across parts of eastern and northeastern DRC, with earlier cross-border cases in Uganda. Published government data shows a total of 4,381 confirmed cases.
"There's a lot of people who live there. So this is not breaking out in a town of 50, but in rural cities of hundreds of thousands," David Wohl, M.D., a professor of medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told Fox News Digital.
Fauci Texts Suggest Officials Were 'Too Slow To Pivot' Amid Pandemic, Says Dr Marc Siegel
"Compared to previous outbreaks, the pace at which this is moving is unprecedented," he went on.

#infectious #ebola #congo

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — First responders searched damaged homes and buildings on Tuesday for possible victims of a powerful tornado that carved a path of destruction through several northeastern Wisconsin communities.
The twister touched down in the Fox Cities region, which includes Appleton, Menasha and Neenah, at around 1 p.m. Monday and remained on the ground for more than 20 minutes as it cut a roughly 12-mile path of destruction through an area, the National Weather Service reported. It was nearly a mile (1.6 kilometers) across at its widest, and it destroyed homes and businesses, flipped cars and knocked down rows of power lines in the region, which is roughly 100 miles (160 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee.
The timing — it blew in when most people were awake and after warnings had been issued — could be why there have been no reported deaths, authorities said.
"I think what helped us was it was during the week," Menasha Police Chief Matt Albrecht said at a news conference Tuesday. "Everybody was at work. It was the middle of the day. Most people were not at home and at their place of employment."
Authorities said a number of people were injured and treated at hospitals, but they didn't know exactly how many or how seriously.

#authorities #homes #down #roughly

The state that played as important of a role as any in the formation of the United States — the home of the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere's midnight ride, the Boston Massacre and the Battles of Lexington and Concord, to name a few major events — has also produced its share of exemplary college athletes.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a bastion of American higher education, with roughly 100 colleges dotted across 7,800 square miles of landmass. And at a number of those schools, there are proud programs with a lengthy history of producing accomplished athletes.
Boston College has produced a Heisman Trophy winner, and future NFL and NHL stars. UMass and Holy Cross have both enjoyed runs as national powerhouses in men's basketball. There are few, if any, places in the country where you'll find better men's and women's college hockey, whether it's the Beanpot quartet of BC, Boston University, Northeastern and Harvard or elsewhere in the commonwealth at places like UMass, UMass Lowell or Merrimack.
Who are the best athletes those schools have produced?
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States, USA TODAY Sports is ranking the top 10 college athletes from each state. The athlete doesn't have to be from the state, but is required to have attended college there to be considered. These rankings are based purely on what an athlete did at the college level, not once they left campus. Tough cuts had to be made, especially somewhere like the Bay State, with so many colleges and universities to consider.

#athletes #umass #produced #states

SIOUX FALLS — Tickets are now on sale for the 2026 South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame banquet that is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 13 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center.
Twenty-one sports legends are set to be inducted, including seven with ties to northeastern and north central South Dakota:
Jason Sutherland, a 1993 Watertown High School graduate who was one of the most gifted and versatile athletes in state history.
Tim Miles, a Doland native and successful college basketball coach.
Jim Dorman, a Castlewood native and statewide athletic administrating guru.

#sunday

DONNAS, Italy (AP) — The iridescent green beetles native to ******* an have become a growing menace in Italy, swarming through orchards and vineyards and leaving behind devastating lattice patterns in leaves that weaken the plants and reduce production.
The Popillia ******* onica, or ******* anese beetle, is a familiar pest in the United States, where it arrived more than a century ago.
But it is a relative newcomer to the European continent, first detected near Milan's Malpensa airport in 2014. In Italy, it has already swarmed through the northeastern regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta, where it appeared last year in terraced vineyards above the town of Donnas.
"We're seeing the popillia steadily advance from terrace to terrace across our historic vineyards," said Luciano Zoppo Ronzero, a winemaker who produces Nebbiolo from the terraced vines. "We're now about the 10th terrace and can already see the popillia attacks. This means they're consuming and gradually moving up the mountain."
With no natural predators and an appetite covering over 300 plants and trees, the ******* anese beetle has made the European Union's list of priority pests, meaning that efforts must be made to contain and eradicate outbreaks.

(Corrects dateline to Ejea)
By Guillermo Martinez and Violeta Santos Moura
EJEA DE LOS CABALLEROS, Spain, July 17 (Reuters) - Firefighters backed by 30 aircraft struggled on Friday to contain a wildfire in northeastern Spain that has ripped through an area the size of San Francisco, forcing ‌the evacuation of more than 1,000 people, as recent heatwaves left vegetation tinder-dry across much of Europe.
Successive early summer heatwaves, which many scientists ‌blame on human-driven climate change, have pushed temperatures to unprecedented levels in large swathes of the continent, causing water shortages, crop damage, wildfires, and thousands more deaths than normal.
According to the Reuters Climate Monitor, the average high across Western Europe on Friday was forecast to be 27.5 degrees Celsius (81.5 degrees Fahrenheit), which is 4.2 C above the normal high for July 17 from 1961-1990.

DAKAR, July 13 (Reuters) - The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to two more northeastern provinces, Haut-Uele ‌and Tshopo, the country's public health institute said in its ‌latest report.
The number of confirmed Ebola cases across the country rose to 1,926, including 702 deaths, official data showed late on Sunday. Four cases were recorded in Tshopo, including two deaths, with one death confirmed in Haut-Uele, as of Saturday.
The latest Ebola outbreak, Congo's 17th, was declared on May 15 and has been ‌largely concentrated in Ituri province, ⁠with cases also reported in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces.
The often fatal viral disease spreads through direct contact ⁠with bodily fluids from infected people or animals and causes symptoms that can include high fever, vomiting and internal and external bleeding.
Reuters reported in late June that Congolese health authorities had started tracing people potentially exposed to Ebola ‌in Tshopo and Haut-Uele, but until now the two provinces had not been included in the government's daily reports.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's newly elected parliament on Sunday held its first session since the ouster of former President Bashar ******* ad, hoping to restart the legislative process in the country after years of conflict and autocratic rule.
The launch of the parliament indicates Syria is moving ahead with drafting new laws as it recovers from decades of brutal rule under the ******* ad family and a deadly civil war that killed about half a million people.
Two-thirds of the 210-member People's ******* embly were elected through electoral colleges, while one-third were appointed directly by the country's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa. The new parliament will serve a 30-month term while preparing for future elections.
"After liberating our homeland and regaining our freedom, we are all moving toward consolidating the state," al-Sharaa said in an address to parliamentarians.
After taking an oath, the legislators elected Abdul Hamid al-Awak as speaker. Al-Awak, who is from northeastern Hassakeh province, served as a judge in the Justice Ministry for a decade, according to Syria's state-run SANA news agency. Reports said he was among many Syrian officials who defected from the ******* ad government in the early days of the uprising and left to Turkey.

The Oklahoma Sooners have made an addition to their recruiting and scouting teams, with a new hire to start July. OU has hired Manaia Brown as a scouting coordinator in their recruiting department.
Brown was most recently the ****** istant director of recruiting at Fresno State. The former Nebraska and BYU defensive tackle also spent a year as the defensive line coach at Northeastern State following a stint at Garden City Community College, the alma mater of head coach Brent Venables. He also has over ten years of coordinator experience. As a player, he was a two-time All-Mountain West selection, and even signed a free-agent contract with Washington in the NFL.
His hiring is far from the only support staff move the Sooners have made this offseason, and he'll help to replace the loss of scouting coordinator T.J. Lynn, who left for a job as a graduate ****** istant at UCLA coaching cornerbacks.
Built for the grind. Hungry for the challenge.

Proud to be part of Oklahoma Football. Time to go compete for championships, build relationships, and chase greatness every single day.

Let’s get to work.

Boomer Sooner. #OUDNA #HardToKill pic.twitter.com/R38OwSKtiJ
— Manaia_Brown (Coach_Brown5) July 2, 2026

An 11-year-old boy crashed a pickup truck into a group of monks on a pilgrimage walk in northeastern Thailand on Thursday, killing nine and injuring 13 others, officials said.
A total of 35 monks from Mukdahan province, about 600 kilometers northeast of the capital Bangkok, were on the pilgrimage. Five monks were killed at the site, while three others died at a hospital, according to Mukdahan Governor Worrayan Boonnarat. The office later announced the death of a ninth monk.
Thirteen were hospitalized with three in critical condition, according to the provincial administration.
The group started the 260-kilometer walk to Ubon Ratchathani province about 30 minutes before the crash.
Security camera footage shared by a local rescue group, Ruam Jai Mukdahan Rescue ****** ociation, shows the monks walking in a single line on the side of a road before the truck crashes into them.

A man who flew his plane into Beijing's tallest skyscraper last week was a 66-year-old local resident who had expressed suicidal thoughts, Chinese authorities said Thursday, amid intense speculation about the pilot's identity and motivation.
The crash took place on Friday evening when a small plane appeared to evade some of the world's strictest aviation controls and slam into the 109-story CITIC Tower that dominates the capital's skyline, killing the pilot and injuring 13 other people.
The incident was strictly censored in China and it took nearly a day for authorities to acknowledge the crash.
On Thursday, authorities released new details about who was flying the plane.
The pilot, who was only identified by his surname Liu, took off from a general aviation airport in northeastern Beijing on Friday afternoon, initially flying with a companion in the two-seater Sunward SA60L Aurora, a domestically manufactured aircraft, according to a statement from the city's Chaoyang District government.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian missiles and drones killed at least 12 civilians and injured 40 others in Ukraine on Monday in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as "horrific attacks."
Since Russia launched its all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago, its forces have conducted bombing in an effort to destroy Ukraine's infrastructure and sap morale. More than 16,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the U.N.
A Russian missile targeting infrastructure struck the central city of Dnipro, killing six people and wounding 29, Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said. Russian drones also hit a passenger minibus in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three and wounding six, including a child, Zelenskyy said on social media.
Russian drones also killed a 69-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man in the northeastern Sumy region, National Police said. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a daytime Russian strike killed one person and wounded five others in the northeastern city.
Other deadly attacks occurred in at least six other regions of Ukraine, authorities said. No further details were immediately available.

Jeremy Woo will continue making mock NBA drafts for ESPN for the foreseeable future.
The Worldwide Leader announced on Monday that it had reached a multi-year extension with Woo.
Woo originally joined ESPN in 2023 as an NBA draft ****** yst and reporter, eventually replacing Jonathan Givony as the network’s go-to person for creating mock drafts, prospect rankings, and scouting ****** ysis. He also makes appearances across ESPN programming to discuss the NBA draft and player ****** ysis.
Before joining ESPN, Woo spent nearly a decade at Sports Illustrated, building up their NBA Draft coverage and becoming a leading industry voice in talent evaluation.
The Northeastern grad contributed to the Emmy-nominated basketball documentary Shot in the Dark (2018), which chronicled the lives of high school basketball players in Chicago. He also collaborated on Kobe Bryant’s New York Times best-seller The Mamba Mentality: How I Play.

A new Boston financial study is giving a select group of young local workers the opportunity to shout: "Show me the money!"
The study, led by the city-sponsored Bank on Boston initiative — along with partners at Northeastern University and Harvard Business School, among others — is giving 15 lucky members of a summer youth employment program up to $1,000 to invest in a Roth IRA (1).
Robert Kiyosaki says this 1 ******* et will surge 400% in a year and begs investors not to miss this 'explosion'
Millionaires under 43 hold only 25% of their wealth in stocks. Surprised? Here's where their money is actually going
Jeff Bezos backs a platform that lets anyone invest in rental homes for as little as $100 — here are 5 ways to build wealth like a landlord without actually being one

A new Boston financial study is giving a select group of young local workers the opportunity to shout: "Show me the money!"
The study, led by the city-sponsored Bank on Boston initiative — along with partners at Northeastern University and Harvard Business School, among others — is giving 15 lucky members of a summer youth employment program up to $1,000 to invest in a Roth IRA (1).
Robert Kiyosaki says this 1 ****** et will surge 400% in a year and begs investors not to miss this 'explosion'
Millionaires under 43 hold only 25% of their wealth in stocks. Surprised? Here's where their money is actually going
Jeff Bezos backs a platform that lets anyone invest in rental homes for as little as $100 — here are 5 ways to build wealth like a landlord without actually being one

PWHL San Jose finished their first-ever draft by selected forwards Lily Shannon and Mckenna Van Gelder and Reichen Kirchmair.
At No. 40, Troy Ryan selected one of the best stories in the draft, Lily Shannon. 5-foot-10 Shannon was born with moderate hearing loss and wears hearing aids. The 5-foot-11 forward was offered a walk-on redshirt spot with Northeastern University after high school. She blossomed into a captain who scored 19 goals and 43 points in 39 games in her senior year
The Hockey News rated Shannon 18th in the class, and fourth among centers. “As Northeastern’s captain, she’s showing a more versatile game, including offensively,” Ian Kennedy wrote. “Shannon is a name who has continued to climb the rankings this season, and she looks more and more like a player who can make an impact professionally.”
Shannon brought a lot of personality to her post-Draft media availability, joking that she was happy to get picked because she had to pee and couldn’t leave her seat.
She also promised to bring a Walter Cup to PWHL San Jose.

Clermont Northeastern High School athletic director Andrew Marlatt announced the hiring of Marcie Alberts as the school's next girls basketball coach.
"We are extremely excited to welcome coach Marcie Alberts and her family to Clermont Northeastern Schools. Coach Alberts has an impressive coaching and playing resume. Everyone I spoke to about Marcie indicated her outstanding coaching ability, passion for the game and positive impact on the student-athletes she has coached. She will certainly bring a high level of basketball knowledge, intensity and a winning pedigree to our girls basketball program. I am very excited for the girls in our basketball program and we plan to establish years of stability under coach Alberts leadership and guidance," Marlatt said.
She has over 30 years of experience as both a player and a coach. She was most recently the coach at Wapakoneta, where she had a 22-48 record in three seasons. She was also the head coach at Orrville High School, accruing a 117-45 record to start her coaching career.
Prior to Wapakoneta, she was an ****** istant coach at Purdue University-Fort Wayne for nine seasons and the head coach at Heidelberg College from 2008 to 2013.
Alberts is perhaps most known for her time at Ohio State University, where she was a four-year letterwinner and team captain. She held multiple program records at the time of her graduation and is still in the top 10 in program history in made three-pointers, three-point percentage and free throw percentage.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A cholera outbreak in northeastern Nigeria has killed 74 people and infected more than 7,000 others since it started in early May, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.
The outbreak, reported in 14 of Borno state's 27 local governments, is unfolding in communities with health systems made fragile by nearly two decades of violent extremism from the Boko Haram insurgent group.
The illness is endemic and seasonal in the country, where only 14% of Nigeria's population of more than 200 million have access to safely managed drinking water supply services, according to government data from 2020.
The situation is sometimes worse in Borno, both in Maiduguri, the state's capital, which is densely populated, and in remote communities with poor sanitation and hygiene due in part to being out of the close reach of health authorities.
The medical group said that it has treated 7,439 cholera patients at its facilities, representing an average of 185 admissions per day. It said that it recorded 500 patients last week on Friday, a single-day record in the outbreak.

A high-profile lawsuit between two well-known entities is never just tried in a courthouse; it's also tried in the court of public opinion. And that's exactly what's happening with the Pattie Gonia vs. Patagonia copyright infringement case. The apparel company sued the drag queen in January after she applied for a trademark to sell merchandise and promote her activism and online marketing. This, the company alleges in a statement posted on its website, violated a previously held agreement between the two parties — though the drag queen claims there was no agreement.
Patagonia maintained it did not want to sue Pattie Gonia, but needed to do so to protect its trademark and itself from bad actors. Initially, when the lawsuit was filed, the drag queen remained silent. However, that silence was broken last week, when she uploaded a video to Instagram and a written statement, claiming that the brand is trying to "erase an activist." At first, Pattie had the court of public opinion on her side, especially in this fraught political landscape where queer and nonbinary people's rights are at risk, and drag queens are used as scapegoats.
The two parties have shared their stipulations for dropping the lawsuit on social media: Pattie says that she would drop her pursuit of a trademark if the brand agrees to drop the lawsuit. Meanwhile, the brand says it will drop the lawsuit if she drops all trademark applications, ceases using its logos, and stops selling and promoting apparel and other products under the name Pattie Gonia.
As the two parties reach a stalemate, Out spoke with three lawyers who specialize in trademark and intellectual property law about what is going on in this case, who has greater legal standing, and what the path forward is for both Pattie Gonia and Patagonia.
Alexandra J. Roberts is a professor of law and media at Northeastern University and a leading voice in intellectual property and social media, with expertise in trademark law. She largely sides with Pattie because she feels the brand has a much higher bar to clear, given the claims in the lawsuit.

A meteor exploded off the coast of Massachusetts on May 30, and video and audio clips shared online captured the fireball and massive boom it caused.
NASA confirmed through satellite images that the meteor broke apart at an altitude of about 40 miles over northeastern Massachusetts at 2:06 p.m. ET.
The agency said in a statement on X that the meteor released energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT explosives, causing a loud noise in the area. The pieces of the meteor landed in Cape Cod Bay, NASA also said.
People as far south as Rhode Island and Cape Cod reported feeling it on the ground, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Here's a look at videos capturing the sights and sounds of the meteor.

Photos of Shiite Muslims displaced from Syria living at a newly opened camp in Lebanon

HERMEL, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of Shiite Muslims who fled Syria after former President Bashar ****** ad's government was toppled in an offensive by Sunni rebels in December 2024 have found a new home in Lebanon.
Many of them stayed in mosques, schools or with relatives in Lebanon until the Imam Ali Housing Compound — funded by Lebanon's Shiite militant Hezbollah group and Shiite religious institutions in Iraq and Iran — was opened in late 2025. The camp, in the northeastern Lebanese town of Hermel, has

Scientists have sequenced the oldest-ever RNA from a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth named Yuka, whose remains were found frozen on a bluff in northeastern Siberia.

The research opens a new window on past life.

Isolated flash flooding will be possible over the next 3-5 hours from northeastern Louisiana into central Mississippi and central Alabama.