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When the Glencoe-Silver Lake volleyball team arrived at Jordan, the Panthers had a good idea of what the Jaguars wanted to do in their sectional playoff match Thursday, Oct. 24.
“I feel our team scouted well and knew their strong points,” said GSL senior captain Hannah Boesche. “I felt we capitalized on them but just fell short.”

Members of the Glencoe Ceramics Association ready their pots to be loaded into the wood-fired kiln, also called an anagama kiln, which is located on the left side of the picture.

Silver Lake's Rick Ceynar (left), playing a demonic priest, and Glencoe's Travis Lamblin, playing Krampus, are two of the many scary characters at Scream Town. They both thoroughly enjoy scaring people.

If it doesn’t cost too much money, Brownton City Councilors might hire a consultant to help them determine possible changes to the city’s employee salary schedule.
At a special meeting Monday evening, Oct. 28, Mayor Norm Schwarze was the first to suggest the council look at the cost of hiring a consultant, but it wasn’t until later in the meeting other councilors signed on to the notion.
As the pay schedule sits right now, employees get a 3 percent raise for 2020 at the council’s discretion. The city is looking at a pay schedule that includes steps and percentage increases.

After an extensive information campaign that included letters to households throughout the Glencoe-Silver Lake School District, a series of town hall meetings throughout the district and plenty of discussion online, voters will have their say on the Glencoe-Silver Lake School District’s request for an expanded operating levy Tuesday, Nov. 5.