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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Titletown announces Josh Turner as headliner for free Summer Fun Days Showcase concert
With barely time for an exhale after the 2025 NFL Draft, Titletown has announced country singer Josh Turner will headline its annual Summer Fun Days Showcase on June 7. The free concert will be at 8:30 p.m. on a stage set up in Titletown. DJay Mando will get the crowd warmed up beginning at 7 p.m. Turner, known for his distinctive baritone, has hit songs that include "Long Black Train," "Why Don't We Just Dance," "Firecracker" and "Would You Go With Me." His appearance follows Bebe Rexha, who headlined last year's Summer Fun Days Showcase. Country singer Josh Turner will perform a free concert June 7 at Titletown for the annual Summer Fun Days Showcase. More: Brad Paisley breaks out the hits for the 2025 NFL Draft finale, but his epic selfie moment won the night The family event runs from 3 to 10 p.m. and includes a paint-by-numbers art mural, children's characters, bingo, artists in the park, line dancing, themed trivia, kids cardio dance, an imagination station and a mini night market. There will be food trucks and other food and beverage options available on the grounds. No carry-ins are allowed. Concert attendees are asked not to bring lawn chairs to allow for more standing room space. Free parking will be available in the Titletown and Lambeau Field parking lots. More information on the Summer Fun Days Showcase is available at Kendra Meinert is an entertainment and feature writer at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Contact her at 920-431-8347 or kmeinert@ Follow her on X @KendraMeinert. This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Josh Turner to play Titletown for free Summer Fun Days concert
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
Green Bay airport, campgrounds get boost in bookings for NFL draft
GREEN BAY - The three campgrounds in Brown County were almost booked to full capacity. Out of the 245 campsites available during the draft, 93% were booked over the three days, said Matt Kriese, the county parks director. About 30 to 40 people didn't show up who had booked a site, he said, which wasn't that many more cancellations than a weekend in a typical camping season. Advertisement Brown County opened up its three campgrounds — Reforestation Camp, Brown County Fairgrounds and Bay Shore Park — for the draft ahead of the typical season and raised prices to $100 a night during the draft, up $48 to $76 than its typical rates. Most of the sites were filled up by February. The Fairgrounds wasn't much busier, Kriese said, but the other two campgrounds had more visits than a typical weekend. Things ran smoothly, with people being more welcoming to each other and open to neighbors than usual during camping season. "It was a really (welcoming) event. People started showing up on that Wednesday," Kriese said. "They were outside tailgating and a camping atmosphere with their neighbors." Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport also saw the impacts of the draft, creating a new record for air traffic. Advertisement The airport extended air traffic control hours and added at least seven nonstop flights in anticipation of the draft. It paid off — the airport had one of its busiest weeks in its history and over 150 volunteers signed up to help and greet travelers, airport director Marty Piette said in a Facebook post April 28. More: 6 post-NFL draft takeaways from Ashwaubenon, Brown County, Green Bay, tourism officials Contact Benita Mathew at bmathew@ This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay airport, campgrounds get boost in bookings for NFL draft
NBC Sports
27-04-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
NFL says 600,000 fans attended the draft in Green Bay
The NFL draft might not draw a Super Bowl-level TV audience. It definitely generates a Super Bowl-level crowd. The league announced that 600,000 attended the draft in Green Bay. While that's down from last year's all-time record of 775,000 in Detroit, Detroit is a much larger city and metropolitan area. It's impressive. It merits praise. Green Bay hit a home run. That said, it's high time that we come to terms with the fact that the crowd-size numbers trumpeted by the league carry a not-so-subtle alternative-facts vibe. The first point should be obvious. There wasn't a crowd of 600,000 at one specific time. That was the total attendance for the three days, lumped together. Second, it wasn't 600,000 different people over three days. Surely, there was significant overlap. The third point is more subtle. Because draft attendance is free, fans can come and go at will. And every time they enter the draft area, it counts as another fan. So if, for example, someone goes back to their car and returns to the draft, that's two not one. Consider this. Via Richard Ryman of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, Thursday night's attendance was 205,000. Saturday's was 220,000. Anyone who watched the draft on Saturday knows it was never as crowded as it was on Thursday night. Not even close. But with people wandering in and out over the six-hour Saturday marathon, there would have been plenty of duplication. It's all still very impressive. But it's not a real number. In Green Bay or in Detroit or in any location where people can come and go through the perimeter — and who will then count as two or three or four or five fans. And, yes, there are ways to accurately estimate the true, unduplicated number of attendees for each day. There's no reason to do it, however, if the end result will be a much less resounding victory lap.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Voting for the 2025 Packers Everywhere Fan Favorite photo contest is now open
Football fans can now vote in this year's Packers Everywhere Fan Favorite photo contest. Five finalists were selected from thousands of entries, and fans have until May 1 to select their favorite. The winner will be announced May 6. Advertisement Fans can vote once daily at Each time someone votes, they will beentered to win two tickets to a Packers home game. The winning photo will be featured in locations around Lambeau Field during a 2025 regular-season home game, including on the marquee signs outside the stadium. The finalists are: Bianca Shriver of Sutherland, IA Jim Lee from Stevenson Ranch, CA Lexi Roerk from Owensboro, KY MaKynna Lesinski from Stevens Point Miranda Young from Chippewa Falls The grand prize winner also will receive two tickets to the game in which their photo is featured, plus airfare and hotel accommodations for two nights. This photo of her sons won Jen Hall of Oregon, Ill., the 2024 Packers Everywhere Fan Favorite Contest. Jen Hall's picture of her two sons, Tate and Tripp, was voted the top photo in 2024 contest. The photo was taken in front of their home in Oregon, IL. Advertisement Contact Richard Ryman at rryman@ Follow him on Twitter at @RichRymanPG, on Instagram at @rrymanPG or on Facebook at This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Voting for Packers Everywhere Fan Favorite photo contest is now open
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Yahoo
Harassment against Ojibwe spearers continues more than 30 years after the 'Walleye Wars'
Gary Belille Jr., 33, a Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe tribal member, thought he'd be safe from harassment while spearfishing on his tribe's reservation in northern Wisconsin. He, his cousin, and another group of tribal members set out from a boat landing near Anchor Bay on the reservation to spear for walleye on Lac Courte Oreilles Lake the night of April 7. Coming back to shore about 10 p.m., they found the tires of their pickup trucks had been slashed. 'They (the vandals) were definitely non-tribal people because this happened last year to other spearers near the same area,' Belille said. 'But I never expected this to happen on the reservation. Being a victim of this, I'm at a loss for words. We're not bugging anyone.' He said they reported the incident to tribal police, who are implementing a plan to try to catch the perpetrators. Earlier that day, Gov. Tony Evers released a statement warning against this kind of harassment. 'It's our responsibility to help uphold agreements and honor treaty rights, protect against harvesting harassment and to call out anti-Native hate and racism when we hear it,' Evers said in a video message on social media. Other officials released similar statements. 'The (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources) agency fully supports legally protected Ojibwe treaty rights and tribal sovereignty,' said DNR Secretary Karen Hyun. 'We will swiftly act on incidents of violence and harassment against tribal citizens.' The state's top prosecutor weighed in, as well. 'Tribal members must be able to safely exercise their right to hunt, fish and gather in the Ceded Territories without unlawful interference,' said Attorney General Josh Kaul. Despite these warnings, incidents of harassment against Ojibwe spearers still occur annually more than 30 years after the 'Walleye Wars.' Many of these incidents go unreported, but when perpetrators are caught in incidents that do get reported, they often face little to no penalty from non-tribal courts. In 2021, a hate crime charge was dropped against a St. Germain man who the previous year had fired his gun as Ojibwe spearfishers boated on the lake near his home. James Kelsey, then 62, pleaded no contest to using a gun while intoxicated and had to pay a $343.50 fine and serve no jail time, a Vilas County judge had ruled, to the ire and frustration of tribal members and their supporters. 'It's basically 300 and something dollars to shoot at us as we practice our treaty rights to fish,' Greg (Biskakone) Johnson told the Green Bay Press-Gazette at the time of the ruling. Ojibwe tribal members have the treaty rights to hunt and fish off-reservation and off the state-designated harvest season. These treaty rights were made with the federal government in the mid-1850s in exchange for the government taking millions of acres of Ojibwe land in northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula — collectively known as the Ceded Territories. State governments had ignored these treaty rights until federal courts affirmed them in the 1970s. This eventually led to Ojibwe spearers harvesting in the early spring in Wisconsin lakes, which drew large angry protests from many non-tribal members around the country. Some of these protests grew violent during a period known as the 'Walleye Wars' in the 1980s. Rocks were hurled at tribal members; boats were rammed into their boats; racial slurs were yelled at them. The memories and effects of that time linger in the Northwoods. Many non-Indigenous residents unfairly blame tribal members for declining walleye populations, despite tribal fish hatcheries stocking many more walleye into Wisconsin lakes than tribal members harvest. More: Critics contend Ojibwe overfish walleye. Thanks to tribal fish hatcheries, it's not even close. In addition, ecologists with the DNR set safe walleye harvest limits for tribal members for each lake. The harvests are then counted by creel clerks waiting on shore. Also, there are about 500 tribal spearers in Wisconsin compared to about 2 million non-tribal anglers, according to DNR officials. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, which helps manage natural resources in the Ceded Territories, encourages tribal members to remember the 'four Cs' if being harassed while harvesting. These are to create distance between the perpetrators, confirm their location for authorities, call 911 and check in with the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission. Belille said the incident won't deter him from practicing his treaty right to feed his family and his tribe. 'We're getting tired of it throughout the years of this happening to us,' he said. 'It's all hate is what it is.' More: Tribal spearfishers continue practice for food sovereignty, culture despite claims of harassment in northern Wisconsin Sign up for the First Nations Wisconsin newsletter Click here to get all of our Indigenous news coverage right in your inbox Frank Vaisvilas is a former Report for America corps member who covers Native American issues in Wisconsin based at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Contact him at fvaisvilas@ or 815-260-2262. Follow him on Twitter at @vaisvilas_frank. This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Harassment against Ojibwe spearfishing continues in northern Wisconsin
