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The Brillion News UPDATE: The missing student was found unharmed, the Brillion Police Department stated shortly after 1 p.m. BRILLION - The Brillion Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding a missing fourth grade student from Brillion Elementary School. The boy left the school property wearing light grey pants and a light grey short, approximately four feet tall, with short blonde hair, and is 9/10-years-old. He was last seen walking west on Tesch Street i

By David Nordby The Brillion News BRILLION – Jeff Capelle said he loved every second of being the Brillion girls basketball coach, but it’s time to step away from the role. “It is a difficult decision,” Capelle said. “With my two boys really busy, they’re involved with many things, I just felt this was the right time to step down and be able to focus more energy on them.” Capelle recently completed his 15th season as head coach, an era that included 222 wins. Both his t

By David Nordby The Brillion News BRILLION – Electorates in the Brillion School District voted against the operational referendum in Tuesday’s spring election. The unofficial count was 1,064 (56.5%) against the referendum and 816 in favor of it. The numbers will become official once votes are canvassed. Had it passed, the district would have been authorized to exceed the revenue limit by $2.275 million per year for the next three school years from 2026 to 2029. Voters in th

By David Nordby The Brillion News MADISON – 1946 Reedsville Panthers, meet the 2026 group that lived up to the history that you made 80 years ago. The Panthers are bringing a gold ball home to Reedsville after outlasting Southwestern 56-48 in Saturday’s WIAA Division 5 state championship game at the Kohl Center in Madison. “I told them they’re going to be state champions forever. Nobody can ever take that away from them. It had been 80 years in the making in Reedsville. Pre

By David Nordby The Brillion News MADISON – The collective heart rate of Reedsville was working its way back down late Friday morning. Regardless of what happens in the Division 5 state championship game on Saturday, everyone will remember watching the Panthers erase a nine-point deficit with 5:41 left on their way to a 75-72 win over Sheboygan Lutheran in the state semifinal at the Kohl Center in Madison. With force down the lane that Panthers’ fans have seen so many times

The Brillion News HILBERT - Nathan Wesener will replace the retiring Tony Sweere as the Hilbert Public Schools superintendent. The move was officially approved by the Hilbert School Board on Tuesday night. Wesener, a 2003 Hilbert High School graduate, has served as a special education teacher and is currently the middle/high school principal. "I'm very excited. I think it's a great next chapter from where I'm at and where I come from," Wesener told the newspaper on Thursday.