MONDAY MOANIN PART DEUX aka END OF AN ERA

FOX 11 Investigates follow up: Hotel manager says Packers have purchased Road Star Inn

By Robert Hornacek Published: January 22, 2015, 3:41 pm Updated: January 22, 2015, 9:32 pm

ASHWAUBENON – The general manager of the Road Star Inn tells FOX 11 Investigates the Green Bay Packers have purchased the hotel near Lambeau Field.

The Road Star Inn near Lambeau Field in Ashwaubenon, Jan. 22, 2015. (WLUK/Robert Hornacek)

Andrew Schroepfer says employees at the hotel were informed of the sale this week. Schroepfer says the hotel will close in approximately one month.

“We all knew it was going to happen,” Schroepfer said.

With this sale, the Packers now own 24 properties west of the stadium including all of the properties in the area from Ridge Road to Marlee Lane and from Lombardi Avenue to Brookwood Drive.
A Packers spokesman declined to comment on the hotel property.

FOX 11 checked with the Brown County Register of Deeds office but it does not have any paperwork filed yet regarding a sale of the hotel property. Land records show the hotel and property are valued at $1.365 million.

The Packers have torn down several buildings in the area in recent months, including the former Kmart store. The Packers have not announced specific plans for the area yet.


IN HAPPIER NEWS

CMU names Kyle Nystrom interim head football coach

By Brian Manzullo, Detroit Free Press 8:56 a.m. EST January 26, 2015

Nystrom had been on Dan Enos' staff since 2010 as special teams coordinator, linebackers coach

Central Michigan football against Syracuse.(Photo: USA Today Sports)

           

Central Michigan's head football coaching search is underway but, for now, the Chippewas have an interim.

They named special teams coordinator and linebackers coach Kyle Nystrom as interim head coach this morning.

Nystrom fills in for Dan Enos, who left CMU to become offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Arkansas earlier this week.

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Possible CMU coaching candidates include Hoke, Azzanni

When Enos took the CMU job in 2010, he brought Nystrom in to his coaching staff as an associate head coach. Before that, Nystrom was an assistant at a number of stops, including Northern Michigan (1988), Western Michigan (1989-2001), TCU (2002-04), Depauw (2005), North Dakota State (2006-08) and Fort Hays State (2009).

Nystrom was a student assistant at Michigan State under George Perles in 1983 and graduated at MSU in 1988 with a degree in political science/criminal justice.