Beloit Daily News general manager Kim Boreen is leaving the newspaper after 14 years. She will be moving to her new home in Glasgow, Kentucky, at the end of April, according to the announcement. Boreen, who started working as an inside sales representative at the Daily News in 2010, was named sales manager in 2018. Before joining the newspaper, she worked at FedEx/Kinkos for 19 years.

Robert Ireland, director of business development for Adams Publishing Group – Southern Wisconsin, will serve as the new general manager.

Ashlie Fanetti, who has spent the last two years reporting on arts and entertainment for the (Eau Claire) Leader-Telegram, has joined the Bloomer Advance as a reporter, copy editor and page designer. A native of Bloomer, she previously worked as a student intern at the paper.

In 2021, Fanetti earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from UW-Eau Claire, where she served as managing editor of the student publication, The Spectator, and spent a year as a professor’s assistant in the journalism and communications department.