MILWAUKEE — One of Milwaukee’s most beloved dogs has left us. The Milwaukee Brewers announced Thursday that Hank the Ballpark Pup has passed away.

“Hank was truly loved by our family and we are so grateful for the ten years we had with him,” said Brewers Chief Operating Officer Marti Wronski. “Hank seemed to know that he was rescued by the entire Brewers family and he never met a fan – or really any human – he didn’t love. We are heartbroken to be without him but are grateful for the joy he brought to so many and the spotlight he helped shine on animal rescue.”

The legend of Hank began in February of 2014, when he wandered into the Brewers’ Arizona Spring Training complex as a stray.

Hank spent his days at the complex throughout that spring, participating in team activities – everything from workouts on the diamond, to doing meet and greets with fans at games.

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Hank the Ballpark Pup dies

After Spring Training, Hank was adopted by the Wronski family.

“For the past 10 years, he lived a comfortable life at his forever home in Wisconsin, cared for by a loving family,” a news release says.

The Brewers are encouraging donations to the Wisconsin Humane Society or MADACC for those who wish to honor Hank’s life.

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Symone Woolridge is leaving WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) after more than two years as a news anchor “to pursue other opportunities and spend time with her family,” the station reported on its website.

“It’s not about how long you’ve been somewhere or how long you’ve known someone, it’s about how that person or place has made you feel,” Woolridge said in the story on Channel 4’s website. “Milwaukee and TMJ4 has made me feel so loved and cared for and I’m forever grateful.”

Woolridge joined Channel 4 in March 2022 as anchor of the station’s noon and 4 p.m. weekday newscasts. In August of that year, she and Tom Durian were named co-anchors of Channel 4’s weekday morning newscast, as Milwaukee’s NBC affiliate shifted Susan Kim to early evening news anchor slots and former morning co-anchor Vince Vitrano left to host the morning show on WTMJ-AM (620).

Woolridge, an Evanston, Illinois, native who still has family in the Chicago area, came to Milwaukee from WREG-TV in Memphis, Tennessee, where she was the breaking news anchor on that station’s morning newscasts. Before joining WREG in 2018, she worked at stations in Tupelo, Mississippi, and Carterville, Illinois.

According to the story on Channel 4’s website, Woolridge’s last day at the station will be Nov. 8.

MILWAUKEE — Just 25 years old, Gary Trent Jr. has established himself as a reliable double-figure scorer and one of the NBA’s best outside shooters. That the Milwaukee Bucks could sign him to a veteran’s minimum contract this summer stands as one of the biggest steals of free agency.

At 6-foot-5, the former Duke star can play shooting guard and small forward, giving Milwaukee options with its first and second units. Trent Jr.’s career 39 percent accuracy on three-pointers could add even more firepower to a Bucks team that ranked fourth last season in effective field goal percentage.

Here are three benchmarks for Trent Jr. in 2024-25 that could be predictors of success.

Trent Jr. has achieved this benchmark twice in his six NBA seasons, and there are good reasons to think he can do it this year:

Effective three-point shooting spaces the floor and keeps defenses honest. Trent Jr.’s success will make life easier for the Bucks offense.

As much as Milwaukee will need to rely on his perimeter shooting, they also will need Trent Jr. to cover up Lillard’s defensive deficiencies by taking on the tougher guard matchups.

Having gained a reputation as a gambler on defense, Trent Jr. twice averaged better than 1.5 steals in Toronto. Only six players averaged 1.5 or more steals per game last season.

At 6-foot-5 with a 6-foot-9 wingspan, Trent Jr. is lengthy enough to disrupt passing lanes and rack up deflections. He has averaged 1.2 steals per game across his seven-year playing career.

This benchmark will depend on playing time and shot selection.

Trent Jr. twice took 200-plus free throws and made 83% or better, but he also averaged four to six more minutes on court than his career average. Last year while averaging 28 minutes a night — his lowest figure in five seasons — Trent Jr. shot more threes than twos and, as might be expected, fewer than 100 free throws.

So the more reasonable goal could be the free-throw accuracy, which will help.

Since 2017-18, the Bucks have found themselves in the bottom half of the league in team free-throw percentage. The biggest part of that is Giannis, who has averaged 70 percent during his 11-year career.

Free throws made and missed are often the difference in close games. As a career 81.9 percent free-throw shooter, Trent Jr. joins Lillard (92 percent in 2023-24) and Middleton (83.3 percent in 2023-24) as trusted ballhandlers at crunch time.

For his six seasons, Trent Jr. has connected on 83 percent of his free throws twice. It’s doable, but in this offense 200 attempts may be a long shot.