Cooperative Extension has new regional director

UW System’s Cooperative Extension has a new regional director. Gerald Correthers assumes his new duties Friday, March 16. Correthers comes to Green Bay from the University of Illinois Extension, where he served as the Northwest Regional director since 1993. Prior to that, he worked for Michigan State University Extension as the associate regional director in the Upper Peninsula. The Cooperative Extension East-Metro Regional Office is located on the 7th floor of the Cofrin Library.

March 16 also marks the official formation of the 17-county East-Metro region, which combines the counties of the former Eastern District and Quad Counties, bordering Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan corridor.