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Johnson tests positive for coronavirus
Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Oshkosh announced over the weekend he caught COVID-19. He says he got tested last Friday, on his way to a fundraising dinner in Mequon that evening. While he was at...
Oct 04, 2020
Brown Co. health agencies issue COVID-19 alert
Brown County public health agencies are joining others in the Fox Valley region to issue a COVID-19 alert. The departments for the county, De Pere, and the Oneida Nation are calling on people to help ...
Oct 04, 2020
IRS sending letters about unclaimed stimulus checks
About 111,000 people in the state still haven’t received their federal stimulus payment from the spring. The IRS is sending letters to their last known address. Individuals can get $1,200. Agenc...
Oct 04, 2020
Pandemic continues to impact fundraisers
More local nonprofits are having to cancel or change fundraising events. Youth Go is a center by the border between Neenah and Menasha. Leaders were planning to hold an outdoor haunted maze event last...
Oct 04, 2020
Police think G.B. shootings connected
Green Bay police believe two shootings on the city’s east side on Saturday could be in retaliation to one last Friday. No one was hurt in any of them. On Saturday afternoon, officers went to Imp...
Oct 04, 2020
Sauk Co. health officer resigning
Frustrations over a lack of leadership are leading a public health officer in southcentral Wisconsin to resign. Tim Lawther wrote in a letter that the virus is being turned into “a political too...
Oct 04, 2020
State has 1,865 new coronavirus cases
For the first time in six days, the state has fewer than 2,000 new confirmed COVID-19 cases. There are 1,865 more cases, after a single-day record 2,892 yesterday. The state is reporting 17.2 percent ...
Oct 04, 2020
State sets single-day COVID-19 case record
For the second time in three days, the state set a single-day record for new confirmed coronavirus cases. The state is reporting 2,892 more cases, up slightly from Thursday’s previous high of 2,...
Oct 03, 2020
Health experts issue emergency COVID-19 alert
The spread of coronavirus is leading public health departments in the region to issue a public health emergency alert. It includes recommendations that people not get together indoors with others from...
Oct 02, 2020
Evers doubts fallout from business list
Governor Evers doubts there would be much fallout from the potential release of the names of businesses with at least two COVID-19 cases. A media outlet filed an open records request for the list of p...
Oct 02, 2020
