Tag Archives: Local News

New recycling trucks coming in Outagamie Co.
Outagamie County is extending a contract with its recycling pickup company, and new trucks will be hitting the roads soon. County Recycling and Resource Recovery Administrator Joanne Gorski says Orion...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

Halloween party planned in Kaukauna
There will be a two-day Halloween party in Kaukauna this year. Organizer Jason Lipsky says they’re holding Electric City Halloween on Friday, October 25th and Saturday, October 26th. He says the...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

Deaths of 3 people in Kiel ruled murder-suicide
The Manitowoc County coroner is ruling that the deaths of three people in Kiel, in May, was a murder-suicide. Investigators say 69-year-old Jack Schigur shot his 50-year-old girlfriend, Julie Wood, an...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

Lawmakers release suicide hotline funding
A suicide prevention hotline will now receive $110,000 in state funding. Majority Republicans on the Legislature’s budget committee are formally releasing the money. It was included in the state...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

Dassey’s lawyers ask for his release
Lawyers for Brendan Dassey want Governor Evers to pardon the convicted murderer and release him from prison. Attorney Laura Nirider says Dassey was a 16-year-old special needs student when he confesse...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

Streckenbach in favor of smart road technology
Brown County Executive Troy Streckenbach wants to be ready for new technology that could make winter driving easier. He says road sensory networks or smart roads could make a big impact when crews dec...
Carol Patrizi Oct 02, 2019

Champion Center could open next month
The clock is ticking before a major regional youth sports facility will be ready in the Fox Cities. Construction on the Community First Champion Center in Grand Chute started a little over a year ago....
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

Pillars marks 1st yr as merged group
A group that’s fighting homelessness in the Fox Cities is celebrating its first year working together. Pillars was created by the merger of three organizations. Director of Community Engagement ...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

G.B. sets yearly precipitation record
There are still three months to go in 2019, and the City of Green Bay already broke the record for the most precipitation in a year. Yesterday’s rain put the total over the previous record of 39...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019

More students walking to school
While the weather might make it a bit wet, there’s a push to get kids to use their own two feet to get to school today. It’s International Walk to School Day. Melissa Kraemer Badtke of the...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 02, 2019




