Author Archives: Terry Kovarik
Green Bay Packers Foundation benefits Brown County non-profits
GREEN BAY, WI -- Some non-profit organizations benefit from one-point-35 million dollars in grants from the Green Bay Packers Foundation. The impact grants, with one exception, were awarded to non-pro...
Aug 09, 2022 Image: Green Bay Packers
AASD approves referendum question for November 8 ballot
APPLETON, WI. -- The Appleton Area School District approves a resolution on a referendum for a 129 point-eight million dollar bonding request. Those funds would be used for district-wide updates to cl...
Aug 09, 2022 (Image provided by Appleton Area School District)
One killed, three seriously injured in crash near New London
NEW LONDON, WI -- One person is killed and four others are seriously injured in a three vehicle crash on Highway 45 near New London. the New London Police Department says a southbound pickup truck app...
Aug 06, 2022
Life in prison for 86-year-old man for wife's 1975 murder
STURGEON BAY, WI -- It's life in prison for a former Door County man convicted of killing his wife in 1975. 86-year-old Richard Pierce received that sentence after being found guilty in the death of C...
Aug 05, 2022 Richard Pierce participates in his trial at the Door County Courthouse in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. (WBAY)
Green Bay murder suspect charged in Alabama killing
HELENA, AL. -- A Green Bay murder suspect is now charged in another killing in Alabama. 23-year-old Caleb Anderson is now linked to the death of 52-year-old Dwight Dixon of Flomaton, Alabama. Police i...
Aug 05, 2022
Appleton moves ahead with Kort Peace Park proposal from Trout Museum of Art
APPLETON, WI -- The City of Appleton will talk further with the Trout Museum of Art's Board of Directors on a proposal to build a new museum in the Elle Kort Peace Park. Appleton Common Council Tuesda...
Aug 05, 2022 Trout Museum of Art logo (Trout Museum of Art)
Appleton placing legal marijuana referendum on November 8 ballot
APPLETON, WI -- Appleton moves forward on an advisory referendum on the legalization, regulation and taxation of recreational marijuana. On a 9-to-4 vote Wednesday, the Appleton Common Council approve...
Aug 04, 2022
Appleton Police respond facsimile gun call at Erb Pool
APPLETON, WI -- A report of a person with a handgun near Erb Pool in Appleton turns out to be a case of three juveniles with facsimile guns. The call came in just before 4:00 PM Thursday from a pool w...
Aug 04, 2022 (Image provided by the Appleton Police Department)
Suspect and vehicle sought in suspicious death in Green Bay
GREEN BAY, WI -- Green Bay Police and Michigan State troopers at the Iron Mountain post are searching for a suspect in a suspicious death in Green Bay's east side. Police were dispatched to a location...
Aug 02, 2022 Green Bay Police investigate a suspicious death at 1320 Packerland Drive. Suspect believed to have taken victim's 2013 Ford Fiesta toward Michigan's Upper Peninsula (WBAY photo)
Mom honors late son's legacy at EAA Airventure Young Eagles gathering
OSHKOSH, WI -- Aviation was a way of life for Joseph Ermel. At 16, he earned his pilot license through the EAA Young Eagles program. Last October, Ermel was killed in a motorcycle crash while attendin...
Jul 29, 2022 Aymee Zimmerman shares her son Joseph Ermel's legacy at EAA Airventure (Photo by Terry Kovarik, WHBY)
