Category Archives: Local News
Winnebago Co. considers measure to get medical examiner
The Winnebago County Judiciary and Safety Committee will consider a measure today that would replace the elected Coroner with a hired medical examiner to handle death investigations. The coroner posit...
Sep 09, 2019
Committee holds meeting on future of Oshkosh schools
A committee looking at the future of Oshkosh Schools holds its first public hearing tonight. The committee is made up of parents, community leaders, instructors and students. Deputy Superintendent Dav...
Sep 08, 2019 (Image provided by the Oshkosh Area School District)
Little Oshkosh Playground torn down
What remained of the Little Oshkosh Playground in Menominee Park is gone. Crews have removed the old wooden structure to make way for a new playground. City Manager Mark Rohloff says memorials to thos...
Sep 08, 2019 (Image provided by the city of Oshkosh)
Missing snake found in FdL High School
The principal at Fond du Lac High School believes turning up the heat coaxed a three-foot python out into the open. The snake went missing from its cage over Labor Day weekend. Matthew Steinbarth says...
Sep 08, 2019
Scott Walker talks about son's potential run for congress
Former Governor Scott Walker is talking about his son's possible run for Congress. Matt Walker has not formally announced entering the race for the 5th district seat. But Walker thinks his son would b...
Sep 08, 2019
Baldwin wants expanded background checks for guns
A Madison Democrat wants congress to talk about expanded background checks. U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin says she's a gun owner herself. She says law-abiding citizens should be able to purchase guns. Sh...
Sep 08, 2019
re:TH!NK Addiction Run in Oshkosh is tomorrow
A run in Oshkosh Saturday will help support people recovering with drug and alcohol addictions. It's the sixth annual re:TH!NK Addiction Run and Walk. Organizers expect more than one thousand people a...
Sep 06, 2019
Nestle announces layoffs, includes some local jobs
Nestle foods announce layoffs at four plants in Wisconsin including in Little Chute. 32 workers at the facility along Freedom Road will lose their jobs. The plant itself will remain open. The layoffs ...
Sep 06, 2019
Oshkosh Plan Commission approves senior living building
The Oshkosh Plan Commission approves designs for a large new senior living community on the city's west side. MSP Real Estate is looking to build hundreds of memory care, assisted living, and independ...
Sep 06, 2019 (Image provided by the city of Oshkosh)
State volunteers help victims of Hurricane Dorian
Nearly 40 disaster volunteers from the Wisconsin Red Cross are in the southeast part of the country to help people threatened by Hurricane Dorian. Agency spokesman Justin Kern says they ramped up that...
Sep 06, 2019
