Category Archives: Local News
Oshkosh leaders say no to fee
The Oshkosh Common Council narrowly defeats a measure that would have set a new transportation utility fee next year. The five to four vote against the monthly fee means that property owners will have...
Jul 24, 2019 (Image provided by the City of Oshkosh)
Man stabbed in Two Rivers
Two Rivers police say a man has life threatening injuries after a stabbing. Officers were called to a home on the south side around 1 p.m. yesterday for a report of a fight. They found the 19-year-old...
Jul 24, 2019
Governor Evers visits Appleton to look at storm damage
Governor Evers checked out storm damage in Appleton Tuesday afternoon. He walked around a north side neighborhood to talk with people and see what city crews are doing. Mayor Tim Hanna joined the gove...
Jul 23, 2019 (Image: Office of the Governor)
911 dispatchers praised for work during storms
The Waupaca County Sheriff's Department is praising 911 dispatchers for remaining calm and keeping people safe during the weekend storms. Captain Shane Bazile says they got over 1,200 calls between Fr...
Jul 23, 2019
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary helps animals after storm
The Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary is trying to help wild animals hurt during the recent storms. Curator Lori Bankson says people brought in over 150 animals over three days. They included hawks and squ...
Jul 23, 2019
Sculpture honoring Houdini could be back on display
A sculpture honoring Harry Houdini might be back on display in Appleton. The city is proposing to place "Metamorphosis" along Lawe Street in the flats next to the future Lawe Street trestle bridge. De...
Jul 23, 2019 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Wisconsin brothers missing on Missouri business trip
Police are looking for two brothers from northeast Wisconsin reported missing while on a business trip to Missouri. 35-year-old Nick Diemel and 24-year-old Justin Diemel own Diemel's Livestock in sout...
Jul 23, 2019 (Photo compilation provided by family)
Company fixes Oneida woman's driveway after scam
An Oneida woman is getting a new driveway after getting scammed out of about $9,000 in June. Joyce Diestler says a company called Asphalt Paving offered to fix her old driveway. But she says workers d...
Jul 23, 2019
Man killed by fallen tree in Oconto Co.
A 67-year-old man died, after he was hurt while trying to remove a fallen tree in Oconto County. Sheriff's deputies say John Nichols had a chain attached to the tree, and a four-wheeler, last Friday n...
Jul 23, 2019 Oconto County Sheriff's Office logo (Image courtesy Oconto Co. Sheriff's Office)
EAA chair looks back on his first AirVenture
No one forgets there first EAA AirVenture, and that goes for Chair Jack Pelton too. Pelton says he never saw anything like it, with so many "crazy aviation people all in one place." He says the variet...
Jul 23, 2019
