Category Archives: Local News
Jurors deliberate in Kachinsky trial
Jurors in the trial of a suspended Fox Crossing judge will continue to deliberate today. 65-year-old Len Kachinsky is facing a felony charge for stalking. Prosecutors say Kachinsky's court clerk filed...
Dec 10, 2018
Evers still hopeful for veto of lame-duck bills
Governor-elect Tony Evers is still pushing for a veto on bills that passes during last weeks lame-duck session that would limit his power in office. Evers says the state wouldn't be seeing the measure...
Dec 9, 2018
Faith Technologies to build new Little Chute location
A local company is building a new location along I-41 in Little Chute. Faith Technologies plans to start construction on a 200,000 square foot facility to manufacture green energy products. Village Ad...
Dec 9, 2018
75% of former Kimberly paper mill site spoken for
Two years after the village of Kimberly bought the former paper mill site about 75 percent of the land is spoken for. That includes five apartment buildings on the east end that the village board appr...
Dec 9, 2018
Site set for substation in downtown Appleton
A new electric substation will be going up in downtown Appleton. We Energies plans to build it near College Avenue, in the 100 block of N. State Street. The site is currently a parking lot, just north...
Dec 7, 2018 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Program that helps women looking for 2nd group
The Women's Fund for the Fox Valley Region is looking for more young women without children to learn about financial and career planning. The nonprofit that works to help women and girls started a pro...
Dec 7, 2018
Prine to play at PAC
A longtime singer-songwriter will be playing in downtown Appleton next spring. The Fox Cities Performing Arts Center announced that John Prine will hold a concert on May 24th. Tickets go on sale next ...
Dec 7, 2018
Walker still has hopes for K-C plant
Governor Walker still hopes to keep a Kimberly-Clark plant open in the Fox Cities. He tweeted this morning he's trying to figure other ways, after there wasn't enough support in the Senate for an ince...
Dec 7, 2018
One of the 'Monfils 6' to get out on parole
One of the six men convicted in the murder of Tom Monfils at a Green Bay paper mill in 1992 will be released on parole. Fifty-four-year-old Michael Hirn will have spent almost 24 years behind bars. Th...
Dec 7, 2018
Colorado killer of pregnant wife, kids moved to Wis. prison
The Colorado man convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two children is in a Wisconsin prison. Thirty-three-year-old Christopher Watts was moved from Colorado after he received five life sentences...
Dec 7, 2018
