Category Archives: Local News
Name released from motorcycle crash
Officials are releasing the name of the motorcyclist killed in a crash on Appleton's north side last week. The Outagamie County Coroner's office says 35-year-old Anthony Kriescher of Appleton lost con...
Oct 22, 2018
Head-on crash kills 1 man, injures another
A man driving the wrong way on Highway 57 is dead, after a crash Saturday night in the northeast part of Brown County. Sheriff's officials say the 61-year-old man is from Two Rivers. He crashed into a...
Oct 22, 2018
Stylists get together to trim hunger
People in the Fox Cities turned out to trim hunger one haircut at a time yesterday. The fifth annual Trim Hunger Cut-A-Thon went on at the Salon Professional Academy in Appleton. Owner Josif Wittnik s...
Oct 22, 2018
Event teaches about local climate change impact
Community members gathered at the Appleton Public Library yesterday to learn about the local impact of climate change. Jill Mitchler is a group co-leader for the Appleton-Fox Cities chapter of the Cit...
Oct 22, 2018
Political ad anger could motivate people to vote
A local expert says political ads that make voters angry could motivate them to vote. A 2012 study in the Journal of Politics found that online people are more likely to click on ads that make them ma...
Oct 21, 2018
Man dies after officer-involved shooting in Brown Co.
A man in his 20s is dead after an officer-involved shooting at the Brown County Jail. It happened at about 9:15 p.m. Friday night. Green Bay police chief Andrew Smith says the man was pulled over for ...
Oct 21, 2018
Menasha to build new public works facility in one phase
Menasha is looking to build a new public works facility and it's planning to do it all at once. Josh Radomski is the city's public works director. He says they originally looked at doing it in two pha...
Oct 21, 2018 (Image provided by City of Menasha)
Monday is last day to weigh in on Neenah schools
Time is running out for people in the Neenah school district to take a survey on the district's facilities. The deadline is Monday. The school board is looking at different options for the school buil...
Oct 19, 2018 (Image provided by the Neenah Joint School District)
Scouts collect donations for food drive tomorrow
Scouts will start collecting food donations starting tomorrow at eight in the morning. It's the 31st annual Scouting for Food Drive. Kristin Ely-Bluemke is the development director of the Boy Scouts o...
Oct 19, 2018
Walker accuses Evers of plagiarism
Governor Walker is accusing his Democratic challenger Tony Evers of plagiarizing material that was part of his state budget request for education. Evers is the state superintendent of schools and he's...
Oct 19, 2018
