Category Archives: Local News
FVTC hosting open house
Fox Valley Technical College is holding its annual open house at its Appleton and Oshkosh area locations today. Spokesman Chris Jossart says it's a chance for prospective students to check out their d...
Oct 02, 2018
City wants to hear about rental inspections
The city of Oshkosh is considering some changes to its rental housing inspection program, and people can have a say tonight. There's a community meeting at 6 p.m. at City Hall. Community Development D...
Oct 02, 2018 (Image provided by the city of Oshkosh)
Police see more burglaries by UW-Osh
Oshkosh police say they've now had nine burglaries and three attempted break-ins in the neighborhood around the UW-Oshkosh campus. They say they started about three weeks ago. They're asking people to...
Oct 02, 2018 (Image from the Oshkosh Police Department)
Lawmakers plan K-C vote after election
Lawmakers are planning to hold a vote on the Kimberly-Clark incentives after the election. Governor Walker issued a statement today, saying the Senate will return on Monday, November 12 to take up a p...
Oct 02, 2018
Police: Not many incidents at Appleton Octoberfest
Appleton police say Octoberfest in Appleton over the weekend went smoothly. Captain Polly Olson says there was one domestic incident and two people were given tickets for marijuana. She says the bigge...
Oct 01, 2018
New organization for the homeless named Pillars
Organizers got together in Appleton today to unveil the new name of the merger between three housing organizations. Joe Mauthe is the executive director of the Housing Partnership of the Fox Cities. H...
Oct 01, 2018
Woman killed in crash lost husband in crash this year
A woman killed in last week's crash on Highway 76 between Oshkosh and Neenah lost her husband in an accident just six months earlier. 88-year-old Mavis Wolff was riding with her 88-year-old husband Ro...
Oct 01, 2018
Combined Locks wins national award for plants, pride
A local community is receiving a national award from a group that judges places on their plants and civic pride. Combined Locks beat out 250 communities to receive the top honor for Overall Impression...
Oct 01, 2018
Brown Co. proposed budget lowest in a decade
The proposed budget for Brown County next year includes the lowest property tax rate in a decade. County Executive Troy Streckenbach says a big reason for that is the county's half-cent sales tax. He ...
Oct 01, 2018
Crews hope to see less traffic issues on Hwy. 10-441
Now that work is done on the biggest part of the Highway 10-441 project emergency crews hope they won't have to deal with as many traffic issues. During construction of the I-41 interchange and the br...
Oct 01, 2018
