Category Archives: Local News
Concerns about a warming shelter in Oshkosh
Oshkosh city officials are concerned about where a day by day warming shelter may be placed. For the past eight years the shelter has been located in the basement of a former school at Most Blessed Sa...
Jul 25, 2018 (Image provided by the City of Oshkosh)
DNR hosts meeting about Lake Poygan restoration
There's an informational meeting tonight in Oshkosh about the Lake Poygan habitat restoration project. DNR wildlife biologist Rachel Brookins says they put a wall at the mouth of the Wolf River. She s...
Jul 25, 2018 (Image from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
Children's Parade in Appleton is tonight
The 10th annual kids day parade is happening tonight in downtown Appleton. It's hosted by the Building for Kids Children's Museum. Spokeswoman Katy Compton says they're starting at Houdini Plaza and g...
Jul 25, 2018
Senator Baldwin asks for assistance for farmers
Democratic state Senator Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Tuesday asking for assistance for state farmers effected by tariffs. The Trump Administration plans to give a...
Jul 24, 2018
Local schools team up with non-profit for mental health
A local school district and a local non-profit are teaming up to help students with mental health needs. The Oshkosh school district is getting a $75,000 grant for this upcoming school year to expand ...
Jul 24, 2018 (Image provided by the Oshkosh Area School District)
K-C expected to reach out to state for incentive package
A paper company set to close in the Fox Cities taking 600 jobs is getting ready to ask the state for help. Kimberly Clark and members of United Steelworkers local 2-482 reached a collective bargaining...
Jul 24, 2018
'A Salute to the Tuskegee Airmen' on display at EAA
A youth cadet from the Commemorative Air Force out of Florida is at EAA AirVenture today to present his award-winning exhibit "A Salute to the Tuskegee Airmen" to a Tuskegee pilot who few during World...
Jul 24, 2018
More than 60 air traffic controllers at EAA
More than 60 air traffic controllers are working at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh this year. Dan Carrico works at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. He says they're operate under special r...
Jul 23, 2018
Northeast Wisconsin spared from mosquitos
Biologists say it's a bad summer for mosquitoes in the state but local experts say northeast Wisconsin has been average. Karissa Singleton is an infection preventionist at Bellin Health. She says mosq...
Jul 23, 2018
2 earthquakes confirmed in Waupaca Co.
There were two confirmed earthquakes in Waupaca County this month. The United States Geological Survey says one on July 7th had a magnitude of 1.3 and another on July 15th was a 1.5. Officials say peo...
Jul 23, 2018
