Category Archives: Local News

Expo center could bring return visitors
Stakeholders from the tourism industry will be at the Fox Cities Exhibition Center today and tomorrow, and a business leader hopes the new venue will help boost tourism in the area. Jennifer Stephany ...
Mar 12, 2018 (Image provided by Appleton Downtown Incorporated)

Award-winning musician to teach Oshkosh students
A co-founder of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is coming to Oshkosh this week to work with nearly 500 music students. Yukiko Grine is the orchestra teacher at Oshkosh North and West high schools. She sa...
Mar 11, 2018 (Image provided by the Oshkosh Area School District)

Girl Scout delivers cookies to cancer patients
A local Girl Scout continued her tradition of delivering Girl Scout Cookies to cancer patients. Eleven-year-old Katelyn Hoelzel brought more than 70 boxes to Fox Valley Hematology and Oncology on Appl...
Mar 09, 2018

Search starts for new Oshkosh fire chief
The search for a new fire chief in Oshkosh is getting underway. The police and fire commission is now accepting applications, and the deadline is April 1. Members hope to have the department's next le...
Mar 09, 2018

Flatoff convicted of all charges in standoff
Jurors found a 48-year-old man guilty of all 14 charges for a deadly standoff in downtown Neenah. Now that Brian Flatoff was convicted, there will be a second phase of the trial to determine if he was...
Carol Patrizi Mar 09, 2018
Husband now charged in De Pere abuse case
Brown County prosecutors are now charging the father of three adopted children with abusing them for years. Fifty-two-year-old Donald Windey of De Pere faces a series of counts of child abuse and negl...
Mar 09, 2018

Board to vote on next Oshkosh North leader
The principal of an elementary school in Oshkosh could be the next leader of Oshkosh North High School. Superintendent Stan Mack is recommending Read Elementary Principal Jacquelyn Kiffmeyer for the j...
Mar 09, 2018

Johnson thought legal drinking age is 18
After initially thinking the legal drinking age was still 18, a Republican U.S. Senator says he would support lowering it from 21. Sen. Ron Johnson of Oshkosh was on a radio show that's based in the M...
Mar 09, 2018

Deputy honored for saving woman's life
A Calumet County Sheriff's deputy is being honored for saving a woman's life, after she fell and severed an artery. Linda Kieso is a cashier at Dick's Family Foods in Sherwood, and she was in the park...
Mar 09, 2018

Tourism industry to descend on Appleton
About 1,000 people from the tourism industry will be heading to downtown Appleton over the weekend for a statewide convention. The Governor's Conference on Tourism will be at the Fox Cities Exhibition...
Mar 09, 2018 (Photo from WHBY archives)



