Category Archives: Local News
Career fair expands to high school students
An annual career fair that targets middle school students is adding a second day for high schoolers. The Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce is hosting the expo called Your Future Live! It will be at the F...
Feb 22, 2018
Talk of compromise over bar's patio music
The owner of a bar in downtown Appleton says she'll work on a compromise over the issue of music on her outdoor patio. People packed the city council chambers for Wednesday night's meeting on the requ...
Feb 21, 2018 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Boyfriend 'devastated, shocked' by VanderHeyden's murder
The boyfriend of a 31-year-old murder victim is denying that he had anything to do with it. Nicole VanderHeyden of Ledgeview was found dead in May of 2016. Forty-year-old George Burch is on trial, cha...
Feb 21, 2018
Proposal would shut down Lincoln Hills by 2021
A proposal to close the state's troubled youth prison took a step forward. The Assembly signed off on the bipartisan bill unanimously today. It calls for the state to shut down Lincoln Hills by 2021 a...
Feb 21, 2018
Bill adds more prosecutors around state
There's a proposal to add more prosecutors around the state and some counties in the area would benefit. Republican Rep. John Nygren of Marinette hopes to help district attorneys offices deal with sta...
Feb 21, 2018
DOT will lay out Hwy. 55 project plans in Kaukauna
Construction on a mile stretch of Highway 55 in Kaukauna starts in the middle of next month, and DOT officials will talk with the community about the project today. The work will be between the I-41 i...
Feb 21, 2018
Neenah students make pitches in 'Shark Tank' class
Some students at Neenah High School will start making their pitches for a class that's the first of its kind in the state. It's modeled after the TV show "Shark Tank," where innovators try to get fund...
Feb 21, 2018 (Image provided by the Neenah Joint School District)
Proposal would add prosecutors in 2019
A proposal from Republicans would add more than 50 prosecutors across the state to deal with a shortfall of staff in district attorneys offices. Rep. John Nygren of Marinette introduced the bill this ...
Feb 21, 2018
Victim's boyfriend testifying in murder trial
A 31-year-old murder victim's boyfriend is testifying today in a Brown County trial. Doug Detrie actually spent a couple of weeks in jail after Nicole VanderHeyden of Ledgeview was found dead. He was ...
Feb 21, 2018
'An American in Paris' playing in Appleton
A Tony Award winning musical opened last night in downtown Appleton. "An American in Paris" is at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center through Sunday. Spokeswoman Trisha Witt says it follows two peop...
Feb 21, 2018
