Category Archives: Local News
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 9, 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...
Mar 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 2018 (Photo from WHBY archives)
UW-Osh students hosting 'Free School'
Some UW-Oshkosh students will become teachers for a day tomorrow, for an event called UWO Free School. Professor Laura Hartman teaches environmental studies, and she worked with a campus environment g...
Mar 9, 2018
Appleton could have quiet zone later this year
If all goes as planned regular train whistles would be a thing of the past in Appleton later this year. City Public Works Director Paula Vandehey says they're going to make the necessary improvements ...
Mar 9, 2018 (Image from the City of Appleton)
Appleton police stress education with sexting
Some local police departments are creating their own laws for certain sexting cases but Appleton police are using a different solution. Lieutenant Mike Frisch is the coordinator of the department's sc...
Mar 9, 2018
