Category Archives: Local News
State offers bigger loans to Kenosha businesses
The state is offering more money, through no-interest loans, to businesses that were damaged or destroyed in Kenosha. Governor Evers is adding another $3 million, after initially setting aside $1 mill...
Sep 23, 2020
Packers provide final COVID-19 fund grants
The Green Bay Packers are handing out the final five Brown County grants from a special COVID-19 Community Relief Fund. The team sent $1 million to 58 groups, and another $500,000 to organizations in ...
Sep 23, 2020 Survey shows majority in favor of eliminating Lambeau Field Stadium District Board
Local hospitals set records for COVID-19 patients
Administrators at the largest hospitals in the Fox Cities report they're seeing record numbers of COVID-19 patients right now. Dr. Tom Nichols is the vice president of medical affairs at Ascension's S...
Sep 23, 2020
State prepares for distributing vaccine
State health officials are already planning for the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine. Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems-Van Dijk says they're working on a database of p...
Sep 23, 2020
State has most new COVID-19 cases in 4 days
There are 1,762 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin, and that's the most in four days. The state is reporting 13.1 percent of tests came back positive. That's below the seven-day average of 16.9...
Sep 23, 2020
Thompson thinks COVID-19 prevention steps are working
Six COVID-19 hotspots in Wisconsin share a common thing -- a UW System campus. System President Tommy Thompson says their work to prevent the spread at the schools is starting to pay off. While he adm...
Sep 23, 2020 (Image provided by UW System)
Four facing federal charges for FdL gun buys
A federal grand jury is indicting four Fond du Lac men accused of using drug addicts to buy them guns. Jonathan Griffin, Jason Spinks, Shakie Davis, and Treon Dennis are facing counts of conspiracy, a...
Sep 23, 2020
Local companies advance in 'Coolest Thing' contest
Five companies from the Fox Valley area made it to the second round of the "Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin" contest. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce spokesman Nick Novak says they had nearly 150...
Sep 23, 2020
Sentence upheld in scrap car fraud case
A state appeals court is upholding the 11-year prison sentence for a Neenah man convicted of defrauding a scrap metal company. The judges rejected arguments from Sterling Kienbaum that his state sente...
Sep 23, 2020
Name released of elderly Princeton fire victim
The elderly woman killed in a house fire in Princeton was 92-year-old Joyce Des Jardins. Green Lake County Sheriff's deputies say she was trapped inside the home along Main Street last Saturday mornin...
Sep 23, 2020
