Category Archives: Local News
UWO testing dorm sewage for COVID-19
Sewage could play a role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 on the UW-Oshkosh campus. The school's Environmental Research and Innovation Center will test wastewater samples from dorms for the presen...
Sep 18, 2020 (Image provided by UW-Oshkosh)
State shatters COVID-19 case record again
For the second-straight day, the state shattered the previous record for confirmed coronavirus cases. There are 2,533 more cases, up from yesterday's record of 2,034. The state is reporting 19.3 perce...
Sep 18, 2020
Mail slowdown concerns some election officials
Some state elections officials are worried that slowdowns in mail delivery will keep absentee ballots from getting to clerks offices in time, even if they were sent by the required deadline. Elections...
Sep 18, 2020
Voter helpline expands to Appleton area
People needing help casting an absentee ballot can get it by making a phone call. The League of Women Voters set up a helpline in the Madison area, and it's expanding into the Appleton area. Co-Direct...
Sep 18, 2020
Oshkosh recouping legal fees from arena
Oshkosh property taxpayers won't be on the hook for legal fees connected to the bankruptcy of the Menominee Nation Arena. City Manager Mark Rohloff says Fox Valley Pro Basketball will cover the city's...
Sep 18, 2020 (Image provided by the city of Oshkosh)
Clerks in Outagamie Co. look for poll workers
Communities around Outagamie County are trying to find poll workers for the November 3rd election. The county clerk's office is asking people at low risk for coronavirus, and with family members at lo...
Sep 18, 2020
DNR asking deer hunters to keep online diary
Deer hunters around Wisconsin are getting emails from the DNR, asking them to track what happens this fall. The agency plans to reach out to more than 130,000 of them, for what would be its largest su...
Sep 18, 2020 (Image from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)
Pres. Trump campaigns in Mosinee
President Trump made his fifth visit to Wisconsin yesterday. He held a rally in Mosinee, in the central part of the state. He's hoping to boost enthusiasm among rural Wisconsin voters, looking to repe...
Sep 18, 2020
Neenah High School coping with student's death
Counselors will be available at Neenah High School again today, after a student was killed yesterday. Neenah police say the boy was a pedestrian, and he was hit by a car at the corner of Winneconne Av...
Sep 18, 2020 (Image provided by the Neenah Joint School District)
YMCA celebrates Greenville child care addition
The expanded child care center at the YMCA's Fox West location in Greenville is up-and-running. Donors and staff got together last night for a ribbon-cutting ceremony, but it actually opened in June. ...
Sep 18, 2020
