Category Archives: Local News
Group holding drive-thru food pantry events
Feeding America Eastern Wisconsin is taking its distribution program directly to people in need. Usually, the group collects food for pantries to hand out across the region, but during the pandemic wo...
May 28, 2020
Potato program to help pantries
Organizers of a potato growing program in Brown County are giving gardeners seed potatoes, while also helping local food pantries. County Executive Troy Streckenbach helped hand out nearly 1,200 of th...
May 28, 2020
Doctor warns of tick season
People itching to get back outside in Wisconsin will face a threat besides coronavirus. It's the peak tick season. Prevea Health Dr. Amy Romandine-Kratz recommends wearing long sleeves and pants, in w...
May 28, 2020
Firefighters get called to own station for truck fire
The Vandenbroek-Kaukauna department's main fire engine caught fire at the station along Highway JJ yesterday afternoon. Fire Chief Ron Young says the call came in as a vehicle fire in a building, and ...
May 28, 2020
2 Appleton men arrested in child porn cases
Appleton police arrested two men in separate child pornography investigations. Twenty-five-year-old Ian Schuh and 39-year-old Charles Moon were taken into custody. Police say tips from the National Ce...
May 28, 2020
Wisconsin State Fair canceled
There won't be a Wisconsin State Fair in the Milwaukee area this summer. The chair of the fair board is canceling, because of the pandemic. It's the first time since 1945 that the 169-year-old event w...
May 28, 2020
Growing hospital numbers concern DHS
State health officials are concerned they're seeing more people in hospitals with coronavirus. Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm says it's not at a point where hospitals are implemen...
May 28, 2020
Catholic Diocese to start holding church services
The Green Bay Catholic Diocese plans to start bringing people back to church this weekend. Churches will be holding communion service during the first phase of the reopening plan. Diocesan Vicar Rev. ...
May 28, 2020
Federal funding heading to health care providers
The state plans to use $10 million in federal stimulus funding to help health care providers that are treating the most under-served populations. Community health centers, and free or low-cost clinics...
May 28, 2020
Broadway District night markets canceled
The night markets in Green Bay's Broadway District are canceled this summer. There were four of them planned on Saturdays, at different locations in the district.
May 28, 2020
