Category Archives: Local News

Museum recognized for helping kids with autism
A state group is highlighting the Building for Kids in downtown Appleton for helping children with autism. The Autism Society of Wisconsin is giving the museum its first community partner designation,...
Feb 11, 2020

Police notice harassment over social media
Unusual increases in harassment, through social media and over the phone, are getting the attention of Fox Crossing police. Officer Dan Wiechman says they received about seven complaints in a week, an...
Feb 11, 2020

Man charged in G.C. road-rage shooting
Prosecutors are charging the suspect in a road-rage shooting by I-41 in Grand Chute. Nineteen-year-old Kaimari Jones of Racine is accused of firing at a car by the College Avenue interchange last week...
Feb 11, 2020
Proposals to help farmers move forward
Lawmakers are moving quickly on a pair of bills cutting taxes for state farmers by nearly $30 million a year. The Assembly's agriculture committee approved them, after Governor Evers called on the Leg...
Feb 11, 2020

GOP set to move on new sex assault kit bill
Assembly Republicans are planning to approve a bill that would create protocols for untested sexual assault kits, with provisions that some Democrats are calling "poison pills." Democratic Attorney Ge...
Feb 11, 2020

Arena owners pay property taxes on time
The owners of the Menominee Nation Arena paid their property taxes on time for the first time. The city received its payment of $113,000 before the January 31st deadline. The arena group was late the ...
Feb 11, 2020

Help for the Friday fish fry
A new Farmory will bring sustainable indoor agriculture to the Green Bay community. The fish hatchery can produce 400,000 fish each year at a time when yellow perch is in short supply. Executive Direc...
Carol Patrizi Feb 11, 2020

Counselors helping after child's death
A six-year-old girl was killed while waiting to get on her bus in Waushara County, counselors are at their school. Deputies say the driver of a truck was trying to pass the bus on the right, while the...
Feb 11, 2020

Council to go over Sawdust District plans
The Oshkosh city council will start going over a proposed new plan for the Sawdust District. City staff put together proposed development areas around Main Street, south of the Fox River. City Manager...
Feb 11, 2020 (Image provided by the city of Oshkosh)

Todd wants to lower property taxes
One of the candidates for Appleton mayor is a businessman. Mark Todd says lowering property taxes would be his top priority. He's in the banking industry, and he believes his experience working with n...
Feb 11, 2020 (Image from the City of Appleton)


