Category Archives: Local News
Appleton seeing good signs under new truancy system
Appleton school administrators are seeing some positive signs over the first several months of the district's new truancy system. Assistant Superintendent Polly Vanden Boogard says staffers are learni...
Jan 28, 2020 (Image provided by Appleton Area School District)
Clayton, Fox Crossing reach water, sewer deal
The Town of Clayton will get its water and sewer services from Fox Crossing. The two communities worked out a deal, two years after Clayton initially signed one with Appleton. The town will pay Fox Cr...
Jan 28, 2020
Oshkosh city website, email hit by computer virus
The City of Oshkosh's website and email system aren't working because of a computer virus. City spokeswoman Emily Springstroh says they're trying to figure out how the virus got into their internal sy...
Jan 28, 2020 (Image provided by the city of Oshkosh)
Vos opens special session on rural areas, dairy
Lawmakers are starting to work on proposals to help rural areas and dairy farmers. Majority Republicans in the Legislature opened a special session on the issues today. Governor Evers announced severa...
Jan 28, 2020
Man accused of running from police is out on bail
The Appleton man accused of running from police, and trying to grab an officer's gun, is out on bond. Twenty-six-year-old Deandre Rembert is facing three felony charges after he was arrested last Thur...
Jan 28, 2020
Dog adopted after almost 2 yrs at shelter
A dog that spent almost two years at the Fox Valley Humane Association now has a home. Jax is a nearly three-year-old pit bull. The humane association posted about him on Facebook on January 6th, and ...
Jan 28, 2020
Man arrested for driving drunk with children in his car
A 28-year-old Manitowoc man is under arrest for driving drunk with two children in his car. State Patrol pulled over Dion Cook on I-43 North, south of Manitowoc, around 8 p.m. A trooper smelled mariju...
Jan 28, 2020
911 dispatcher helps save Green Bay woman
A Green Bay woman is safe after being held captive in the Dominican Republic since October. Brown County 911 supervisor Tracy Ertl says the woman called the non-emergency line on Sunday afternoon afte...
Jan 28, 2020
27% of high school students were habitually truant
More than 25 percent of students in Appleton high schools reached the district's standard for habitual truancy in the first semester. School climate coordinator Sheree Garvey says it takes five unexcu...
Jan 28, 2020 (Image provided by Appleton Area School District)
Sculpture could be moved to private property
A controversial sculpture in Appleton could be moved to private property. Alex Schultz of Sculpture Valley says that's his intent for The Collective. The piece of art is on the west end of the College...
Jan 27, 2020
