Tag Archives: Winnebago County
Woman arrested for chase in stolen car
A Milwaukee woman led Fond du Lac County deputies on a high-speed chase that ends in a crash. The 18-year-old is accused of stealing a car in Winnebago County yesterday, and she was spotted on I-41 la...
May 11, 2020
Officer cleared in Oshkosh West High shooting
Winnebago County's top prosecutor is clearing an Oshkosh school police officer of any wrongdoing in a shooting at West High School. The state justice department investigated the shooting of student Gr...
May 11, 2020 (Image from the Oshkosh Police Department)
Testing site opens today at FVTC
Today is the first day for coronavirus testing at the first large drive-up site in the Fox Valley. It's set up at Fox Valley Technical College in Grand Chute. Mary Dorn of Outagamie County Public Heal...
May 11, 2020
FVTC to host community testing site
The first community testing site in the Fox Cities will open next week on the main Fox Valley Technical College campus in Grand Chute. Outagamie County Emergency Management Director Lisa Van Schyndel ...
May 08, 2020
Study: State is losing $179 mil a day in GDP
A study shows how much every Wisconsin county is losing while the "safer at home" order is in place. Badger Institute spokesman Michael Jahr says University of Illinois-Chicago Professor Andrew Hanson...
May 07, 2020
Tourism spending up in Winnebago Co. last year
Tourism spending in Winnebago County was up 2.8 percent last year. The Oshkosh Convention and Visitors Bureau is reporting a total of $261 million. Tourism supports an estimated 4,900 jobs with an ove...
May 06, 2020
Hotel in Neenah will become an isolation center
Parts of a hotel in downtown Neenah will be an isolation center for people in Winnebago County with COVID-19. The County Board agreed to a contract with the DoubleTree to rent up to two floors worth o...
Apr 29, 2020
Oshkosh business owner arrested for staying open
The owner of a pet grooming business in Oshkosh was taken into custody for breaking the "safer at home" order. Police say Dog Depot on S. Main Street was open last Friday, and the owner was warned sev...
Apr 27, 2020 (Image from the Oshkosh Police Department)
Study finds $3 million business loss in Winnebago Co.
Over the first two weeks of the "safer at home" order Winnebago County businesses lost more than $3 million dollars. A study by the UW-Oshkosh Center for Research and Services looked at the impact on ...
Apr 23, 2020
Oshkosh seeing far more negative COVID-19 tests
The number of negative coronavirus tests are far outnumbering positives in Wisconsin. The current ratio is about 12 to one. Oshkosh Fire Chief Mike Stanley says it's even better than that locally. He ...
Apr 15, 2020
