Category Archives: ((WHBYAM) 1150 WHBY) Local News

State offers bigger loans to Kenosha businesses
The state is offering more money, through no-interest loans, to businesses that were damaged or destroyed in Kenosha. Governor Evers is adding another $3 million, after initially setting aside $1 mill...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Packers provide final COVID-19 fund grants
The Green Bay Packers are handing out the final five Brown County grants from a special COVID-19 Community Relief Fund. The team sent $1 million to 58 groups, and another $500,000 to organizations in ...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Local hospitals set records for COVID-19 patients
Administrators at the largest hospitals in the Fox Cities report they’re seeing record numbers of COVID-19 patients right now. Dr. Tom Nichols is the vice president of medical affairs at Ascensi...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

State prepares for distributing vaccine
State health officials are already planning for the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine. Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems-Van Dijk says they’re working on a databas...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

State has most new COVID-19 cases in 4 days
There are 1,762 new confirmed COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin, and that’s the most in four days. The state is reporting 13.1 percent of tests came back positive. That’s below the seven-day ave...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Thompson thinks COVID-19 prevention steps are working
Six COVID-19 hotspots in Wisconsin share a common thing — a UW System campus. System President Tommy Thompson says their work to prevent the spread at the schools is starting to pay off. While h...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Four facing federal charges for FdL gun buys
A federal grand jury is indicting four Fond du Lac men accused of using drug addicts to buy them guns. Jonathan Griffin, Jason Spinks, Shakie Davis, and Treon Dennis are facing counts of conspiracy, a...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Local companies advance in ‘Coolest Thing’ contest
Five companies from the Fox Valley area made it to the second round of the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” contest. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce spokesman Nick Novak says they ha...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Sentence upheld in scrap car fraud case
A state appeals court is upholding the 11-year prison sentence for a Neenah man convicted of defrauding a scrap metal company. The judges rejected arguments from Sterling Kienbaum that his state sente...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020

Name released of elderly Princeton fire victim
The elderly woman killed in a house fire in Princeton was 92-year-old Joyce Des Jardins. Green Lake County Sheriff’s deputies say she was trapped inside the home along Main Street last Saturday ...
Mike Kemmeter Sep 23, 2020



