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LU loaning dorm to city for COVID-19 fight
Lawrence University is letting the City of Appleton use one of the dorms on campus during the coronavirus pandemic. The school says city staff can stay at Trever Hall, if necessary. The dorm will not ...
Apr 23, 2020
Name released of woman killed in fire
The woman killed in a house fire in Marinette County earlier this week was 85-year-old June Snyder. Snyder was found dead inside a house in the Town of Wagner, after firefighters put out the fire on M...
Apr 23, 2020
Meat plant in G.B. has more coronavirus cases
Brown County Public Health is reporting 189 confirmed coronavirus cases are connected to workers at the JBS beef plant on Green Bay’s east side. That’s 42 more than yesterday. Another 55 c...
Apr 23, 2020
Easter gatherings could be spiking virus in Brown Co.
Brown County public health officials believe Easter gatherings are part of the reason cases are spiking there. Claire Paprocki says there are “strong indications” of that connection. Healt...
Apr 23, 2020
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 th...
Apr 23, 2020
Hoarding thing of the past at grocery stores
Grocery shoppers apparently aren’t hoarding anymore. The operations manager for the Stoneridge Piggly Wiggly Stores in the Fox Valley thinks customers were frustrated at the beginning of the pan...
Apr 23, 2020
Appleton area will wait longer for stimulus checks
A website believes people in the Appleton area will have to wait longer than most in the country to get their federal stimulus payment. Magnifymoney.com ranks the community ninth in the U.S. for the l...
Apr 23, 2020
Anti-racism nonprofit in Oshkosh to close
An Oshkosh organization dedicated to fighting racism is shutting down. The board of directors is dissolving Fit Oshkosh after director Tracey Robertson decided to leave the nonprofit. She says they co...
Apr 23, 2020
Appleton’s health officer staying on
The public health officer for Appleton isn’t going to retire in June after all. Kurt Eggebrecht says it would be tough to walk away during a pandemic. Mayor Jake Woodford announced the move at l...
Apr 23, 2020
ThedaCare celebrates COVID-19 patient’s release
Staff at ThedaCare’s Appleton hospital lined the halls with cheers and applause, while the hospital’s 11th COVID-19 patient was being released today. Seventy-nine-year-old Keith Jameson sp...
Apr 23, 2020
