Category Archives: Local News
Senator LeMahieu Voices Frustration Over Recent Audit of DWD
9th District State Senator Devin LeMahieu Monday (August 2nd) expressed harsh criticism of the recent findings from the Legislative Audit Bureau's regular audit of the State Department of Workforce De...
Aug 03, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu
CASA of East Central Wisconsin Expands to Serve Sheboygan County
The Wisconsin CASA Association is expanding the work of CASA of East Central Wisconsin to include Sheboygan County. The Wisconsin Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Association champions and giv...
Aug 03, 2021
Woman Flees from Manitowoc Police, Resists Arrest
A woman was on her way to drop paperwork off at a lawyer's office in Manitowoc when she landed herself in even more legal trouble. The woman was caught speeding in the 200 block of Maritime Drive at a...
Aug 03, 2021
Local Psychologist Stands Behind Simone Biles
Even though Simone Biles competed in the balance beam event at the Tokyo Olympics this morning, earning a bronze medal, many people have criticized her for stepping down from previous events due to he...
Aug 03, 2021 Alistair Ross / CC
Two Rivers PD Celebrating National Night Out, Manitowoc PD Only Having Private Events
Tonight, all around the country, police departments will be celebrating National Night Out. According to the National Night Out webpage, the annual event was created in 1984 to promote police-communit...
Aug 03, 2021
C & S Wholesale Grocers to Purchase Piggly Wiggly Midwest
Piggly Wiggly will soon be under new ownership. C&S Wholesale Grocers has announced plans to purchase Piggly Wiggly Midwest which is headquartered in Sheboygan. With the deal, C&S would acquir...
Aug 03, 2021 Steve Snodgrass / CC
WOMT Radio to Experience Short Radio Outage, Online Streaming Will Remain Available
WOMT Radio is scheduled to go off the air sometime this morning for tower maintenance on another antenna co-located on the WOMT structure. The lightning and rainstorms of July 14th and 15th that rolle...
Aug 03, 2021
Brown County Man Charged with Starting Eight Fires Between 2018 and 2021
A Brown County man is facing charges after it was discovered that he allegedly started eight fires between 2018 and 2021. 24-year-old James Ambrosius was questioned shortly after a fire at Dedicated R...
Aug 03, 2021
Appleton Police Respond to "Situation, Possibly Involving a Weapon" Near Downtown
Details have not yet been fully explained, but the Appleton Police Department had officers near the downtown area yesterday (August 2nd) responding to a "situation, possibly involving a weapon." That ...
Aug 03, 2021
Manitowoc's Leede Research Expands Nationwide Landscaper Listing
A local research firm is expanding a national listing of landscapers and manufacturers of the equipment they use. Dean Halverson, CEO of Leede research says they started putting the listing together a...
Aug 02, 2021
