Category Archives: Local News
Two Area Medical Facilities Receive Energy Efficiency Excellence Award
Ahead of Earth Day, Focus on Energy is recognizing businesses and other groups throughout Wisconsin for their statewide impacts and dedicated efforts in energy efficiency with its annual Energy Effici...
Apr 14, 2021 Vinovin / CC
Manitowoc County Sheriff Voices Thanks to Jail Staff for Their Work During the Pandemic
The pandemic changed the way many workers had to approach their job, and jailers are no exception. In fact, their job got ever harder, as if even a single case of COVID-19 were to have entered the jai...
Apr 14, 2021 Manitowoc County Sheriff Dan Hartwig
Two Rivers City Meetings (Branding/Marketing, Environmental Advisory) 4/14/2021
There are two meetings scheduled to take place at 5:30 PM in Two Rivers City Hall this evening. The Branding and Marketing Committee will be occupying the Council Chambers, where they will look over t...
Apr 14, 2021
Manitowoc City Meeting (Industrial Development) 4/14/2021
There is only one meeting on the agenda for this evening in the City of Manitowoc. The Industrial Development Corporation will be gathering at 4:00 PM in the second floor Conference Room in City Hall....
Apr 14, 2021
Manitowoc Woman Arrested with Drugs After Flooding Her Hotel Room
A Manitowoc Woman is facing drug charges after she allegedly flooded her hotel room. Officers were dispatched to the Harbor Town Inn on Calumet Avenue just after 11:00 AM on Tuesday on a report of a w...
Apr 14, 2021
Electric Scooters May Be Arriving in Sheboygan
Many large cities throughout the country have implemented electric scooters for pedestrians to get around easier. Now Sheboygan may be the next city to get them. It is being reported that Bird Rides I...
Apr 14, 2021 Kristoffer Trolle / CC
Local State Representative Votes to Require Holocaust Education in Wisconsin Classrooms
A Senate bill that aimed to place the Holocaust and other genocides' instruction into the state model social studies standards was before the State Assembly recently and a local Representative voted i...
Apr 14, 2021
Long-Delayed Trial In Cold Case Murder Put Off Another 9 Months
The long-delayed trial for a man accused of a cold case murder from 1975 has been put off another nine months. First, it took 43 years to find enough evidence to charge Richard Pierce, then the pandem...
Apr 14, 2021 CC / depositphotos
Manitowoc County Health Officer Explains the Suspension of the Johnson and Johnson Vaccine
Manitowoc County has joined with the entire state in suspending the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine while Federal Agencies investigate six cases in which women who received the singl...
Apr 14, 2021
COVID Vaccinations Slow in Manitowoc County Tuesday
Following three consecutive reports where the number of COVID -19 vaccines administered was over 1,000, the Manitowoc County Health Department reported a severe dip in that number. In their update yes...
Apr 14, 2021
