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1 week ago | 
greenbaypressgazette.com | Jesse Lin
Cellcom will automatically adjust customers' July phone bills after a weekslong outage left thousands of Wisconsin residents and businesses without service, the company announced May 30"We know the recent disruption shook your trust, and we're serious about earning it back," the company wrote in a May 30 Facebook post. The company said the measure was a "gesture of goodwill" and its way of thanking customers for sticking with the Howard-based cellular provider.
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1 week ago | 
greenbaypressgazette.com | Jesse Lin
The Wisconsin Elections Commission found David VanderLeest's allegations of fraud in Green Bay's spring 2024 elections to have no basis. VanderLeest's claims were speculative, not grounded in the law, or were undeveloped, the commission found. Both parties have until 30 days from May 27 to appeal the decision in circuit court.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Jesse Lin
(This article was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) The Wisconsin Elections Commission found no basis for David VanderLeest's allegations that Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys and the city's Municipal Board of Canvassers had tampered with a recount during the spring 2024 elections.
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1 week ago | 
greenbaypressgazette.com | Jesse Lin
Green Bay Water was graded in the Wisconsin's first water report card for water utilities. The water utility disagreed with its failing score, citing caveats with the report card. Green Bay's grades reflected the strengths and weaknesses of water utilities across the state. Green Bay Water got two A's, a B, and an F in the first report card to assess Wisconsin's drinking water.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jesse Lin
A proposed three-unit townhouse development in the Schmitt Park neighborhood is being referred back to staff after the potential developers submitted “new information” ahead of an expected zoning exemption vote. The Green Bay City Council was scheduled to vote May 20 regarding the proposal that is unpopular with some who live in the neighborhood on the city's northeast corner abutting Baird Creek and Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.
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2 weeks ago | 
greenbaypressgazette.com | Jesse Lin
A proposed three-unit townhouse development in the Schmitt Park neighborhood is being referred back to staff after the potential developers submitted “new information” ahead of an expected zoning exemption vote. The Green Bay City Council was scheduled to vote May 20 regarding the proposal that is unpopular with some who live in the neighborhood on the city's northeast corner abutting Baird Creek and Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary.
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2 weeks ago | 
usatoday.com | Jesse Lin
Reader question: Did people actually pay to park at Colburn Park for the [2025 NFL Draft]? If people were dropping their prices around Lambeau [Field] I can't imagine who would choose to pay $50 to park all the way up there. Also how many people used the parking ramps downtown when they charged more to park there?
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3 weeks ago | 
greenbaypressgazette.com | Jesse Lin
Jesse LinGreen Bay Press-GazetteA nearly 14,000-square-foot building at Murphy Park could be the permanent home for the Market on Military. It's projected to cost $4.9 million. The Parks Department and the Military Avenue Business District agree on the general terms of sharing the proposed space, though a final contract has not yet been drafted. The proposal has overwhelmingly gotten positive feedback from the public, according to city staff.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jesse Lin
On Green Bay's west side, the NEW Community Shelter has been waiting to break ground on 41 apartments for some of its residents transitioning back into society. In the city's east side, the Parks Department and health-oriented nonprofit Wello have been waiting on a funding source to build an urban barn on former JBS land that will become the city's first neighborhood intentionally designed to be multi-generational.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Jesse Lin
A coveted national award in health goes is coming to Green Bay. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropy dedicated solely to health, selected the city as one of nine 2024 winners of its Culture of Health Prize. Since 2013, the prize has recognized communities "at the forefront of addressing structural racism and other structural injustices" to improve residents' well-being, according to the award's description.
