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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Organizations in the Fox Cities remind the public that there are resources in our community that can help people in desperate situations. This reminder comes after a sentencing hearing for a man who admitted to robbing a bank after losing his job because he felt that going to jail was a better outcome than homelessness.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Paul Steeno
APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) – Organizations in the Fox Cities remind the public that there are resources in our community that can help people in desperate situations. This reminder comes after a sentencing hearing for a man who admitted to robbing a bank after losing his job because he felt that going to jail was a better outcome than homelessness.
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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WFRV) – A new program is transforming how authorities handle police calls involving homeless individuals. Fond du Lac police chief Aaron Goldstein said they recently studied police call trends at their dispatch center. He said that between June 2024 through January 2025 they received about 200 police calls that involved homeless individuals.
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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
MENASHA, Wis. (WFRV) – We’re getting a better idea of what the future of the UW Oshkosh Fox Cities campus will look like, but not everybody loves what they’re hearing. On Tuesday night, Winnebago County supervisors approved a resolution to buy Outagamie County’s share of the UWO Fox Cities campus. The two counties have jointly operated the campus for decades, but the imminent closure of the campus for higher education purposes has created lots of uncertainty.
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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
MENASHA, Wis. (WFRV) –Community members will have to wait awhile for it but a new recreational trail is likely coming to the Fox Cities. The new trail will connect the Trestle Trail in Menasha to High Cliff State Park in Sherwood along a 11 mile route. There are several municipalities involved in the project and officials tell Local 5 News that they’re early on in the process.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Paul Steeno
MENASHA, Wis. (WFRV) – Community members will have to wait a while for it but a new recreational trail is likely coming to the Fox Cities. The new trail will connect the Trestle Trail in Menasha to High Cliff State Park in Sherwood along a 11 mile route. There are several municipalities involved in the project and officials tell Local 5 News that they’re early on in the process.
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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – As the clock ticks closer to the start of the NFL draft in Green Bay, construction around Lambeau Field has picked up. The most visible sign of progress is the NFL draft stage and theater near the corner of Oneida and Lombardi. On Thursday, Local 5 News was there when construction workers raised the roof of the theater. Work on the stage and theater continued on Friday.
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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
NEENAH, Wis. (WFRV) – Construction on a new Veterans memorial in Neenah has officially begun. “It’ll mean so much to all the Veterans, not just to me, something we set out to do and we finally did it,” said local Vietnam War Veteran Bob Borszich. Borszich and other Veterans approached City of Neenah officials about revamping the existing Veterans memorial in Shattuck Park. It included a memorial plaque and three flags: the American flag, Wisconsin flag, and a POW/MIA flag.
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1 week ago | 
wearegreenbay.com | Paul Steeno
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Paul Steeno
NEENAH, Wis. (WFRV) – Construction on a new veterans memorial in Neenah has officially begun. “It’ll mean so much to all the veterans not just to me, something we set out to do and we finally did it,” said local Vietnam War veteran Bob Borszich. Borszich and other veterans approached city of Neenah officials about revamping the existing veterans memorial in Shattuck Park. It included a memorial plaque and three flags, the American flag, Wisconsin flag, and a POW/MIA flag.
