By Melinda Anne Roberts Correspondent GREEN BAY – Captain Neil Graham Hansen has lived an extraordinary life from when he began to fly at age 15 to his years as a pilot for Jimmy Hoffa to his infamous exploits as a CIA operative with Air America in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Hansen was …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – The possibility of a new public safe harbor boat landing in Brown County with direct access to the lower bay took once step closer to becoming a reality at the Wednesday, April 17 county board meeting. The county is working on get funding to acquire approximately 4.54 acres …
By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – After much discussion, the Brown County Board of Supervisors voted to authorize and approve a new lease with the Ashwaubenon Community Development Authority (CDA) for the new expo center, planned at the site of the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena. This lease will replace the one the county …
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By Press Times Staff OSHKOSH – Local people and groups won awards from the Wisconsin Association of Historic Preservation Commissions Friday, April 12, in Oshkosh. For the Identification and Designation category Award of Excellence, the village of Allouez won “for outstanding accomplishments of creating a Historic District, placing three buildings on the National Register of …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer HOWARD – A site plan to construct an 80,000-square-foot building for manufacturing and converting paper products at 1480 Brookfield Ave. in Howard was approved Monday, April 15, by the village’s Plan Commission. The plan conditions approved for Soar Manufacturing/KSR Holdings LLC include having additional masonry on the full front of …
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By Lee Reinsch Correspondent DE PERE – On Tuesday, April 16, the De Pere Common Council voted to cost-share with Wisconsin Public Service to bury power lines on Ryan Road instead of relocating the power poles, despite the city’s share of the tab turning out to be larger than previously indicated. Relocation of the lines …
HOWARD – The eighth annual 2Myles4Autism will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 27, at Meadowbrook Elementary School in Howard. The event is a 2 1/2 mile run/walk that was started by Vanessa Moran’s third-grade students in support of one of their peers, Myles Welnetz, who is on the autism spectrum. Individuals with autism have …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUNBEON – Preliminary layoff notices for four teachers were approved Wednesday, April 10, by the Ashwaubenon school board. Cassandra Shallue, a five-year-old kindergarten teacher at Valley View Elementary School, and Michelle Flannigon, a sixth-grade teacher at Parkview Middle School, are the two full-time teachers receiving the preliminary notices. Allison Sudol, …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – A site plan to build a five-story office building in the Titletown District received conditional approval Tuesday, April 16, from the village’s Site Plan Review Committee. The proposed office building is planned as part of the Phase II development in Titletown District, west of where the Phase I …
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By Press Times Staff BROWN COUNTY – Two local high school juniors earned perfect scores on the ACT. The Green Bay Area Public School District has announced that Taylor Gillis of Green Bay East High School has earned a perfect score of 36 on the ACT. She’s involved in pit orchestra, tennis, Academic Decathlon, National …
