By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – After state funding to help build a new visitor center in the Green Bay area wasn’t included in Gov. Tony Evers’ approved biennial budget, another effort has been introduced to provide a $2 million state grant for the project. Evers was on hand for a press conference Monday, …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – Sledding, picnics, baking, fishing, shopping, driving lessons, helping with homework, day trips to the beach or the Milwaukee zoo – these are just a handful of the memories De Pere resident Maureen Oldenburg has been able to share with her Pal over the last 12 years. “I always …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – Sixteen bids totaling more than $54 million for building the new expo center project were approved Tuesday, Aug. 13, by the Ashwaubenon Community Development Authority. The approved bids, by type, company name and amount, include: • Site utilities, Scott DeNoble, $1,302,209. • Masonry, Hein Masonry, $3,213,800. • Steel …
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By Lauren Waters Correspondent BELLEVUE – Community collaboration was the theme of the STEM Innovation Center press conference on Wednesday, July 24, held at the Einstein Project in Bellevue. “In order for us to get things done, we need to come together as partners and to work together for the common good,” said Brown County …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – The Honorable William Atkinson, one of Brown County’s long-serving circuit court judges, will be hanging up his robe this August – and the hunt is on for his replacement. Atkinson has been a Brown County judge since 1991. Before that, he served as Green Bay’s municipal judge for …
By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – A proposed ordinance requiring lobbyists to register with the county before engaging in any lobbying of Brown County elected officials, committees or boards is headed back to committee after many supervisors had unanswered questions. A majority vote at the board’s Wednesday, July 17, meeting sent the proposal back …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – In a close 14-11 vote (with one absence), the county board voted Wednesday, July 17, to adopt an ordinance that sets standard days and times for all standing committee meetings. The ordinance requires all regular meetings of the county’s six standing committees (Administration, Education and Recreation, Executive, Human …
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By Lee Reinsch Correspondent ASHWAUBENON – Just short of 62 years after leaders broke ground for the Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena (Sept. 22, 1957) and just shy of 33 years after the opening of the Brown County Exposition Hall, later Shopko Hall (Sept. 27, 1986), groups came together to break ground again, this time …
By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer GREEN BAY – Though Brown County is applying for grant money to help purchase three parcels along Nicolet Drive for a safe harbor on the Bay of Green Bay, an effort is now underway to convince the county to not pursue the project. The possible acquisition of the 4.54-acre Eagles …
By Lauren Waters Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Brown County Library’s Bookmobile is expanding its services to the community this summer by partnering with other county departments to form Brown County on the Go. Representatives from The Brown County Library, The Neville Public Museum, Aging Disability and Resource Center (ADRC), and Extension Brown County held …
