By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – A month after appointing a new trustee, the village board will be going through the same process to once again have seven members with two trustees resigning, effective Oct. 1. Board members agreed Tuesday, Sept. 22, to accept applications/resumes through Oct. 21 to fill the posted vacancies resulting …
By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – People wanting to keep pigeons would be limited to 12 birds with a permit under an ordinance amendment backed Tuesday, Sept. 1, by the Public Works and Protection Committee. The committee also backed limiting the number of permits to keep pigeons in Ashwaubenon to four. Village Attorney Tony …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – The search is on for a new village manager after the Ashwaubenon village board Tuesday, Aug. 25, finalized a revised job description. Ashwaubenon is going on two months without a village manager after Allison Swanson resigned from the position effective July 8. The village’s Finance and Personnel Committee …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – A De Pere woman who organized a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Ashwaubenon last month is refusing to pay an invoice for nearly $800 from the village. Hannah Lundin’s attorney, David Hassel, has called the village’s action a “clear violation of the First Amendment and a deliberate …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – After not beginning Northwoods League baseball games this summer at Capital Credit Union Park until July with a reduced seating capacity because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the owner of the Green Bay Booyah and the Village of Ashwaubenon have agreed to change to terms for the stadium lease. …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – Copies of billing records obtained in an open records request by The Press Times indicate an outside investigation into complaints the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Officers’ Association (APSOA) made about former Village Manager Allison Swanson cost nearly $19,400 through the end of April. The von Briesen & Roper law …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – Grievances filed by the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Officers’ Association (APSOA) remain pending an arbitration hearing before the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) after the village board decided in closed session June 23 not to consider any of them further, said Clerk-Treasurer Patrick Moynihan. The APSOA’s attorney, Aaron Halstead …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – An attorney representing Village Manager Allison Swanson has confirmed she is resigning from the position, effective July 8. Swanson became the village manager in 2011, after having been a city attorney in Green Bay, and is married to an Ashwaubenon public safety officer, Kevin Buckley. In a statement …
By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – Copies of investigative reports obtained in an open records request by The Press Times indicate an outside attorney hired by the village board did not find the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Officers’ Association (APSOA) violated anti-harassment or whistleblower policies when it announced a no-confidence vote of Village Manager Allison …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer ASHWAUBENON – The village board scheduled a special meeting Thursday, May 28, when it planned to consider employee personnel and grievance matters related to Village Manager Allison Swanson and/or the Ashwaubenon Public Safety Officers’ Association (APSOA). But when four of five board members present voted against going into closed session, …
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