Category Archives: ((WHBYAM) 1150 WHBY) COVID-19-WHBY

Fire prevention lessons move online
The pandemic is forcing firefighters to change the way they reach out to kids during Fire Prevention Week. Lt. Shauna Walesh of the Green Bay Metro department is meeting with students virtually. She...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 08, 2020

Poll shows nearly 3 in 4 support mask order
Support for the statewide mask mandate grew in the latest Marquette Law School poll. Seventy-two percent believe masks should be required in public places, and that’s up from 69 percent in Augus...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 08, 2020

Oshkosh plans ‘Truck or Treat’ Saturday
Staffers at the Oshkosh parks department are putting together a way to celebrate Halloween during the pandemic. It’s called Truck or Treat, and it’s a combination of Zooloween Boo and Touc...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 08, 2020

GOP wants hearing on capacity limits
The statewide capacity limits took effect today, and Majority Republicans in the Legislature want to hold a rules hearing on the order. The order from Governor Evers and the Department of Health Servi...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 08, 2020

Markesan school superintendent dies from COVID-19
The superintendent of the Markesan School District died, after a lengthy battle with coronavirus. Sixty-one-year-old Duane Bark was also the district’s athletic director. A social media post fro...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 08, 2020

2 Waupun prison inmates die from COVID-19
Two inmates at the state’s prison in Waupun died from COVID-19. The Dodge County Medical Examiner is confirming they passed away in September. The Department of Corrections says it doesn’t...
Jonathan Krause Oct 08, 2020

Appleton sees 11th COVID-19 death
The Appleton health department is reporting the 11th death in the city from COVID-19. The person was in their 70s.
Jonathan Krause Oct 08, 2020

Markesan school superintendent dies of COVID-19
The superintendent of the Markesan School District died after a lengthy battle with COVID-19. Duane Bark was also the district’s athletic director. A post on the Trailways Conference social medi...
Carol Patrizi Oct 08, 2020

Howard-Suamico donating money to school district
The villages of Howard and Suamico have figured out how to donate excess money they received from the federal government through the CARES Act to the school district. Leaders say they used some of the...
Carol Patrizi Oct 08, 2020

ThedaCare hospitals close to capacity
ThedaCare’s president says they were scrambling Tuesday morning, because all of their beds, at all of their hospitals, were full. Dr. Imran Andrabi says staff had been working around the clock, ...
Mike Kemmeter Oct 07, 2020


