Category Archives: Local News
Emergency Phone Service Outage Linked to Fiber Network Interruption
A cut in a fiber optic network cable is apparently behind interruption to emergency cell-based services on Tuesday. The interruption was noted shortly after 2 p.m. when the Sheboygan County Sheriff's ...
Jan 15, 2025 Stringer_Image / Depositphotos.com
Online Training Opportunities Expand Through New Lakeshore College Program
With the supply of well-trained workers in high demand, Lakeshore College aims to equip working adults with the new skills needed to fill that demand. Toward that goal, a new strategic partnership has...
Jan 14, 2025
GoFundMe Effort Begun in Wake of Falls Fire
Friends and relatives of the victims of a Sunday night house fire are raising funds to help soften the blow. A GoFundMe page has been established by the daughter-in-law of the woman who lost her home ...
Jan 14, 2025 This Photo, Courtesy of GoFundMe, Shows the Home Destroyed by Fire in Sheboygan Falls Sunday Night
Nearly a Half Million $$ Gifted Toward SASD, Lakeland U
Students in the Sheboygan Area School District are among the beneficiaries of a nearly half million dollar donation made by the Black Spring Foundation. That fund is the product of donations made to h...
Jan 14, 2025 Sheboygan Area School District logo
Kurt Zempel Chosen as New Sheboygan Chief of Police
The City of Sheboygan has a new Chief of Police. A special meeting of the Board of Police and Fire Commissioners chose current assistant Chief Kurt Zempel to replace Christopher Domagalski upon his re...
Jan 13, 2025 Kurt Zempel - Photo courtesy of the Sheboygan Police Department
Cold Weather Advisory Issued for Counties Inland of Lake Michigan
A cold weather advisory for dangerously frigid conditions has been issued for much of central Wisconsin inland of Lake Michigan, with Sheboygan County escaping the worst expected weather. Wind chill r...
Jan 13, 2025 NWS Graphic
Multi-County Investigation Culminates in Arrests of Suspects in Overdose Death
The death of a 39-year-old Hartford woman is headed for justice with the arrests of several persons accused of supplying the drugs that led to her overdose last June. Washington County Sheriff's Lieut...
Jan 13, 2025 Fentanyl
More Winter Road Work Scheduled in Sheboygan County
While major road construction usually takes a break during the winter months, lesser maintenance projects don't, and there will be several of those underway in Sheboygan County this week. DOT crews wi...
Jan 13, 2025 jojoo64 / Depositphotos.com
Sheboygan Jaycees Announce Brat Day(s) Returning to Kiwanis Park August 2nd
After its fate remained in question over the past several years, the Sheboygan Jaycees have announced that there will be a Brat Day festival in 2025. The event that the Jaycees call "a symbol of Shebo...
Jan 13, 2025 Brat Days as Seen on the Sheboygan Jaycees Facebook Page. Photo courtesy of the Sheboygan Jaycees
Sheriff Hoping Public Helps I-D Hit-and-Run Suspect
The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Office is trying to identify the suspect in a recent hit-and-run incident and is asking for the public's help. The request was posted on the Sheriff's facebook page on F...
Jan 13, 2025
