Category Archives: Local News
City to Close Broughton Drive and Lakeside Walking Trail for Sand Removal
Wicked Waves and Winds have handed City of Sheboygan crews a pretty big mess to clean up. The mess is a deposit of sand that lines the driving lanes of Broughton Drive, the hillside, and the walking p...
Apr 15, 2025 Map Courtesy of the Sheboygan DPW
Over 1-1/2 Million Dollars in State Highway Aids Coming to Sheboygan County
A quarterly release of State Transportation Aids to improve local roads is headed for Sheboygan County. Governor Evers and the Department of Transportation announced the total $108 million release of ...
Apr 15, 2025
City of Sheboygan to Swear In New Officials Tonight
In the course of two days, the books are closed on one, and another book begins on a new session of Sheboygan City Government. Monday's was the last Common Council meeting of the 2024-25 session with ...
Apr 15, 2025 City of Sheboygan logo
Fire Claims Shed, Machinery in Town of Sherman
A fire in the Town of Sherman has destroyed a shed and its contents. The Sheboygan County Emergency Communications Center got the 911 call at 3:16 a.m. Tuesday, sending responding departments from Sil...
Apr 15, 2025 Location of Tuesday Morning Fire in the Town of Sherman. Image Courtesy of Google Maps
Increased Fire Danger Prompts Warnings from State DNR
Dry vegetation, low humidity and very high winds are combining to present an elevated fire danger and subsequent warnings from the Wisconsin DNR. Although only two small wildfires were active on Monda...
Apr 14, 2025 The Wisconsin DNR responded to 63 wildfires over the weekend, and fire danger remains high across much of the state to start the week. / Photo Credit: Wisconsin DNR
Minimal Highway Maintenance Scheduled in Sheboygan County This Week
Maintenance projects on Sheboygan County highways by the Wisconsin DOT will be minimal this week, while the major reconstruction of Highway 32 between Cedar Grove and Sheboygan Falls will continue div...
Apr 14, 2025 John Kakuk / Unsplash
ROOTS Joins Town of Sheboygan Lions Club to Reforest Town Properties
Four Town of Sheboygan properties will be looking greener in years to come thanks to reforestation efforts that get underway in under two weeks. The project that begins in earnest on Saturday the 26th...
Apr 14, 2025 mattkusb / Depositphotos.com
FINALLY - Phone Scammer Arrested, Held in Washington County Jail on ICE Detainer
A 24-year-old California man has been arrested after trying to defraud an elderly Village of Richfield woman of money through a phone scam. The arrest happened during a sting last Wednesday afternoon ...
Apr 14, 2025 ronniechua / Depositphotos.com
UPDATE - Sheboygan Police Locating Missing Person
A person missing for several days is the subject of a search by Sheboygan Police. The person, 68-year-old Charleen Johnson, was last seen last Thursday. Johnson is described as 5'4" tall, 150 pounds, ...
Apr 14, 2025 Charleen Johnson. Photo Courtesy of the Sheboygan Police Department
Ontario Avenue House Fire Quickly Extinguished on Sunday
City of Sheboygan firefighters made quick work of a blaze that hit a central Sheboygan home on Sunday. The fire broke out in the home located in the 1100 block of Ontario Avenue in Sheboygan at around...
Apr 14, 2025 serezniy / Depositphotos.com
