Category Archives: Local News
HOLLAND FESTIVAL TO RETURN FROM PANDEMIC PAUSE
2020 was a year of uncertainty and disappointment. Most things that make life more than simple survival had to be set aside, forcing a pause to many annual traditions. Among those traditions was the c...
Jul 19, 2021 Beth Heuver rehearses Klompen Dancers in Cedar Grove. Photo by Kevin Zimmermann
JMKAC'S MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS HONORS FOUNDER
Crowds and sunshine were equally plentiful during the John Michael Kohler Arts Center's Midsummer Festival of the Arts over the weekend. The event was another welcome sign of emergence from the pandem...
Jul 19, 2021 JMKAC Art Fair 2019
photo by Kevin Zimmermann
UPDATE: Woman Killed In Rollover Crash Near Random Lake
(WHBL) - A woman from Brodhead is dead after a rollover crash Friday morning in the Town of Scott. The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department says they got a report of a car in some trees off of Highwa...
Jul 16, 2021 Police lights
RECENT RAINS HELPING TO EASE DROUGHT LOCALLY
The ongoing drought affecting more than half of Wisconsin has been dampened a bit by recent rains according to data from the National Weather Service. Sheboygan County's northern 3/4 is now experienci...
Jul 16, 2021 July 13 Drought Monitor from the National Weather Service
GLENBEULAH MAN AMONG 3 CHARGED IN VALDERS ROBBERY/ASSAULT LAST WEEK
Manitowoc County Sheriff Dan Hartwig reports that all three suspects in an attempted armed robbery on July 7th have been accounted for, and two are in custody. The three, one of them from Sheboygan Co...
Jul 16, 2021 Timo Kuusela / CC
COUNTY DPH REPORTS COVID TRAJECTORY UP 170% WEEK-OVER-WEEK
The Division of Public Health issued its weekly update on the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, indicating an upward progression in Sheboygan County, reversing for now a trend that had seen th...
Jul 16, 2021 sergio santos / CC
Malfunctioning Tornado Sirens Sound In New Holstein
NEW HOLSTEIN, WI (WHBL) - Tornado sirens went off in New Holstein around 11:30 Wednesday night, and emergency management says it was an equipment malfunction that caused it. While there were storms bl...
Jul 15, 2021 Welcome to New Holstein Sign
Sheboygan Police Respond to Stabbing
SHEBOYGAN, WI (WHBL) - Sheboygan Police responded to a report of a stabbing at Fountain Park on Wednesday afternoon around 3:30. There's not a lot of information being made available at this time, but...
Jul 15, 2021 Sheboygan Police
Lightning Believed to Have Caused Kiel House Fire
KIEL, WI (WHBL) - Fire crews from Elkhart Lake assisted the Kiel Fire Department with a house fire in Kiel Wednesday night. It was reported shortly before 10pm on 10th St. The residents of the home we...
Jul 15, 2021 Fire
ACTIVE COVID CASES EDGE UP, WALK-IN WEDNESDAY VAX CLINIC OFFERED
While it's too early to call it a trend, and there's no data available to show that the "Delta" variant is behind the rise, the number of active cases of COVID-19 reported by the Sheboygan County Divi...
Jul 15, 2021 sergio santos / CC
