Category Archives: Local News
Wisconsin Seeing Smoke From Chemical Fire In Illinois
(WHBL) - A chemical plant fire just south of the Illinois border is expected to burn for days. No one is saying just what started the fire Monday at the Chemtool plant in Rockton, Illinois. It was aro...
Jun 15, 2021 liz west / CC
SEVERE BLOOD SHORTAGE PROMPTS URGENT APPEAL FOR DONORS
With an unusually high number of traumas and emergency room visits, transplants and rising numbers of elective surgeries, hospitals in Wisconsin are finding supplies of blood at dangerously low levels...
Jun 15, 2021 Charleston's TheDigitel / CC
COUNTY ACTIVE COVID CASES LOWEST SINCE LAST JULY 7, NONE HOSPITALIZED
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Sheboygan County is at its lowest level since 44 were reported on July 7 last year. 48 cases are known by the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health as of Mo...
Jun 14, 2021 sergio santos / CC
FORMER SHEBOYGAN ALDERMAN ANNOUNCES GUBERNATORIAL BID
Former Sheboygan Alderman Job Edmond Hou-Seye has announced his bid to become the next Governor of Wisconsin. Hou-Seye, who served as Alderman from 2015-2017 and ran three unsuccessful campaigns for S...
Jun 14, 2021
UPDATE: Cleanup Underway After Train Derailment Near Cedar Grove
CEDAR GROVE, Wis. (WHBL) - For the second time in less than a year, there was a train derailment on the Union Pacific rail line. This time, it happened just south of Cedar Grove - a number of full coa...
Jun 12, 2021 Train Derailment. Courtesy: Matt DeMaster
COVID STATS SHOWING MINOR CHANGES IN FRIDAY'S DAILY UPDATE
Two more confirmed positive tests for COVID-19 were received on Friday by the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health, raising the running total for the pandemic to 13,870. With six recoveries sinc...
Jun 11, 2021 sergio santos / CC
PREVEA COMMUNITY VACCINATION CLINIC AT UWGB-SHEBOYGAN ENDING
The last day for COVID-19 vaccines at the UW-Green Bay Sheboygan Campus will be Tuesday, June 15th. The announcement was made on Thursday by Prevea Health President and CEO Dr. Ashok Roi, who said tha...
Jun 11, 2021 Prevea Health
SEXUAL ASSAULT CONVICTION OF FALLS MAN OVERTURNED
The conviction of a Sheboygan Falls man for repeated sexual assault of a child was reversed on Wednesday by the Wisconsin District 2 Court of Appeals. The reversal was ordered after finding that the c...
Jun 11, 2021 Gavel in court room
PANDEMIC NOT DONE YET - ANOTHER DEATH, MORE ACTIVES IN COUNTY
Despite encouraging trends of late, the data provided on Thursday by the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health made it clear that COVID-19 remains a significant and deadly threat. The 147th perso...
Jun 10, 2021 sergio santos / CC
ONLY THREE WEEKS UNTIL SHEBOYGAN "FREEDOM FEST"
After so much isolation and restrictions during the pandemic, the title of Sheboygan's Independence Day celebration - "Freedom Fest" - seems all the more appropriate this year. Last year the City of S...
Jun 10, 2021 bayasaa / CC
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