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Appleton scales back July 3 festivities after Jaycees withdraw as event organizer
APPLETON — People who planned to spend the day before the Fourth of July drinking beer, eating food and listening to live music at Appleton's Memorial Park might need to make new plans. While the city's annual fireworks display will happen on July 3 as in the past, the...
Two new restaurants, a local food truck and more business news
Happy Thursday and welcome back to The Buzz newsletter!. It's spring in Wisconsin and that means it's time for construction: road construction and business construction. Among those construction projects is a new Pizza Hut currently in progress on Calumet Street in front of Petco on Appleton's east side. Jelissa Burns filled readers in on the new eatery, which will be pick-up and drive-thru only, and when construction is expected to wrap.
These Oshkosh students planted trees, held a cleanup and organized a nature walk for Arbor Day. Here's your weekly dose of community news.
OSHKOSH — Oshkosh North High School’s Communities Program hosted an Arbor Day event, in partnership with the Oshkosh Parks Department, April 26. Students planted three trees in the park behind the school. As part of their service requirement, juniors Charlie Clark, Connor Palmquist and Garret Munig began working...
Judy Russell: Your life in a mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee
Your life, in a mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee. While sorting through more containers and boxes in my quest to rid myself of more “stuff,” I came across this story, which is too good not to share with you. There was no attribution listed for “The Mayonnaise Jar and 2 Cups of Coffee.”
Next up for Seymour grad and 'Shadow and Bone' actor Calahan Skogman: a movie with Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell
The next acting project for Seymour's Calahan Skogman comes with some high-powered company: Oscar nominees Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell. The 2011 Seymour Community High School graduate has joined the ensemble cast of the movie “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey,” which also includes Robbie, the star and producer of last summer’s “Barbie” blockbuster, and Irish actor Farrell of “The Banshees of Inisherin" and "The Batman."
See our roundup of Appleton-area high school proms in 2024
And with that, the 2024 prom season has come to a close. Appleton-area students celebrated their prom night, showing off their best dresses with themes like "A Starry Night," "Tangled," "The Golden Gala" and more. See all the joy and fun in our prom galleries below, featuring Appleton high schools...
Where should Appleton put a dog park? Downtown bluff site, Memorial Park among the ideas
Reader question: If the residents around Pierce Park don't want a dog park, where, exactly, do they suggest it be located? It's ridiculous that Appleton doesn't have a dog park. Answer: The proposal to create an off-leash dog exercise area at the southwest corner of Pierce Park generated blowback from...
Florida Powerboat Club’s Stu and Jackie Jones Heading To Bago Big Bet
Despite that he’s traveled to poker runs he doesn’t organize every summer for the past three decades, Florida Powerboat Club head Stu Jones has never participated in one in Wisconsin. That will change come June 20-23 as Jones has registered for the inaugural Bago Big Bet event presented by Mercury Racing in Oshkosh.
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