Hometown Broadcasting News Thursday 5/14/20
14 May 2020 News
Oshkosh Phone Scam
Oshkosh Police are warning residents about a phone scam in which the caller says they are an officer with the Oshkosh Police Department. A resident notified the department of getting such a call in which the caller told the resident they had a court order to appear in court and they had missed that appearance. The resident was furnished with a phone number they needed to call (920) 350-3795. The scammer spoofed the department’s number, which came up on the caller ID as being from the Oshkosh Police Department. Oshkosh Police say they would never call about having a court order to appear in court or missing a court date.
Portage Arrested For OWI After Driving The Wrong Way On Interstate 39
A 59-year-old Portage man was arrested in Marquette County for his 7th operating while intoxicated offense early Wednesday morning. According to the State Patrol Thomas Elsing was driving the wrong way on Interstate 39. He was stopped a short distance north of the Columbia County line and appeared to be operating while impaired. He was subsequently arrested. The traffic stop was made at 12:46 Wednesday morning.
Jury Trial Scheduled For Beaver Dam Woman Accused Of Killing Son
A three-day jury trial has been scheduled in October in Dodge County court for a 28-year-old Beaver Dam woman charged with reckless homicide in the death of her two-year-old son. Amanda Trost is charged with first degree reckless homicide. An autopsy found methadone in her boy’s system. On February 23rd of last year Trost found her son not breathing and performed CPR until first responders arrived. She denied giving the drug to him and told investigators she had spilled some and used a paper towel to clean up, which she then threw in the trash. The trial is scheduled for October 27th through the 29th.
Yard Signs Praise Frontline Workers
Ripon Community COVID-19 Task Force member Jeff Puhlmann-Becker says his family awoke Wednesday morning to find two signs in their yard praising the efforts of teachers during the current health crisis. He says the school district put them in the yards of teachers overnight recognizing them for continuing to teach kids albeit virtually. Puhlmann-Becker’s wife and son are both teachers. He says there are signs throughout the community recognizing a lot of our frontline heroes during the battle with the pandemic. “You see these signs all over where people are recognizing the people that go out of their way and take a risk like either in person health care workers, daycare workers, grocery store workers, emergency service people or people who are really keeping things together in a different form like teachers.” He says a lot of people in the community are trying to address needs in some pretty trying times.
Isolation A Problem During COVID 19 Pandemic
The Chief Behavioral Officer for Family Health La Clinica in Wautoma says the sad thing about the COVID-19 pandemic is the isolation it has forced upon us. Philip Robinson says Safer at Home orders have forced us to spend either too much time with family or into isolation, both of which can have their drawbacks. “For some folks that’s being stuck with family or being stuck with folks too much and then other folks it’s total isolation and they don’t have anybody that they are with and there is nobody who can just put their arm around their shoulder and say hey we’re here together and I love you and want to take care of you and we need that, human beings need that.” Robinson says we do need some bonding out in our communities and relationships are important in the healing and recovery process. Family Health La Clinica has a COVID Hotline that phone number is 920-787-9450, extension 499.
Waiting To Reopen EAA Museum
An official with the Experimental Aircraft Association in Oshkosh says they would like to get their museum up and running again when it is practical . Dick Knapinski says they have a large facility, which would make social distancing required with the pandemic easy. “In the museum we can do some distancing. It is a big facility people can stay well separated from one another we can put visitor limits on. So we are eager to learn about that, just get people back with us again.” He says employees have been kept busy since EAA has 240,000 members around the world that still need services, but they still want to get people back visiting them in Oshkosh and try and get some regular rhythms of life running again.
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