Hometown Broadcasting News Wednesday 12/29/21
29 December 2021 News
Appleton Woman And Unborn Child Killed In Waupaca County Accident
A 26-year-old Appleton woman and her unborn child were killed and three South Milwaukee residents were injured when two passenger cars crashed head-on last Thursday morning on U.S. Highway 10 westbound near Reek Road in Waupaca County. The State Patrol says Genesis Stanton was heading east in her Chevy Malibu when she collided with a westbound Mini Cooper that was passing a semi. The two vehicles then hit the front driver side of the semi. Stanton and her unborn child died at ThedaClark Regional Medical Center in Neenah. The three South Milwaukee residents were also taken there with non-life threatening injuries. The semi driver wasn’t hurt in the crash which happened just before 9:30 Thursday morning.
Two Injured In Waupaca County Crash
The drivers of two vehicles were injured during a head-on crash in Waupaca County Tuesday evening. The Sheriff’s Office got a call at 5:16 pm about the two-vehicle crash. It happened on State Highway 45 about a mile north of County Highway D in the Town of Lebanon. A southbound car lost control and collided with a northbound minivan. The two drivers were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. They were the only people in their vehicles.
Fox Crossing Man Charged With Hiding A Corpse
Winnebago County prosecutors have charged a 44-year-old Fox Crossing man suspected of hiding a corpse after a drug overdose. Erik Averbeck is charged with hiding a corpse and is being held in the Winnebago County Jail on a $20,000 cash bond. He has a preliminary hearing tomorrow. According to the criminal complaint on December 15th a Fox Crossing detective was contacted by the Department of Corrections about word going round about the overdose death of a woman on Fatima Street. The DOC and police executed a search warrant at the home in the Village of Fox Crossing and found a woman’s body wrapped in a tarp in the basement. Averbeck, who was at the home, told DOC officers he found the victim the night before. He admitted he wrapped the body in the tarp. Averbeck said he was living at the home with another woman when he found the body in the basement. An autopsy determined the woman died of an overdose and there was fentanyl present in her body.
New COVID Guidance
Fond du Lac County Health Department has updated guidance to align with the new recommendations from the CDC regarding COVID-19 isolation and quarantine for the general population. Updated Isolation Guidance if you test positive for COVID-19 regardless of vaccination status requires you stay home for 5 days and if you have no symptoms or your symptoms are resolving after 5 days, you can leave your house. Continue to wear a well-fitting mask around others for 5 additional says. If you have a fever continue to stay home until your fever resolves. Following an exposure to COVID-19, everyone regardless of vaccination status should get tested for COVID-19 on day 5, if possible, after exposure.
Highway Maintenance In Winnebago County Today
Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation tells us maintenance crews will be working on State Highway 441 and I-41 in Winnebago County today. Maintenance crews will be repairing guardrail on southbound State Highway 441 at Midway Road from 8 am to 4 pm. Various lanes will be closed during repairs. Crews will also be repairing median barriers on southbound and northbound I-41 between County Highway II and County Highway BB from 8 am to 3 pm. The left lanes will be closed during repairs.
Christmas Tree Disposal Dates Announced In Oshkosh
The City of Oshkosh Sanitation Division has set the dates for residential curbside Christmas tree collection. They will take place on the regularly scheduled garbage collection day the weeks of January 3rd through January 7th and January 17th through January 21st. Trees must be removed from plastic bags. Place trees on the terrace or driveway apron, no later than 7 am on your scheduled garbage collection day. Artificial or flocked trees will not be collected. Residents are asked to remove all decorations, lights and the tree stand. Trees must not be buried by snow.
Boys & Girls Club Services Continue To Serve The Area Well
The Boys & Girls Club of the Tri-County area has been through a couple of challenging years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Ashley Bartol of the Club says they offer a variety of programming at their sites in Berlin and Green Lake, which are designed to appeal to the children they cater their services to. She says 2020 was particularly challenging during the initial days of the pandemic, but they continued to provide services both virtually and providing food to families in the area. A recent court decision will allow the owner of the Republican House in Ripon to sell the property to the Boys & Girls Club, which will allow them to build a state-of-the-art facility on the site.
Ripon Habitat Build At the Mercy Of Building Supplies
The Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac County says a house building project in Ripon is at the mercy of the building supply industry like every project across the country. The walls on the home at the corner of Joy Avenue and Metomen Street went up earlier this month and Habitat officials were hoping the build could be completed by the end of the year. But Katie Karls says the windows they needed for the home won’t be available for a couple of months so the home won’t be complete until late February or early March. She says a single mother with one child will be moving in early next spring when the home is complete. Although this is Habitat’s fifth build in Ripon overall it is there 33rd build across the county over the years.
Battle Over Sheltered Workplaces
Congressman Glenn Grothman says he’s continuing to fight to protect sheltered work places like Diverse Options in Ripon, Brooke Industries in Fond du Lac, Green Valley Enterprises in Beaver Dam. He says there are people in the government that want to shut down places that provide jobs for people of different abilities who aren’t paid highly, but are provided a means of income and the self-reliance that goes with it. He says he will continue to battle for sheltered work places many of which have been providing employment for over 40 years.
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