Hometown Broadcasting News Wednesday 11/27/19
27 November 2019 News
Sex Offender Released In Oshkosh
A 50-year-old sex offender is moving to Oshkosh today. Xeng Lee is being released from the Kenosha County Detention Center and will be living at 1105 A Jefferson Street in Oshkosh. He will be on electronic monitoring. He was convicted in January of 2005 of two counts of first degree sexual assault of a child, child enticement, and soliciting a child for prostitution. His victims were 12 and 17-year-old girls.
Beaver Dam Sentenced For Threatening Police
A 41-year-old Beaver Dam man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of extended supervision for two incidents in which police were called after he had loud altercations with neighbors. Dale Lengling was drunk and belligerent during both incidents in May and June and threatened the officers that arrested him. While out on bond between the two incidents he consumed alcohol in violation of bond conditions. Lengling was sentenced in Dodge County court Tuesday on two counts of battery or threat to a law enforcement officer and bail jumping.
Ripon Leaf Pick Up Ends
The city of Ripon ended its leaf pick up on Monday. Public Works Director Mike Ehrenberg explained to the Common Council that evening that with snow storms on the way they needed to switch their equipment for snow removal. He says their priority has to be to keeps the streets clear of snow and safe for children, families and visitors to the city. Any leaves that were left on street terraces are the responsibility of the person who put them there.
County Office Closings For Thanksgiving
If you have business with a city or county after Thanksgiving you might want to call ahead. A number of them will be closed Thursday and Friday so there employees can celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday. Such is the case in Fond du Lac, Green Lake, and Waushara counties. In addition to County offices in Green Lake County Fox River Industries will also be closed those days and in Fond du Lac County the Moraine Lakes Consortium Call Center.
Ripon Public Library Makes Most Of The Space It Has
Officials with the Ripon Public Library are hoping they can use money from the sales of the Library Wonders calendars to build up funds to do the most with the space they have. Mandy Sprague is the Adult and Teen Services Librarian. She says they have some space in the fiction section between the children’s side and the one for teens and adults that could be used. “You know wouldn’t it kind of be a cool idea if we could kind of expand that space so there was kind of a gathering space between the children’s side and the adult’s side creating a connection rather than a division.” Sprague says they would like to attract more life-long learners and this may be one way of doing it. She says they do entertainment, but also have educational components and it is done through plays, a toy library, games that can be checked out, maker space items and the space in the middle could be more valuable if they make the most of it.
Congressman Grateful
As people gather for Thanksgiving to give thanks for their blessings Congressman Glenn Grothman says he’s grateful to be living in the U.S.A. in particular in the state of Wisconsin. “Despite what you hear in the news and that sort of thing we are the envy of the world. Everybody is trying to get here we don’t have to fundamentally change America at all we just have to keep going with the Constitution we’ve had for over the last 200 years and so I’m grateful to be an American and in particular an American in Wisconsin which is the nicest state.” The federal lawmaker from Glenbeulah says whether you’ve spent time traveling around the country or around the world you realized how lucky we are to be in Wisconsin.
Picking Your Own Christmas Tree
With the Thanksgiving holiday weekend nearly upon us some will take the opportunity to pick up a real Christmas tree. Curt Kindschuh is the owner of the Old Baldy Christmas Tree Farm. It’s located in the Brownsville area. He says the next few weekends are their big weekends. He says if you’re going with a real tree this season you can’t go wrong with a Fraser Fir. “Definitely the Fraser Fir are a very, very popular tree. I personally like the Blue Spruce I like that nice natural blue-type color that the tree has got. Now we have four different types of trees. We got Fraser Firs, Blue Spruce, White Spruce and Balsam Firs. The Frasers are definitely the most popular.” He says the Fraser Firs have good needle retention and a good natural shape. His tree farm is a cut-your-own farm with over two miles of hiking trails. Kindschuh says they are all about giving people a good experience and their prices are fair. They are located at W6279 County Road F in Brownsville and the Old Baldy Christmas Tree Farm has a Facebook page.
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