Neenah News

An Omro man accused of attacking two men with a knife in the town of Neenah is now facing criminal charges.

Ald. Mark Lange, who has served on the Common Council for the past 15 years, will not seek re-election in the spring.

NEENAH -Al Auxier, a 30-year veteran firefighter, has named chief of Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue.

A fourth candidate has emerged for the 2010 Neenah mayoral election. Tony Belling, 224 Washington Ave., filed his declaration of candidacy Tuesday.

NEENAH - Members of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church are being advised to stop payment on checks after the church was broken into Sunday night.

Officials plan to reconstruct the 100 and 200 blocks of W. Wisconsin Avenue in two phases next year to maintain traffic flow through the downtown during the project.

Authorities on Saturday night arrested an 18-year-old Winneconne man in a knife attack of two Menasha men outside some storage units on Tullar Road.

NEENAH - When he was growing up, Cody Kippenhan spent his summer months playing baseball.

MENASHA - For nearly 30 years, trucks loaded with biosolids have departed almost daily from the Neenah-Menasha sewage treatment plant at 101 Garfield Ave.

MENASHA - Gina Munig was specific in explaining the reasoning behind the "Day of the Dead" celebration at Menasha High School.

The head of the state Department of Administration on Wednesday blasted a report that indicated Wisconsin government may be heading toward fiscal peril.

Neenah High School will have a new principal next year as the school district reorganizes its administrative team effective July 1. Mark Duerwaechter, the school's principal since 1999, will become one of three central-office administrators reporting directly to Supt.

APPLETON - A domestic battery charge and others are pending against a 24-year-old Neenah man jailed early Tuesday after a woman was punched several times in a downtown parking lot.

With pending orders in more ample supply than they had been in recent months, executives with Alpharetta, Ga.-based Neenah Paper feel confident about the nation's economic turnaround.

The Board of Education has adopted a balanced budget for 2009-10 that requires a 7.3 percent increase in the tax levy.

GRAND CHUTE - A 51-year-old Neenah man suffered a head injury Sunday when he crashed his motorcycle on the southbound on-ramp to U.S. 41 at State 15.

NEENAH - The city's Recreation Park boat launch on Lake Winnebago will be closed until mid-December as contractors repair and improve the ramps and docks.

NEENAH - It's been a week to remember for the Neenah High School Vanguard Marching Band.

SEYMOUR - Two people injured when their all-terrain vehicle crashed early Sunday remained hospitalized later.

NEENAH - Lakeview Credit Union will present a free session on minimizing the impact of nursing home costs.