Encourage Educational Attainment
Capital Credit Union opens 2023 scholarship applications
CAPITAL CREDIT UNION
GREEN BAY – Capital Credit Union is now accepting applications for its Tom Young Educational Scholarship. This year, the credit union will award $2,500 to 10 upcoming high school graduates who are members of Capital CU and pursuing higher education in the Fall of 2023. Applicants are evaluated using a rating system that emphasizes Capital CU’s mission of “Doing the Right Thing” through academic success, community service, and volunteering.
The Tom Young Educational Scholarship is named after Capital Credit Union’s former President and CEO. As current President and CEO, Laurie Butz is excited to continue the tradition and further invest in Capital CU’s young members.... Read More 1> Promoting the Regional Brand
Get your tickets today for the Greater Green Bay Chamber Future 15 Awards
GREATER GREEN BAY CHAMBER Join Current Young Professionals, a program of the Greater Green Bay Chamber, to celebrate this year's Future 15 finalists and honor the Young Professional of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Next Generation Best Place to Work. Registration closes on Monday, Feb. 20 at 12 p.m....
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Innovative educator Frank Braun named to lead College of Business at UW Oshkosh
UW OSHKOSH
Following a nationwide search, experienced academic leader Frank Braun will begin work Jan. 17, as the new dean of the College of Business at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. Braun currently serves as a professor in the School of Business at the University of Arkansas–Little Rock, where he also served as dean of the College of Business, Health and Human Services ...Economic Development Feature
Coal company relocation could take several years
NBC 26 GREEN BAY — It has been nearly a year since Brown County received a $15 million state grant to possibly relocate the C. Reiss Coal Company to the former Pulliam Power Plant site at the mouth of the Fox River. Towers of coal have been sitting along the Fox River near the area of the Mason Street Bridge in Green Bay for decades...
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Oconto uses virtual welders to introduce middle school students to career
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
OCONTO - Oconto Middle School students will have a chance to explore new career opportunities as they try their hand at welding. The Oconto Unified School District purchased a MobileArc Augmented Reality Welding System and Prusa i3 3D printers as part of a $20,000 technology makeover made possible through Leap for Learning, a new technology makeover program offered by the Green Bay Packers and UScellular and partially funded by a grant from the NFL Foundation. ..Read More 5>
Attract, Develop and Retain Diverse Talent
Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation revives Ag Career Days, farm career-exploration experience for students
WIS BUSINESS KEWAUNEE COUNTY – Ag Career Days, a two-day, farm career-exploration experience for all seventh- and eighth-grade students from five Northeast Wisconsin school districts, returns on April 18-19, 2023, at Pagel’s Ponderosa Dairy farm in Kewaunee.
Presented by the Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation (KCEDC), the free event is expected to draw roughly 900 students from the Algoma, Denmark, Kewaunee, Luxemburg-Casco and Southern Door school districts. Parochial and home-schooled students are invited to participate...Read More 6>
Expansion and Business Development in the New North
State of De Pere highlights city's continued economic growth
NBC 26
DE PERE — Government, business, and educational leaders from around the city gathered Wednesday afternoon at St. Norbert College for the state of the De Pere event to highlight key achievements in 2022 and look ahead to what's to come for the city in 2023.
Executive Director of Definitely De Pere, Tina Quigley, said that the downtown district received more than eight million dollars in private investments this year and saw 15 new business openings...
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Economic Development Feature
City of Oshkosh helping with home repairs and purchases
WFRV
OSHKOSH – On Wednesday, City of Oshkosh officials highlighted some of the assistance programs they offer to residents looking to either buy a new home or improve their current one.
Over 100 people attended the presentation at the Oshkosh Convention Center. One of those people was Mauricio Marin.... Read More 8> Economic Development Feature
DCEDC unveils 2023-2025 Strategic Plan
DOOR COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP.
DCEDC leadership created a strategic planning committee at the end of 2021 to form the framework toward the organization's 2023-2025 Strategic Plan. During the summer of 2022, an investor listening tour was conducted to ensure that this strategic plan was formed with our stakeholders' most critical needs in mind.
DCEDC's work for the next three years will be focused on the four strategic pillars listed here...
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Here are 3 ways Delta, Frontier airlines will expand flights, service out of Green Bay airport this spring
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
ASHWAUBENON - Business and leisure travelers can expect more opportunities to fly out of Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport beginning in February.
The service upgrades come after passenger traffic into and out of the airport increased 14.2% in 2022, with an average of 90% of seats on departures from Green Bay sold, said Marty Piette, the airport's director....
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Inspiring the next generation of firefighters
NBC 26
HOWARD-SUAMICO — Local fire departments are fighting fires and fighting staffing shortages.
"We're struggling to even get applicants. Where we used to have a large pool of applicants, now it's much less," Howard Fire Department Assistant Fire Chief Ann Watzka said...
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Winter fever? Here are six Door County community festivals and special events in February
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
DOOR COUNTY - After a November and December filled with community holiday celebrations and a typically quiet January, February brings the return of outdoor festivals and things to do in Door County.
They're events put on by local community and business associations to get people out and about and having fun with friends in the middle of these gray months, whether they're residents trying to shake that winter fever or visitors looking for a reason to spend a day or two or more on the Peninsula...
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