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Report: Green Bay on list of Midwest cities for high salaries, low cost of living
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GREEN BAY (NBC 26) — Green Bay has made a list of 10 best cities for high salaries and low cost of living in the Midwest. The list was published by the Ascent, a personal finance website by The Motley Fool.
According to a news release, the Ascent analyzed cost-of-living data from The Council for Community and Economic Research’s most recent Cost of Living Index — which measures the costs of groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, healthcare, and miscellaneous goods and services — along with expenditure data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and income figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Green Bay ranked number 10 on the list, with an estimated income-to-expense ratio of 1.159. According to the Ascent, Green Bay's cost of living estimate is $56,102 and its median household income is $65,026...
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Economic Development Feature
Kewaunee County housing study confirms need for development and growth
WBAY
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - For the first time Kewaunee County conducted a housing study that has revealed the demand for single-family homes and other development. The county said the housing study, in partnership with Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission, is a way to confirm what many people saw as a setback in the area: the need for housing, in particular single-family homes, senior living units, and rentals.
“The more development, that means that’s more property tax base, which therefore reduces peoples’ property taxes because we have more people paying in,” said Scott Feldt, Kewaunee County Administrator.
Right now, nearly 90% of housing units in the county are occupied and two-thirds of the people living in them are 50 years or older. The study creates an open conversation or options moving forward...
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Celebrating Black History Month: NWTC academic coach talks overcoming adversity
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GREEN BAY (NBC26) — "Adversity doesn't build character. It reveals it," said Wayne Walker, Assessment and Academic Coaching Manager at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. "So it's not what happens to you, but how you react to what's happening to you, and I would share that with anyone."
Walker shares that message almost every day. The Antigua native spent the first half of his life in the Carribbean, where almost everyone looked just like him.
"I never grew up really having to worry about race and all these different things that people who grew up in America had to worry about," he said.
Walker came to the U.S. to pursue a career in basketball; he played at UW Green Bay and professionally. Later, he started coaching young players...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Johnsonville Project Aided by Alliant Partnership
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Partnerships between local and state economic developers and Alliant Energy were credited by the regional energy company with nurturing growth of $326.4 million and 730 new jobs in Wisconsin last year. Among the ten projects listed was a grid expansion that will enable Johnsonville to produce more of its fully-cooked sausage products in Sheboygan.
The rural Sheboygan County sausage maker that’s based northeast of Plymouth is expected to begin adapting the former Wigwam Mills facility in Sheboygan for sausage production this year, and full operations are expected in 2022. The expansion will add 75 well-paying jobs in the community...
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Howard board approves 201-unit housing development
Fox Cities Chamber
HOWARD – A planned development district (PDD) to create a 26.73-acre, multi-use housing development along Woodland Road with 201 units received final approval Jan. 25 by the village board.
The project known as Toonen Woodland Hills....
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Bruemmer Park Zoo getting a new exhibit made possible by generous donation match
WBAY
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Bruemmer Park Zoo in Kewaunee County is getting a new exhibit, an investment of $300,000.
The Bruemmer family has given the park a $100,000 and the county and Zoological Society of Kewaunee County are each matching that amount.
“We’re really excited, we’ve been working on this for a long time, our first phase was to take care of the animals that we had already here, give them new exhibits, new fencing, and we’ve done that part,” said Pam Zander, President of the Zoological Society of Kewaunee County.
The money will go towards a new exhibit that will feature colorful ornamental pheasants...
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Leadership in the New North
Progress Lakeshore names new leader
Insight Publications
Progress Lakeshore has named Jamie Zastrow as its new executive director.
Zastrow comes to the role from the Manitowoc County Homebuilders Association, where she was executive officer. She has experience in building membership, developing and maintaining relationships, and developing projects that benefit the community.
Before working with the MCHA, Zastrow was director of Mainly Manitowoc for six years.
Once Zastrow starts her job later this month, she says she plans to meet with individual business and community leaders in her first 30 days...
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