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New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
Improved internet access tops list for how Outagamie County can spend federal COVID recovery funds
APPLETON POST CRESCENT
APPLETON - Roughly 80 leaders from the nonprofit, business, collegiate and local towns and villages of Outagamie County have identified high-speed internet as a top priority for spending $36.8 million in federal COVID-19 recovery funds by the end of 2024.
"If you do not have access to high-speed internet, it is comparable to not having road or water access," said Kara Homan, the county's land services director during a recent finance committee meeting to discuss priorities in how to spend American Rescue Plan Act Funds.....
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New North Region Stepping Up to the COVID-19 Challenge
Deadline for Outagamie County relief grants extended
WLUK
APPLETON -- There's still time for small businesses in Outagamie County to apply for COVID-19 pandemic relief grants.
The county has extended the deadline for its Phase One Rescue Plan Grants to Sept. 30. The previous deadline was Sept. 9.
“While we’ve received applications from a variety of businesses and areas in the county, we want to make sure all have an opportunity to apply,” Outagamie County Board Chair Jeff Nooyen said in a news release. “The County decided to extend the date to be sure that we are reaching all businesses in Outagamie County that may need help as quickly as possible.”...
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Expansion and Business Development in the New North
Skogen family to acquire last independently owned Festival Foods, in New London
APPLETON POST CRESCENT
NEW LONDON – The Skogen family will soon acquire the last Festival Foods location it does not already own.
Skogen’s Festival Foods announced in a news release Monday plans to purchase the Festival Foods store at 308 N. Shawano St. in New London. The store, which is the only remaining Festival Foods in Wisconsin not owned by the Skogen family, will officially change hands Oct. 15...
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Attract, Develop and Retain Diverse Talent
Her cup of tea: FVTC business program for veterans changing lives, including one who discovered the American Dream
SPECTRUM NEWS 1
APPLETON — The girl with the big ideas and insatiable curiosity was trapped.
The direction Fanni Xie saw her life going and what the Chinese government had in store for her were a couple of galaxies apart. Xie wanted to explore, see different places, experience new things.
But she was locked in her middle-school classroom in Shenyang, China every day from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. This included weekends and holidays. Competition, for grades and approval, was NFL-level.
She was fed a steady diet of math and physics, but she was more of a right-brain kid....
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Promoting the Regional Brand
Two Wisconsin beers (one from Shawano) won medals at this year's Great American Beer Festival. Here's where you can get them.
GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE
Two Wisconsin beers won medals at the 35th Great American Beer Festival.
Sweet Peel from Stubborn Brothers Brewery in Shawano earned a gold medal in the American Wheat Beer category. It's the brewery's first GABF medal and the first time entering the contest. Aaron Gilling and Erik Gilling opened the brewpub in June 2020 after three and a half years of renovating the historic Crescent Theater...
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