Collins News

Three crashes involving five vehicles on 1-43 northbound, north of the Manitowoc River, resulted in minor injuries Thursday evening, according to a news release from the Wisconsin State Patrol.

TWO RIVERS - The city will continue a more than 50-year tradition of having a municipal court, the City Council decided this evening.

Robert Frederick Collins Sr., 90, Ashwaubenon, died Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, at a local nursing home.

TWO RIVERS - The new board of the Lakeshore Humane Society is standing by the decision to stop accepting stray animals from Manitowoc County municipalities as of Jan.

"Take advantage of opportunities" is the mantra Jaci Collins preaches to the students in her Japanese and French classes at Lincoln High School.

Public safety officials are saying that Halloween doesn't typically cause too many problems in Manitowoc County, but parents and children still should be mindful of some basic precautions to avoid a scare.

The Sheboygan Rotary Concert Series will welcome world-renowned guitarist Daryl Stuermer and his newest project - Daryl Stuermer-Genesis Rewired - to the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts for a 7:30 p.m. show on Friday, Jan.

Mildred M. Olm, Reedsville, age 82, passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009. She was born on April 9, 1927, in Oconto, daughter of the late Joseph and Frances Bergeron.

John T. 'JT' Carroll Jr., 62, of 914 Weeping Willow Court, Wisconsin Rapids, died at home on Thursday, Oct.

MANITOWOC -- Here are five ideas for things to do in Manitowoc County this weekend.

Ralph Evenson, age 76, of 4024 Evergreen Lane, Chilton, passed away suddenly on Thursday morning, Sept.

COLLINS - Don Gilbertson loves to tinker with tractors. He's restored several antique tractors, some to near-mint condition.

REEDSVILLE - Reedsville FFA advisor Allen Schuh, along with Ellie Collins, Jordan Haelfrisch, Justin Schwahn and Robert O'Hearn of the Reedsville chapter attended the Sectional Leadership Workshop on Sept.

State Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer, D-Manitowoc, was stripped Friday of his chairmanship of the Assembly's Committee on Ways and Means by Speaker Mike Sheridan.

State Department of Natural Resources officials are denying permits for three retention ponds in the Fox Cities, two weeks before a deadline to receive about $1 million in federal stimulus grants.

The first lecture in the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point's College of Letters and Sciences lecture series begins tonight at 7 p.m. at the Portage County Library.

MANITOWOC - Manitowoc County municipal leaders will be meeting together and with county officials during the next four weeks to try to resolve concerns that delayed approval of the county's proposed $15 million Joint Dispatch Center.

MANITOWOC -- Here are five ideas for things to do in Manitowoc County this weekend.

TWO RIVERS - City officials are unhappy with the county's handling of changes to the Joint Dispatch Center agreements it has with the three cities in the county and its handling of a proposed upgrade for the center.

Arson was ruled out in a fire Saturday that started on the second story of an unoccupied, abandoned house on county Highway A at Carstens Lake Road, said Fred Koeppen, St.