Kimberly News

APPLETON - Nine hundred food lovers arrived early Thursday for the Taste of Home Cooking School, primed and ready to stay late sampling snacks, checking out exhibits and learning to make new recipes.

Fall enrollment counts are a mixed bag for Fox Valley school districts, with Kimberly continuing to grow, several districts holding stable or up slightly, and most declining.

As he used to do in that other life, when the world still made sense, Tony Bednarowski of Darboy rises at 4:50 every morning, checks his e-mail, takes a shower, eats breakfast and drives to work.

Wisconsin's paper industry produces everything from cardboard to newsprint, and it has long been one of the state's signature industries.

KIMBERLY - Officials cited community cooperation as key toward securing funding for an underpass that should soon offer a safe pedestrian route beneath a busy Outagamie County CE.

KIMBERLY - Computer applications teacher Aimee Froze believes updated technology in the classroom is crucial in preparing students for the future.

With the presidential election approaching, one issue looms above all others. "Junk," said unemployed paper worker Jeff Jansen of Kimberly, neatly summing up the state of the economy.

A mass rally will take place on the steps of the Wisconsin state capitol building Thursday, Oct.

WASHINGTON - Appleton, a papermaker for more than 100 years, is in the fight of its life against unfair competition from foreign companies selling their products at artificially low prices, two governors, five ...

While the stock markets plunged Monday and rebounded Tuesday after the failed bailout bill vote in the House of Representatives, financial institutions here saw little ripple effect.

Confused about the campaign? As is the usual drill in the fall, the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley has come out with its short course lineup.

The issue of conference realignment might be back on the table for Menasha High School and its Bluejay athletics teams.

Democrat Justin Krueger and Republican incumbent Al Ott are squaring off for control of an Assembly district embattled by the shutdown of the Kimberly paper mill.

KIMBERLY - U.S. Oil plans to build a multimillion-dollar facility in the village to house its new headquarters, the company announced last week.

Birthdays are special for all children, but when Elena Welhouse turned 4 recently, it was cause for celebration.

The heavy-antlered buck hanging on the den wall, the pheasant flying over the fireplace, the musky lunging across the cabin doorway.

How nervous does the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank make you? Very.

Nearly two weeks have passed since the NewPage mill in Kimberly went silent. Though the closure put 600 people out of work, the community and surrounding municipalities also fell victim to the ripple effect of ...

KIMBERLY - Last week's NewPage shutdown has not stopped workers from continuing to push for the mill's sale or reopening.

A Kimberly man has been charged in the November armed robbery of a Kimberly pharmacy when he allegedly made off with 207 narcotic pain pills.