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Free COVID-19 drive-thru service community testing is now available at Appleton North High School, 5000 N. Ballard Rd., Appleton.

Gov. Tony Evers directed Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Andrea Palm to issue Emergency Order No. 3, limiting public gatherings to no more than 25 percent of a room or building’s total occupancy.

The City of Kaukauna held a ribbon cutting for the CE trail extension and Haas Road pedestrian accommodations on Sept. 29.

Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson said this project is one of the first constituent cases he had as a state legislator 13 years ago.

The City of Kaukauna Plan Commission approved a request for a special exemption permit allowing two residential dwellings at 105 W. Third St. in Kaukauna. Longtime city residents remember this building as Simon and Alan Cherkasky’s doctor’s office.

Sewers, particularly sanitary sewers, are something people ordinarily don’t like to think about but government leaders from the Heart of the Valley communities of Combined Locks, Kaukauna, Kimberly, Little Chute, and Darboy must think about it and the time is near to do something about the future of the Heart of the Valley Metropolitan Sewerage

When Highway CE was built, it was a country road leading from Downtown Appleton to Hollandtown, serving the south sides of Kimberly, Combined Locks and Kaukauna.

Now it’s turned into an incredibly busy urban highway carrying thousands of vehicles along that route every day.

The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin voted 2-1 last week to continue to stay a portion of its June 26 order, extending the moratorium on utility residential customer disconnections and refusal of service for nonpayment until Nov. 1.

Kaukauna voters told city officials in a referendum last fall by a 59-41 percent margin they wanted to split the positions of clerk and treasurer.

Susan J. Duda was clerk/treasurer beginning in 1988 until her 2018 retirement that led to the election of Sally Kenney as clerk/treasurer that year.

Gov. Tony Evers has declared a new public health emergency in Wisconsin due to recent surge in cases among young people and issued a new face coverings order effective immediately. Both orders are effective immediately and will expire after 60 days or with a subsequent superseding order.

The identity of the two people found dead on Sept. 21 in Little Chute have been identified as Elizabeth Wagner, 24 and Matthew Wagner, 25 of Little Chute.