The Sheboygan area’s two major healthcare providers announced plans to gradually reintroduce normal operations.
Local testing capabilities improve
Following updated guidelines from state health experts, local healthcare providers report an increase in coronavirus testing capabilities.
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-designee Andrea Palm says the state is encouraging expanded testing.
County admin sees hopeful trend but more testing needed
SHEBOYGAN – The County Board completed its reorganization in theater audience mode Tuesday.
Meeting in the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Sheboygan campus Fine Arts Theater for the second straight week in order to achieve proper social distancing, the board approved standing committee assignments and organized the committees.
At-home education: What has it really been like?
Students missing their friends, classmates and teachers, spending long stretches in front of a computer screen and craving more live, online instruction not only to help them with assignments, but also just to make some human connection.
Fire department improvises
Bond market move saves $225,000
SHEBOYGAN – The coronavirus emergency saved the county several percentage points on the interest rate for its latest borrowing.
The County Board, meeting Tuesday via teleconference during the state’s shelter-in-place order, approved a $4.75 million bond sale at an interest rate of 1.9 percent to finance items in the county’s five-year capital improvement plan.
Local printer creates 150,000+ face shields
Over the past month, Sheboygan-based commercial print provider Franzen Graphics, known nationally for the production of point-of-purchase displays and high-volume printing, has engineered and converted a portion of their facility to the production of protective face shields. This effort comes amid a national outcry for personal protective equipment (PPE) by healthcare and front-line workers deemed essential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prisons confront special COVID-19 challenges
One inmate has been tested for the coronavirus at the Kettle Moraine Correctional Institution in Plymouth, according to authorities. The test returned negative.
Drive-in services offer a smile, a wave, and a new form of hope and connection
For Trinity United Methodist Church in Waldo, offering drive-in services has been an ongoing experiment in finding an uplifting – if imperfect – new way to worship in a changed world.
The small congregation banded together to quickly put in place the technology, logistics and advertising necessary to offer its first outdoor, drive-in service at 9:30 a.m. on Palm Sunday.
Sheriff’s office trains to process undocumented criminals
The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department is preparing to train deputies to hasten the deportation process of undocumented individuals incarcerated at county facilities.
