Memorial Day weekend is almost here. On Sunday May 29, there will be an Appleton Cemetery Veteran Salute Tour starting at Riverside Cemetery at 12PM noon and ending at St. Mary Cemetery at 2PM. The salutes will include the placing of a memorial wreath, the […]
Category: Holidays
Arbor Day 2022 – Celebrating An Appleton Tree
Today is Arbor Day, so a perfect day to highlight a particular Appleton tree. In 1760, Daniel Boone purportedly, after killing a bear near Jonesborough TN, carved into a birch tree the inscription “D. Boon cilled a bar on tree in the year 1760”. This […]
Happy Easter
✝️Happy Easter✝️
Happy Easter
Today will be light on posts. I will be updating the Covid numbers if the city dashboard is updated, but I don’t know if it will be due to the holiday. For those readers who are celebrating the holiday I wish you a Happy Easter. […]
Happy New Year
The look on your face when you’ve lived through 2020. I hope you all had an enjoyable holiday. Here’s to 2021.
Crowded Mall Casts Doubts On People’s Dedication To Coronavirus Mitigation
Not being someone who leaves my Christmas shopping until the very last day possible, I had no reason to be by the mall today, but I was informed by someone who is a chronic Christmas present procrastinator that the Fox River Mall was quite crowded […]
Sparse Posts Over The Holiday
🎄 Posts will be sparse over the next couple days as I’ll be celebrating Christmas with my family. I hope you all have a Merry Christmas also. 🎄
Hmong Community Grateful For Hmong New Year Season Mayoral Proclamation
Mayor Woodford read his proclamation declaring September through December 2020 Hmong New Year Season at the 12/16/2020 Common Council meeting. A couple different members of the local Hmong community expressed appreciation for the gesture. Kou Vang from Hmong American Partnership appeared in person at the […]
Black Friday In The Year of Coronavirus
As per usual, I completely forgot that today was Black Friday. Let me assure you, large numbers of other people did not forget. Even a little after 5pm when I went to do my normal grocery shopping, Walmart was quite crowded. The parking lots at […]
Happy Thanksgiving
The day is blissfully peaceful. School closed. Government closed. No work being done. I don’t even have coronavirus numbers to report to you as, due to the holiday, Wednesday’s and Thursday’s numbers will be reported together on Friday. One only wishes government was always this […]