I have been trying to get to the bottom of why School Superintendent Baseman told a parent back in November that the Appleton Area School District would only be using confirmed cases to calculate burden and trajectory numbers but is now including probable cases when […]
Coronavirus Numbers For 03/30/2021
On 03/30/2021 Appleton recorded 11 confirmed coronavirus cases and 2 new probable cases. Active cases decreased by 5 to 179. Cases out of isolation increased by 18 to 8,108. Deaths remained unchanged at 63.
Finance Committee Approves Library Design and Engineering Contract With SOM
The City of Appleton Finance Committee met 03/08/2021 to award a design and engineering services contract for the Appleton Public Library to Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). The city had only included $2.4 million in the 2021 budget for these services, but the contract was […]
Coronavirus Numbers For 03/29/2021
Coronavirus numbers of 03/29/2021. 15 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 2 new probable cases. Active cases remained unchanged at 184. Cases out of isolation increased by 17 to 8,090. There were no new deaths. We’ve now gone over 4 weeks with no new deaths. The […]
Downtown Appleton BLM Mural Impacted By Building Renovations
Well, that was short lived. The BLM mural on the corner of College Avenue and Appleton Street was completed in June of 2020 and by February of 2021 windows were being added to wall on which the mural was painted. By March, the building renovations […]
Safety And Licensing Committee Votes To Approve Updating The International Fire Code Used By Fire Department To 2018 Version
Appleton’s Safety and Licensing Committee met 03/24/2021. After denying a request for an alcohol operator’s license and voting to approve a resolution that would ban the sale of cats and dogs by pet stores, they moved on to the “Request from the Appleton Fire Department […]
Coronavirus Numbers For 03/28/2021
On 03/28/2021 Appleton recorded 0 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 1 new probable case. Active cases decreased by 1 to 184. Cases out of isolation increased by 2 to 8,073. There were no new deaths. We have now gone 28 days, 4 full weeks, without […]
A Week Of Repose
We have a delightfully empty week ahead of us with no city committee or Common Council meetings scheduled. The next committee meeting is not scheduled until April 6. Government is best when it’s doing less. This week will hopefully give me a chance to catch […]
Safety And Licensing Committee Approves Resolution Banning The Sale Of Cats And Dogs By Pet Stores
On 03/24/2021 Appleton’s Safety and Licensing Committee took up Resolution #3-R-21 “Prohibition on Large Scale Commercial Dog and Cat Breeding”. This resolution was submitted by Alderpersons Maiyoua Thao (District 7), Denise Fenton (District 6), and Vered Meltzer (District 2) and states that “no pet store […]
Coronavirus Numbers For 03/27/2021
On 03/27/2021 Appleton recorded 9 new confirmed coronavirus cases and 3 new probable cases. Active cases rose by 8 to 185. Cases out of isolation increased by 4 to 8,071. We are now on day 27 of no new deaths. As of 03/27/2021 11.09% of […]