Mayor’s Office Sends Out Press Release Indicating That Appleton Tax-Payers’ Portion Of The Library Project Remains Set At $26.4 Million

The Office of the Mayor has sent out a press release regarding the budget for the Library Project which reiterates that the taxpayer portion of the project remains set at $26.4 million. Per the press release, “the total building project cost is currently estimated at […]

Mayor Woodford Presents 4 Proclamations – High Schools DECA Week, Native American Heritage Month, Runaway And Homeless Youth Prevention Month, And Small Business Saturday

During the 11/03/2021 Common Council meeting, Mayor Jake Woodford presented four mayoral proclamations. The first proclaimed November 1-7, 2021 to be Appleton High Schools DECA Week. Mayor Woodford encouraged “residents, businesses, and organizations to become familiar with the services and benefits offered by Appleton’s high […]

Mayor Woodford To Present 6 Proclamations At 10/06/2021 Common Council Meeting – Mental Health Day, Coming Out Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day, White Cane Awareness Day, Fire Prevention Week, and Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Mayor Woodford will be presenting 6 mayoral proclamations at the 10/06/2021 Common Council meeting. In the first, Mayor Woodford proclaims October 10, 2021 to be Mental Health Day in Appleton and reminds “residents of available community resources to help take care of their own mental […]

Mayor Proclaims September 15 – October 15 To Be Hispanic Heritage Month In Appleton

During the 09/15/2021 Common Council meeting Mayor Woodford noted that on Saturday, 09/11/2021, he had attended an event at Pierce Park where he had presented the Hispanic Heritage Month proclamation. In other years, this would have been Latinofest, but this year Casa Hispana reimagined it […]

Mayor Woodford Presents 5 Proclamations At 09/01/2021 Common Council Meeting – Senior Center Month, Childhood Cancer Month, Hmong New Year, Arts In Education Week, and September 11 Remembrance Day

On 09/01/2021 during the Common Council meeting, Mayor Woodford presented 5 mayoral proclamations. In the first, he proclaimed September to be “Senior Center Month” and encouraged “all citizens to recognize the important contributions of senior centers in the Fox Cities.” In the second he proclaimed […]

Mayor Woodford Proclaims August 2021 To Be Breastfeeding Awareness Month In Appleton

Last week during the Common Council meeting, Mayor Woodford presented one proclamation in which he proclaimed the month of August, 2021 to be Breastfeeding Awareness Month in Appleton and encouraged “citizens to join healthcare and breastfeeding advocates in celebrating and promoting awareness of the benefits […]

Mayor To Present Two Proclamations – Parks and Recreation Month and Children’s Week In Appleton

Tonight at the 07/21/2021 Common Council meeting, Mayor Jake Woodford will be presenting two proclamations. In the first, he proclaims the month of July 2021 to be Parks and Recreation Month in Appleton and urges “all citizens to join with other communitites in recognizing that […]

A Response To The Social Media Furor Over The Report That AASD Educator And Wife Of Appleton’s Mayor Signed The Zinn Education Project’s “Pledge To Teach The Truth”

I find that when there is social media upheaval it’s sometimes best to pause, not respond in the moment, and take some time before proceeding. When I published the post highlighting the fact that Hilary Haskell, an AASD educator and the wife of Appleton’s mayor […]

Name Of AASD Teacher And Wife Of Mayor Woodford Appears On Zinn Education Project Pledge

The Facebook page Blueprints For Excellence-Reform Appleton Area School District broke the news that Hilary Haskell an AASD educator and wife of Appleton’s mayor Jake Woodford is listed as a signer of the Zinn Education Project’s “Pledge To Teach The Truth”. The writers of the […]

Mayor Woodford’s Opening Statement At Informal Organizational Meeting–“The community looks to us for leadership, and I don’t know that we’re always showing them that. And I think we need to.”

The Common Council held an Informal Organizational Meeting on 06/15/2021. Because it was an informal meeting, they didn’t have an invocation, but Mayor Woodford did take the opportunity to make a statement which, although not mentioning any specific situation, did appear to at least in […]