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(Oshkosh) EAA Aviation Museum attendees can take a trip back in time to airports from the early days of air travel, as Pioneer Airport reopens for the 2024 season tomorrow. Pioneer Airport will be open from 10:30 am to 4:30 pm on Saturdays and Sundays only until Memorial Day, when it will be open daily through Labor Day. Pioneer Airport is included with paid museum admission. More than 50 vintage airplanes are on display across seven hangars. The airplanes are from a variety of eras ranging from the 1920s to the early 1970s.

The summer season kicks off this weekend with the Fondy Food Truck Festival at Lakeside Park. John Papenheim with Friends of Lakeside Park says the event will feature 36 food trucks on Oven Island, plus music, and other family activities. The Festival runs from 11am to 5pm Sunday on Oven Island at Lakeside Park. Papenheim says a second Food Truck Festival will be held in September.

FOND DU LAC – Brianna St. Louis, of Fond du Lac, has won the $50,000 Agnesian HealthCare Foundation’s Samaritan Cash Raffle grand prize. Nearly 3,800 tickets were sold in this year’s raffle with the cash raffle raising approximately $120,000. All money raised by the foundation stays local. ...

The official shooter for the Bago Big Bet event presented by Mercury Racing, Tom Leigh is teaming up with speedonthewater.com on an auction item for the inaugural event. The highest bidder during the June 20-23 happening will receive a 30-x-50-inch metal print of his or her boat in action during the Saturday poker run on Lake Winnebago.

The end of the spring semester is in sight at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, and what better way to celebrate than Bye Gosh Fest 2024!. The student-focused event Thursday put on by Reeve Union Board, featured the headliners Hot Chelle Rae and Chase Matthew at Kolf Lot 13. Besides...

Byron WI, May 22, 2024- The Byron Historical Society, along with historical societies at Lomira, Theresa and Slinger, is hosting a Yellowstone Trail Day on Saturday, June 1,. 2024 from 9 am to 3 pm. The event is open to travelers journeying on the historic Yellowstone Trail route from Slinger to Byron with stops at each historical society. This day on the road, for adventurers with vehicles old or new, is designed as a hop-on, hop-off event. Visitors can begin their journey at any of the historical societies for free Yellowstone Trail tour guides to landmarks along the route. Historical exhibits from this bygone era of road travel will also be featured. Event locations are: Byron Town Hall, N3097 Highway 175, Byron; Silver Leaf School at Sterr Park, Pleasant Hill Avenue, Lomira; Solomon Juneau House, 201 S. Milwaukee St., Theresa; and Slinger Historical Museum, 414 Kettle Moraine Drive South, Slinger. Now known as Highway 175, the Yellowstone Trail dates back to 1912 with the promotion of a route from Boston to Seattle for early automobile tourists to travel cross country to Yellowstone National Park. The road was marked along the way with yellow stones to guide travelers. Known as “A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget.

OSHKOSH – A historic World War II bomber is coming back home. The EAA Aviation Museum is set to welcome back another piece of World War history May 23 when the B-17 Aluminum Overcast moves to the Eagle Hangar for display. EAA Communications Specialist Drew Stephani confirmed the move via news release as the...

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Tributes are pouring in for Matthew “Matt” Francis Miller

Yellowstone Trail Day Scheduled for Saturday, June 1 The Byron Historical Society, along with historical societies at Lomira, Theresa and Slinger, is hosting a Yellowstone Trail Day on Saturday, June 1, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is open to travelers journeying on the historic Yellowstone Trail route from Slinger to Byron with stops at each historical society. The Yellowstone Trail was.

Photo: Shawn Fisher (left), Agnesian HealthCare Foundation executive director, presents the Samaritan Cash Raffle grand prize to Brianna St. Louis, a Fond du Lac resident. Brianna St. Louis is the winner of the $50,000 grand prize in this year’s Fond du Lac Agnesian HealthCare Foundation’s annual Samaritan Cash Raffle. St. Louis was working in the SSM Health Cardiovascular lab when her name was drawn Wednesday as the big winner. “I forgot about the drawing. I was just finishing up a procedure when a bunch of my co-workers ran in to tell me I had to go, and they weren’t joking,” St. Louis told WFDL news. St. Louis has worked at St. Agnes Hospital for 11 years and says has participated in the cash raffle every year. She says she participates because the proceeds go to a great cause…the SSM Health Samaritan Clinic-providing health care to 500 underinsured patients annually. St. Louis says she has never had that much money at one time and is not sure what she is going to do with her winnings, other than to pay off her car. Other prize winners include: Second prize, $10,000: Anne Kirk, Berlin Third prize, $5,000: Kathy Gravelle, Fond du Lac Fourth & Fifth prizes, $2,500: Lynn Wellens, Fond du Lac; Dawn Freund, Fond du Lac Sixth to 10th prizes, $1,000: Deborah Ashenfelter, Fond du Lac; Diane Retzlaff, Randolph; Jamie Neuman, Fond du Lac; Barb Justman, Mayville; Whitney Nimmer, Fond du Lac 11th to 20th prizes, $500: Amanda Saegert, Brownsville; Jim Paulson, Fond du Lac; Sherri VandeStreek, Waupun; Charleen Roen, Fond du Lac; Kim Veley, North Fond du Lac; Theresa Eimerman, Fond du Lac; Paul Schmitz, New Holstein; Shelli Milbrath, St. Cloud; Elizabeth Wulff, Fond du Lac; Kathy Standke, Pardeeville. Nearly 3,800 tickets were sold in this year’s raffle with the cash raffle raising approximately $120,000. The Samaritan Cash Raffle was assisted by many sponsors, including the Baker Family Foundation, Bristol Morgan Bank, Fond du Lac County Medical Society, Michels Corporation, National Exchange Bank Foundation, Quest Interiors, Shea Electric & Communications, LLC, Dr. Nathan & Jenni Slinde, and Society Insurance.

The prospect of seeing 10,000-15,000 blooming tulips is one reason to hit up the Paine Art Center’s annual Festival of Spring on May 18 in Oshkosh. But not the only one. For a single day, the grounds surrounding this art museum inside a Tudor revival mansion are transformed into a spring Shangri-La, with vendors selling everything from plants (by the thousands) to arts and crafts.

Campbellsport Public Library Opens Story Walk CLARICE CASE EDITOR On Saturday morning, May 4, the Campbellsport Public Library held a ribbon cutting for their new story walk outside behind the library. “The idea to create a story walk came from visiting other communities in the area with my children,” explained Director Alison Capoyianes. “My children love walking the paths and.

GREEN BAY, WI – (WISS & WGBW) – Civic Media radio stations WISS and WGBW won three awards from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association (WBA) during the WBA Awards Gala in Madison on May 4th. WISS in Oshkosh won first place for best promotional announcement for “Diamonds Are a...

Nothing goes better with Mother’s Day than flowers, especially tulips.  Northeastern Wisconsin has a variety of picturesque displays where mom — and the whole family — can get into the spring spirit. Below are five spots where where you can marvel at the first flowers of the season. More: 5 restaurants in the Fox...