WHBY Morning News 10-23-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A century of quality reporting continues on WHVY with the
latest from the Omniglass and Pain News Center. Good morning,
It's thirty nine degrees at five oh four, I'm landed more.
Appleton's Veterans Park near Memorial Drive will be getting a
new name. That comes after the city's Parks and Recreation
Committee approves a revised park naming policy. The new policy

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sets the criteria to be considered for renaming parks, including
significant people or groups, locations, and the commonly accepted park
name among nearby residents. Alter Katie van Zealand believes it's
vital to get neighborhood input for any proposed name changes.
People have owned their homes there.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I think that they should have a way to provide
their feedback. This gives the name renaming committee the flexibility
to do that outreach in a way.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
That they so choose.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
The name change is being sought now that Appleton Memorial
Park's name was recently changed to Veterans Memorial Park for
the first time in sixty five summers. The Nasha Pool
will not be open for use. That comes after the
Nasha Common Council unanimously approved a recommendation for closure from
the city's Parks and Recreation Committee. Megan Sackett, the Parks
and Recreation Director, explained the reasons behind the recommendation and

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the benefits for going one summer without a municipal pool, the.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Current state of the pool and the different maintenance repairs
that are needed or recommended by staff to open it
back up safely in twenty twenty six, and giving us
an opportunity to remove the existing pool in getting us
an advanced start on the new pool and the new
facility that'll be going in place there.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Work on the new Manasha Aquatic Center scheduled to begin
in mid twenty twenty six. Four people are in custody
following a drug investigation in Oshkosh. Police executed a search
warrant at a residence in the five hundred block of
Amherst Avenue on Tuesday. Officers reportedly found a handgun, three
grams of cocaine, and one hundred and thirty three grams
of marijuana. Four people ranging from sixteen to thirty eight

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years old, were arrested. Criminal charges are pending. The State
Department of Justice releases the names of those involved in
a fatal Washera County police shooting last week, Timothy Layman
allegedly fired shots at de Wuty Alex Midthune as Midthune
and other officers were responding to a reported domestic violence
incident at a township of Watuma residents last Thursday. Midthune

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returned fire before Layman barricaded himself inside the home, leading
to a standoff. Officers later entered the home and found
Layman dead. Investigators believe he died from mid Thune's gunshots
and not from self inflicted once Midthoune is on administrative leave,
the incident remains under investigation. Wiscott's and school districts are
seeing lower teacher turnover rates since increase his peat during

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the pandemic, but they remain higher than the pre pandemic years.
Current teacher turnover rates stand at nearly thirteen percent, compared
to nearly sixteen percent during the peak pandemic year of
twenty twenty three. Wiscottson Policy Form researcher Sarah Shaw tells
WHBIS Jonathan Krause the current turnovers could be due to
a number of reasons.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeahly twelve percent of the state's teaching workforce either moved
from one school district to another, but stayed in teaching
or left teaching in Wisconsin public schools, and that might
be something like the retirement. It could be that they
moved into another state or into the private school system,
or it could mean that they quit and went into
a different profession other than education.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
The Policy Forums research finds that smaller school districts saw
the most turnover between twenty ten and twenty twenty five.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is urging families to
test their homes and children for lead. Reporter Raymond Nupert
tells us More. The message comes as the number of
lead poisoning incidents and children continues to rise, with nearly
five thousand cases in twenty twenty four. LED policy advisor

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Brian Weaver tells Fox eleven Green Bay. Most of the
cases happen in homes that still have paint from the seventies,
when lead use was still prevalent. The department is now
recommending all children to have testing at ages one and
two to detect and prevent long term damage. Raymond Nupert,
Wisconsin Radio Network