WHBY Morning News 10-30-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
A century of quality Reporting continues on Whby with the
latest from the Omniglass and pay News Center.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, It's thirty three degrees at five oh four,
I'm man did more. The City Minasha is looking to
partner with Habitat for Humanity to improve its housing Snock
Community Development Director Andrew Daines says the city alone cannot
keep up with demands for improvements to existing homes.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
It's a fairly heavy lift for us to administer as
a small department, and so just looking towards the future,
I wanted to explore some different opportunities for kind of
leveraging our investment that we have through the Strong Neighborhoods program,
and the thought was to try to do like a
one year pilot just to see how this partnership would
work with Habitat.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Habitat Vice president Amy McGowan says, they can make a
big impact with money from the city.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
What we're looking at if we were able to leverage
one hundred thousand dollars of Habitat funding. With one hundred
thousand dollars that's part of the Strong neighbor Huts program,
we could do an additional ten to fifteen additional home
repairs in the city of Manasha, and that's in addition
to the three new bills that we are already planning
to do next year, as well as rock the Block.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
The Mnasha Common Council will consider that partnership with Habitat
for Humanity next month. An Appleton High School teacher is
arrested on child pornography charges. Please say. They took James
Newhart into custody on Wednesday following a tip from the
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about his alleged
online activities. Newhart is a teacher at Fox Valley Lutheran
High School and served as the school's band director. Please

(01:34):
say there is no indication that any FBL students were
involved in Newhart's actions. Criminal charges are pending. An oshkosh
Man is in custody following a shooting incident at a business.
Please say. The twenty four year old shot his coworker
while they were working in the eighteen hundred block of
Jackson Street around one fifty Wednesday morning. The victim was
taken to the hospital for treatment of a non life

(01:55):
threatening injury. Officers found the suspect near the business and
took him into custody. Criminal charges are pending. A wildfire
burns and estimated seventy acres of land in Door County.
The blaze broke out in the town of Gardner shortly
before three o'clock Tuesday afternoon. It took crews about four
and a half hours to put out the flames. No
one was hurt and no buildings were damaged. Officials say

(02:16):
the fire was caused by flames from an ATV. The
Wisconsin Grocers Association is asking the federal government to continue
to fund the Foodchairs program during the shutdown. The Foodstance
program will not be funded starting on November first, and
WGA President and CEO Mike Simmons says that will affect
both shoppers and stores.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Food security is fundamental to the well being of every
Wisconsin family and grocers across the state, both in urban
and rural communities, see firsthand how vital the food share
program is for families struggling to make ends meet.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
State officials have been encouraging food Shares enrollees to maintain
some balance in their accounts heading into the next month.
The Wisconsin legislature is unlikely to step in once federal
funding four food Share runs out because of the shutdown.
Porterbob Hague has more.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
Wisconsin administers some one hundred fourteen million dollars in federally
funded food share benefits for seven hundred thousand people. State
Senate President Republican Mary Felskowski on WISNS upfront.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
One hundred and fourteen million is a lot of money,
and my heart goles out to people, But this is
a federal issue, and I don't see the state having
the resources to do that.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
But Feeding Wisconsin executive director Jackie Anderson points to the
state's nearly two billion dollar rainy day fund and more
than four billion dollar surplus.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
So the funding is there if we choose to actually
implement that and use some of it to help these
snap folks.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Anderson says, if you have a food share balance from October,
you will be able to use that through November. Bob Haigu,
Wisconsin Radio Network