WHBY Morning News 4-29-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now the latest from the whby Omni Glass and Paine
News Center. Good morning gets sixty two degrees at Bible four,
I'm landed more. While Cruz take down all of the
structures put up for the NFL draft, some street closures
are coming to an end. Packer's Vice president for public Affairs,
Aaron Popkey, asks drivers and businesses to remain patient for

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all of the barricades to come down.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
We want to ask people to be patient as things
get cleaned up and taken down and just plan accordingly
like you've been doing now and support the businesses that
are around here.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We want that, but just familiarize yourself with the schedule
and reach out to those businesses if you've got some
specific questions. It will be another couple of weeks before
portions of Oneita Street and Armed Forces Drive reopen to traffic.
The furniture used by the draft prospects in Green Bay
last week will be used in living rooms in the
Green Bay area. The NFL and LOWS are donating the

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chairs and tables to the Greater green Bay Habitat for Humanity,
which will use them in some of their builts. CEO
Jessica Dedrick appreciates the help.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I cannot begin to describe how fortunate we feel. I
know that we have hundreds and hundreds of amazing nonprofits
in our community who all deserve exposure and support and generosity,
and I just feel so lucky that we were chosen
as one of the nonprofits that lows in the NFL
decided that they wanted to come and help out during draft.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Last week, former Packers players and NFL officials worked on
a habitat built site in Green Bay. Fox Crossing Police
are asking for your help and finding a missing man.
Please say diego. Alejandro Ramirez was last seen around one
thirty Sunday morning in the area of Elrud Drive and
Ninth Street, which borders Fox Crossing and Banasha. Ramirez stands
five foot nine, weighs one hundred and twenty two pounds,

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and has black hair and brown eyes. He also has
a tattoo of the vertical letters DAD on his neck.
He was last seen wearing a red hoodie and blue jeans,
and when with information is asked to contact Fox Crossing Police.
You could find a photo of Ramirez on our website
whby dot com former Wiponcrectional institution Boarden Randall, Hepp will
not have to spend any time behind bars for the

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death of inmates in that prison. Instead, Heps fined five
hundred dollars in Dodge County court on misdimeter charges of
violating state county institution laws. Hepp was initially charged with
felony a misconduct in office following an investigation into the
death of three inmates at WCI since a lockdown started
in late twenty twenty three, but the charges were reduced
as part of a plea deal. The Wisconsin Department of

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Natural Resources is unveiling its new Fishingfinder tool. Fisheries System
biologist Alex Latska says, Wisconsin anglers are lucky to have
so many places to fish, but the challenge for a
fisherman or an angler is where do I go? How
do I pick from the pile of all these awesome places?
How do I decide where to fish? So that's what
we are trying to do with this tool. How do
we give angler some information to help them kind of

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narrow the search. The tool includes fishing regulations, boat launch locations,
and lake habitat and fish snocking information. A portion of
State Highway fifty seven is closed to traffic. This spring,
the DOT is rebuilding three intersections along fifty seven in
southern Door County. Reduced conflict U turn intersections will be
installed at County Highway h Stone Road and County Highway Sea.

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One lane of traffic will be kept open in both directions.
All lanes will be opened for the Memorial Day and
Fourth of July weekends. The project should be completed by
the end of August. The State Department of Transportation closes
its rest areas along Interstate forty three in Manitua County.
The rest areas between Marrabel and Denmark will undergo complete
rebuilding with additional semi parking added. The facilities will reopen

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in June of twenty twenty six.