WHBY Morning News 5-5-2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Now the latest from the whby Omni Glass and Pane
News Center. Good morning, it's forty four degrees at five
oh four. I'm landed more. Valley Transit continues to see
decreasing ridership numbers. Enterprise account manager Kristen Stole says March
was down considerably from the same month in twenty twenty four.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
The March fixed route ridership was down twenty one percent
from prior year, which is approximately twelve thousand rides. The
reduction in rides was across all fair types and routes
apart from Appleton Area School District. This continues to reflect
our changes in service that were implemented in July of
last year.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Last summer, Valley Transit eliminated bus service after six pm
on weekdays and cut Saturday hours as well due to
way driver shortage. The City of Appleton is looking for
feedback on a new comprehensive plan. The city is working
to update the plan, which provides a guide for future development.
An online survey can be found on the city's website.
The deadline two filled out is May ninth. A long

(01:00):
time public service leader in Brown County has died. Tom
Hints passed away over the weekend at the age of
eighty three. Hints spent thirty one years with the Green
Bay Police Department, which included serving as assistant chief. He
was elected Brown County Sheriff in nineteen ninety six and
held that role for six years. Hints later served as
County Executive, doing so from two thousand seven until twenty eleven.

(01:21):
Funeral arrangements are pending Aschwabinon Public Safety releases the name
of a de peer man killed in a crash last month.
Connor Carlson's motorcycles struck a sedan at the intersection of
Ashland Avenue and Mike McCarthy Way on April twenty sixth.
Carlson was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The eighty
four year old Ashwabinon woman driving the car was hospitalized
with non life threatening injuries. Her name has not been released.

(01:44):
The crash remains under investigation. One person is heard Following
an explosion and fire in Fondelac, crews were called to
a home along North Park Avenue around five fifty Saturday
evening to find flames coming from a portable fire pit
in the driveway. The fire was contained to the pit,
A male living there was taken to a nearby hospital
for treatment of burns to his hands, arms, and face.

(02:06):
Officials said the victim poured gasoline on cardboard in the
pit and tried to light it, which led to the
gas can exploding. The Marquete County Sheriff's office is investigating
a fatal shooting incident involving children. A seven year old
reportedly shot a three year old to death at a
home in the town of Crystal Lake shortly before four
thirty Saturday afternoon. No further details were released. Nearly eighteen

(02:28):
hundred of the more than seventeen thousand deer harvested during
the twenty twenty four hunting season tested positive four chronic
wasting disease. That's according to Department of Natural Resources dear
Hurt specialist Aaron Larson, the percent.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Of positives or prevalence rates for the disease are not
consistent throughout the state. It varies drastically. We don't want
to look at it at a statewide basis, and may
not even want to look at it on a county
wide basis because it differs quite a bit depending on
de range and habitat and what's occurring in that particular area.

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Two counties, chip Awa and Manitwac had their first wild
positive CWD detection in twenty twenty four. Trial is scheduled
today for a Green Bay man accused of molesting a
teenage girl in a mall. Robert Starnes is charged in
Brown County Court with second degree sexual assault and auto theft.
Starnes allegedly had sexual contact with a fifteen year old
girl at the Bay Park Square mall in June of

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twenty twenty two. The vehicle theft charge relates to Starnes
allegedly taking a vehicle for a test drive from a
dealership and not dropping it off until the next day.
He faces up to forty three years in prison if convicted.
Two Green Bay bridges will be closed to traffic for
a portion of the next two days. Crews will be
doing spring cleaning of the Donald Tillman Memorial Bridge along

(03:39):
Mason Street between six this morning and three this afternoon.
Traffic will be detoured during that time. The Bart's Star
Memorial Bridge along Walnut Street will be closed during the
same hours on Tuesday,