October 22, 2025 • 5 mins
Local, regional and state news roundup with WHBY News Anchor Terry Kovarik.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With Your News Now on WHPY. I'm Terry Kavarik, a
caretaker at a Fondilac daycare center, is arrested for her
involvement in injuring a three month old baby girl. Thirty
two year old Ashley Karschnik was taken into custody following
an extensive investigation, including interviews and surveillance video taken at
Lilypad Daycare on Fourth Street in Fondelac. Police were notified
(00:22):
October thirteenth by Children's Hospital in Milwaukee of an infant
that sustained a fractured arm. The investigation into this case
was conducted with help from the Fondilac County Department of
Human Services, Child Protective Services, and the Wisconsin Department of
Children and Families. No charges have been filed in this case.
There will be one less option in Nashua cool off
(00:43):
from summer heat. After sixty five years, the Mnasha Pool
is closing for good. That comes after the Mnasha Common
Council unanimously approved a recommendation for closure from the city's
Parks and Recreation Committee. Megan Sackett, the Parks and Recreation director,
says current pool can conditions make it economically unfeasible to
open for short term use.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Staff is estimating it roughly to be three hundred to
five hundred thousand dollars. Instead, our recommendation is to close
up for twenty twenty six and give us an opportunity,
as I said, to remove the existing facility and get
the site prepared for the new facility that is to come.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Work on the new Manasha Aquatic Center scheduled to begin
in mid twenty twenty six. A revised agreement between the
state and the City of Appleton for reconstruction of a
portion of Law Street is heading to the Common Council.
Appleton's Municipal Services Committee approves the changes for the four
point two million dollar project. While the bulk of the
cost will be covered by state and federal funding, Deputy
(01:40):
Director of Public Works Pete Neuberger says one change will
be paid for by the city alone.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Which is the addition of some sidewalks of sidewalk improvements
associated with the railroad crossing. Those are noncompensable costs because
of the federal caps that are in place, so that
additional twenty five fifty dollars then would fall on the
local agency.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The reconstruction project will cover the section of Law Street
between College Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue. Work is scheduled to
begin next year. Two teens are hospitalized following a collision
Tuesday night between a tractor and a pickup truck in
the town of Ashford. Fondelac County Sheriff's deputies were called
to the scene on County Highway W in Sunset Drive
around six thirty eight pm. An investigation found that a
(02:23):
southbound tractor pulling a corn hopper, driven by a sixty
four year old Campbell's portman was struck by a southbound
pickup truck driven by a sixteen year old boy from
Eden along with a sixteen year old boy from Eden
as a passenger. The pickup driver was hospitalized with serious
injuries and the sixteen year old passenger was taken to
another hospital for minor injuries. The tractor driver was not injured.
(02:45):
Bondellac County investigators believe inadequate lighting in the tractor was
a contributing factor in the crash. A Republican joins the
race for the fifty second Assembly district. US marine and
business owner Reeve Polland announces his candidacy. This would be
Poland's first run for public office, Democrat Lease Nodgrass is
the incumbent in the fifty second district, which covers parts
(03:07):
of Appleton and Grand Shoot. Teacher turnover in Wisconsin schools
are dropping since the pandemic, but it still remains 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. Wisconsin Policy
Forum researcher Sarah Shawtels Whbis Jonathan Krause, the slight trend
(03:30):
downward is raising as many questions as answers.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Twenty twenty four ticks down to fourteen percent by the
time we got to twenty five, twenty twenty five of
that thirteen percent, but that's still above average. So one
of our question marks here is is it going to
continue going down and come back down to its pre
pandemic levels. Is it establishing a new normal that's this
above average range, or what else light may see going forward.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The Policy Forums research finds that smaller school districts saw
the most turned over between twenty ten and twenty twenty five.
A receiver man is accused of threatening the state Supreme
Court justice and the Office of Lawyer Regulation. Reporter Bob
Hague has born.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Thirty seven year old Ryan Thornton had an initial appearance
Monday in Dane County Court, charged with felony stalking for
what prosecutors say was a series of increasingly threatening emails
to Chief Justice Jill Kurowsky and the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
Police located Thornton in the Racine County Jail October ninth,
where he allegedly made verbal threats directed at Kurowsky. He
(04:34):
was transferred to Dane County Jail last week. His cash
bail set at eighty five thousand dollars. A preliminary hearing
is October twenty eighth. Bob Hague Wisconsin Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
An accused killer who was a person of interest in
the nineteen ninety five death of Iowa news anchor Jody
Whuizen Truitt, is now linked to the murders of women
in Wisconsin and Missouri. Bob Fisher reports.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Thorny's at What County, Wisconsin say DNA is positively linked
suspect Chris Reevac to the slang of twenty one year
old Dedre harm after a night out to a Wiscounciert
Rapids bar in two thousand and six. DNA also links
Reevakt to the murder of thirty six year old Wunning
of Williams of Ava, Missouri. In two thousand and seven,
revak who was originally from the Wisconcert Rapids area, was
arrested for Williams burder and killed himself in a Missouri
(05:19):
jail cell while awaiting trial. He was considered a possible
suspect in several other unsolved cases, including the nineteen ninety
five disappearance of Mason City TV anchor Jody Who's in
True Bob Fisher.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mason City and the City of Kakana will host a
public information meeting tonight on an access to the new
middle school site. The city's working on a driveway leading
from State Highway fifty five constructing an expanded intersection in
that area to Night's meeting starts at seven at the
Kakanam Municipal Services Building.
With Your News Now on WHPY. I'm Terry Kavarik, a
caretaker at a Fondilac daycare center, is arrested for her
involvement in injuring a three month old baby girl. Thirty
two year old Ashley Karschnik was taken into custody following
an extensive investigation, including interviews and surveillance video taken at
Lilypad Daycare on Fourth Street in Fondelac. Police were notified
(00:22):
October thirteenth by Children's Hospital in Milwaukee of an infant
that sustained a fractured arm. The investigation into this case
was conducted with help from the Fondilac County Department of
Human Services, Child Protective Services, and the Wisconsin Department of
Children and Families. No charges have been filed in this case.
There will be one less option in Nashua cool off
(00:43):
from summer heat. After sixty five years, the Mnasha Pool
is closing for good. That comes after the Mnasha Common
Council unanimously approved a recommendation for closure from the city's
Parks and Recreation Committee. Megan Sackett, the Parks and Recreation director,
says current pool can conditions make it economically unfeasible to
open for short term use.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Staff is estimating it roughly to be three hundred to
five hundred thousand dollars. Instead, our recommendation is to close
up for twenty twenty six and give us an opportunity,
as I said, to remove the existing facility and get
the site prepared for the new facility that is to come.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Work on the new Manasha Aquatic Center scheduled to begin
in mid twenty twenty six. A revised agreement between the
state and the City of Appleton for reconstruction of a
portion of Law Street is heading to the Common Council.
Appleton's Municipal Services Committee approves the changes for the four
point two million dollar project. While the bulk of the
cost will be covered by state and federal funding, Deputy
(01:40):
Director of Public Works Pete Neuberger says one change will
be paid for by the city alone.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Which is the addition of some sidewalks of sidewalk improvements
associated with the railroad crossing. Those are noncompensable costs because
of the federal caps that are in place, so that
additional twenty five fifty dollars then would fall on the
local agency.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
The reconstruction project will cover the section of Law Street
between College Avenue and Wisconsin Avenue. Work is scheduled to
begin next year. Two teens are hospitalized following a collision
Tuesday night between a tractor and a pickup truck in
the town of Ashford. Fondelac County Sheriff's deputies were called
to the scene on County Highway W in Sunset Drive
around six thirty eight pm. An investigation found that a
(02:23):
southbound tractor pulling a corn hopper, driven by a sixty
four year old Campbell's portman was struck by a southbound
pickup truck driven by a sixteen year old boy from
Eden along with a sixteen year old boy from Eden
as a passenger. The pickup driver was hospitalized with serious
injuries and the sixteen year old passenger was taken to
another hospital for minor injuries. The tractor driver was not injured.
(02:45):
Bondellac County investigators believe inadequate lighting in the tractor was
a contributing factor in the crash. A Republican joins the
race for the fifty second Assembly district. US marine and
business owner Reeve Polland announces his candidacy. This would be
Poland's first run for public office, Democrat Lease Nodgrass is
the incumbent in the fifty second district, which covers parts
(03:07):
of Appleton and Grand Shoot. Teacher turnover in Wisconsin schools
are dropping since the pandemic, but it still remains 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. Wisconsin Policy
Forum researcher Sarah Shawtels Whbis Jonathan Krause, the slight trend
(03:30):
downward is raising as many questions as answers.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Twenty twenty four ticks down to fourteen percent by the
time we got to twenty five, twenty twenty five of
that thirteen percent, but that's still above average. So one
of our question marks here is is it going to
continue going down and come back down to its pre
pandemic levels. Is it establishing a new normal that's this
above average range, or what else light may see going forward.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
The Policy Forums research finds that smaller school districts saw
the most turned over between twenty ten and twenty twenty five.
A receiver man is accused of threatening the state Supreme
Court justice and the Office of Lawyer Regulation. Reporter Bob
Hague has born.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Thirty seven year old Ryan Thornton had an initial appearance
Monday in Dane County Court, charged with felony stalking for
what prosecutors say was a series of increasingly threatening emails
to Chief Justice Jill Kurowsky and the Office of Lawyer Regulation.
Police located Thornton in the Racine County Jail October ninth,
where he allegedly made verbal threats directed at Kurowsky. He
(04:34):
was transferred to Dane County Jail last week. His cash
bail set at eighty five thousand dollars. A preliminary hearing
is October twenty eighth. Bob Hague Wisconsin Radio Network.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
An accused killer who was a person of interest in
the nineteen ninety five death of Iowa news anchor Jody
Whuizen Truitt, is now linked to the murders of women
in Wisconsin and Missouri. Bob Fisher reports.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
Thorny's at What County, Wisconsin say DNA is positively linked
suspect Chris Reevac to the slang of twenty one year
old Dedre harm after a night out to a Wiscounciert
Rapids bar in two thousand and six. DNA also links
Reevakt to the murder of thirty six year old Wunning
of Williams of Ava, Missouri. In two thousand and seven,
revak who was originally from the Wisconcert Rapids area, was
arrested for Williams burder and killed himself in a Missouri
(05:19):
jail cell while awaiting trial. He was considered a possible
suspect in several other unsolved cases, including the nineteen ninety
five disappearance of Mason City TV anchor Jody Who's in
True Bob Fisher.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Mason City and the City of Kakana will host a
public information meeting tonight on an access to the new
middle school site. The city's working on a driveway leading
from State Highway fifty five constructing an expanded intersection in
that area to Night's meeting starts at seven at the
Kakanam Municipal Services Building.
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