February 2018

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January 8 The Howard-Suamico School District Board of Education approved an April 3 referendum asking voters to exceed the state-imposed spending cap by $5.85 million a year for the next five years to help restore recent staffing cuts prompted by a looming $3 million deficit at the beginning of the 2017-18 fiscal year. Voters in the district overwhelmingly turned down a similar referendum in April 2017 asking for an additional $4 million per year indefinitely. If approved by voters, the measure would increase the district tax rate by $1.19 for every $1,000 of equalized property value, or $119 in additional taxes on a property valued at $100,000.

January 8 An early afternoon explosion at Signature Wafers in Ripon sent two employees to the hospital with minor, non-life threatening injuries. An estimated 30 employees were working at the cookie production facility at the time of the accident, leading to an immediate evacuation of the plant. Fire officials still had not determined the cause of the accident as of B2B press time for this edition.

January 16 Appleton-based Schenck SC – one of the nation’s top 25 accounting firms and the largest headquartered in northeast Wisconsin – named Daniel Young, CPA, as its next president, succeeding Greg Barber, CPA. Young has served as the managing shareholder of Schenck’s Green Bay office since 2008. He began his career as a staff accountant at Shinners, Hucovski and Company, SC in Green Bay, progressing through the ranks to shareholder in 1991.

The firm merged with Schenck in 1999.

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January 17 Gannett Co. announced it will close down its Appleton newspaper printing facility in late April and move production to a print facility in Milwaukee, effectively laying off 140 employees. The change in the production location is not expected to have a significant impact on newspaper delivery times.

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January 18 Larry’s Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in Little Chute and Kaukauna were sold by the Verhagen family to StoneRidge Markets of Wautoma, which previously acquired its Larry Market’s Inc. store in De Pere. Most of the 260 full and parttime employees of the two Heart of the Valley grocery stores will remain in their existing roles under the new ownership. n

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