Since We Last Met
Since We Last Met
Since We Last Met is a digest of business related news occurring in the Greater Green Bay, Fox Cities, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac areas in the one month since the previous issue of New North B2B.
April 27 The state Department of Transportation began work on a $10.6 million project to improve 16 miles of WIS 26 in Fond du Lac County from Waupun to the northern border with Winnebago County. The project involves relaying the pavement, adding centerline and shoulder rumble strips, various culvert repairs, and isolated areas of roadway reconstruction. WIS 26 will be closed to through traffic during construction, with a detour in place directing traffic to Fond du Lac using U.S. Highway 151 and Interstate 41. The project is expected to be complete in October. April 28 The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved a 12-course, 36-credit online Master’s of Science in Data Science degree program. The master’s degree will be offered beginning this September through a partnership with the UW-Extension and six University of Wisconsin campuses, including UW Green Bay and UW Oshkosh. The
2002 June 2 – The Fond du Lac Kmart store on West Johnson Street closed permanently as part of Kmart Corp.’s bankruptcy plan to close 284 stores. 2003 June 2 – The Wisconsin Department of Transportation began the second leg of the U.S. Highway 151 expansion project between Fond du Lac and Waupun. This segment created a four-lane expressway on 5.2 miles between Thill Road and Hickory Drive. 2007 June 11 – Wisconsin ranked No. 1 in the nation in health care quality in a first ever rating reported by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The rating was based on 129 quality measures in four different care settings. Among those four different care settings, Wisconsin hospital care ranked first in the nation, and it was among the five best-performing states in ambulatory care. 6 | June 2015 | NNB2B
program will offer a curriculum grounded in computer science, math and statistics, management and communication and will teach students how to clean, organize, analyze and interpret large and complex data sets. May 1 The governor signed Assembly Bill 143 into law, regulating transportation network companies such as Uber and Lyft which use a digital network to connect individuals seeking transportation to drivers logged on to the digital network willing to provide paid rides. Under the bill, such transportation network companies would need to be licensed by the state in order to operate in Wisconsin, conduct background checks, and would be prohibited from using drivers who are registered sex offenders, habitual traffic offenders, and individuals convicted of OWIs. The company is also required to electronically transmit the driver’s photo and license plate number to the passenger.
2009 June 5 – American Transmission Co. announced it completed construction of a 75-mile, 345-kilovolt power line connecting New London to Weston in central Wisconsin. As one of the highest capacity lines in the state, the $263 million high-voltage power line is expected to bring greater electric reliability to the Fox Valley area by supporting the new generator at the Weston Power Plant that went into service in 2008. 2010 June 14 – Bemis Company Inc. of Neenah announced plans to sell its facilities in Menasha and in Tulsa, Okla. to Exopack Holding Corp. for $81 million. The divestiture was prompted by federal regulators’ orders that Bemis sell the plants as part of its March 2010 acquisition of Alcan Packaging Food Americas. The Menasha and Oklahoma facilities produce plastic packaging for retail cheese and shrink bags for fresh meat.
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