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*****************ECRWSS**** PRST STD U.S. POSTAGE POSTAL CUSTOMER PAID SHAWANO, WI PERMIT NO. 135 MARCH 3, 2021 x OSHKOSHHERALD.COM VOLUME 4, ISSUE 9 Postal contract adds WinterWinnttteer ClearanCleeaarraancece SaSalele SaSaveve upup toto 60%60% OfOff to company reach first large-scale fleet procurement in more Oshkosh Defense will than three decades. Production is slated to build new USPS fleet begin in 2023 and has an estimated poten- Photo from USPS tial value of $6 billion. Oshkosh Defense will produce the next gen- TEMPLE Quality Sofas & Chairs By Dan Roherty Oshkosh Defense will manufacture eration of delivery trucks for the U.S. Postal 1554 S Commercial St – Neenah • 920-969-9700 Oshkosh Herald both battery electric and low-emission Service, with the updated model depicted internal combustion engine models, up- here, over the next decade nationwide. With the U.S. Postal Service awarding grading the nation’s Postal Service vehi- Oshkosh Corp. a long-term contract for cles and replacing its aging fleet of Grum- hicle where they can deliver today’s mod- INSIDE building the next generation of mail deliv- man LLV trucks. ern mail, which is totally different from ery vehicles – up to 165,000 over the next Oshkosh Corp. president and chief op- 35 years ago,” Pfeifer said, noting that decade – business community leaders are erating officer John Pfeifer said it adds a today’s mail service is about e-commerce praising the vehicle manufacturer’s latest new category for the Defense segment and package delivery instead of the stan- win and its ongoing benefit to the area’s “but it’s right in the middle of our sweet dard letter service that dominated the era economy. spot” of serving the people who operate when the Grummans were built. The corporation’s Defense segment was those vehicles, in this case postal workers The unconventional-looking but opti- awarded the unlimited contract for a Next instead of military troops. SEE Postal truck ON PAGE 15 Generation Delivery Vehicle, the USPS’s “It gives the postal worker a modern ve- Driving force Diversity Antonio Gaines finds his route to service panel keys Page 6 on access Student on trial City committee discusses Testimony heard county’s vaccine outreach on 2019 West attack By Kaitlyn Scoville Page 2 Oshkosh Herald Winnebago County’s efforts to provide Map advisers an equitable vaccination process were among the discussions at the city’s Di- Panel starts looking versity, Equity and Inclusion Committee at redistricting process meeting last week. Lynnsey Erickson, community health Page 8 strategist for the county’s Health Depart- Photo by Andy Ratchman ment, presented about how the county has been working to- ward accommodating Space upgrade Bringing it home people of color and Student’s Gold Award Lourdes Academy basketball players begin to celebrate with fans and family marginalized individu- project benefits shelter Saturday night after stopping Sheboygan Lutheran 85-66 in the WIAA Division als with barriers to set- 4 sectional final game. The win advanced them to the state championship round ting up appointments. Page 18 Friday when they face Edgar High School at the La Crosse Center in the semifinals. Regarding estab- The Knights have won 17 of their last 18 games. See the game story on Page 20. lished outreach among these communities, Erickson said there Erickson were three main points of concern: transpor- Vaccines boost business outlook tation to vaccine appointments, language Oshkosh Herald to recovery. However, labor availability main at risk. barriers and trust in the system. remains a significant challenge,” said Jeff “We should expect more of these firms “If we can reduce barriers to the vaccine, Regional economic activity is begin- Sachse, interim director of UW Oshkosh’s to survive into the summer than may have we can help undo some of the dispropor- ning to look up but recovery remains frag- Center for Customized Research and Ser- been the case at the end of last summer tionate impacts that COVID-19 has had, ile for Wisconsin businesses responding vices. both due to a stronger-than-expected hol- particularly for people of color in our to a University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Fifty-five percent of firms reported -via iday shopping season and targeted new community, in preventing any widening COVID-19 impact study. bility of more than 10 months. assistance,” he said. of the racial health disparities that we have The voluntary survey yielded 270 re- “Improving business viability has been The next phase of the survey, which going forward,” said Erickson, who is also sponses collected between Feb. 5 and buoyed by recent news about increasing opened this week, explores whether com- a Common Council member. Feb. 22 from state businesses representing vaccination rates and the assumption that panies are offering specific incentives to Some efforts by the Health Department 5,000 employees. we will see most activities return to nor- employees who agree to get vaccinated. include holding a percentage of available “The February survey confirms what mal beginning this summer and by the The survey is a partnership of UWO, appointments for individuals who may not we have observed over the past several end of the year,” Sachse said. the state’s nine Regional Development have online access or other technology; months, namely that larger firms and more The survey also showed that smaller Organizations and the Wisconsin Eco- SEE County vaccines ON PAGE 16 traditional industries are well on their way businesses in service-based industries re- nomic Development Corp. PAGE 2 x OSHKOSHHERALD.COM MARCH 3, 2021 West attack hearing reviews confession By Kaitlyn Scoville Oshkosh Herald The pretrial phase for a student charged in the December 2019 attack on an Osh- 923 S. Main St. Suite C kosh West High School police officer con- Oshkosh, WI 54902 tinued last week with testimony from the defendant’s mother and a Dec. 6 trial date General information/customer set in light of attempting to take a confes- service: Julie Vandenberg sion off the table. [email protected] School resource officer Michael Wissink Phone: 920-479-6301 was stabbed several times with a two- Website: www.oshkoshherald.com pronged barbeque fork while they were in his office Dec. 3, 2019, between first and News tips and story ideas second hour of the school day. [email protected] Grant Fuhrman, who was 16 at the time, [email protected] was shot superficially in the chest during Support the Oshkosh Herald the struggle. Wissink and Fuhrman were taken to ThedaCare Regional Medical Membership Center in Neenah for treatment of their A $50 annual membership injuries. supports receiving the newspaper Fuhrman was charged with attempted weekly. Call 920-479-6301 or visit first-degree intentional homicide with a www.oshkoshherald.com/store $1 million cash bond set. /membership. At Wednesday’s motion hearing, six wit- nesses were called to the stand, three each from the prosecution and defense. Under Oshkosh Herald Subscribe the proceeding presided by Winnebago Grant Fuhrman appears at a pretrial hearing last Wednesday in Winnebago County Circuit For $70 annually the Oshkosh County Judge Daniel J. Bissett, defense at- Court on charges related to the December 2019 attack on a West High resource officer. Herald is mailed to non-delivery torney Corey Mehlos and state prosecutor areas via first-class mail. Go to Tracy Ann Paider made their cases. that he was of below-average intelligence suspect and that the officer was forced to www.oshkoshherald.com/shop to function without some kind of support, react while the suspect usually goes with /subscribe or call 920-479-6301. Paider called agent Lourdes Fernan- dez, Kyra Schallorn and special agent and that he was not given the chance to intent. Amy Templin. Their testimony was to have a parent present in the process. A review by the Wisconsin Department affirm that Fuhrman was awake and alert Police interviewed Grant at ThedaCare of Justice, State Patrol and other agencies Advertising enough to answer questions hours after four hours after his gunshot wound, and in February 2020 found the shooting by [email protected] the incident, and that he was of average in- after given 25 micrograms of fentanyl. Fer- Wissink, a 21-year veteran of the depart- Mike Sohm: 920-508-0084 telligence to make regular and individual nandez and Schallhorn ment, was justified. Kristin Magruder: 920-508-0119 choices despite his mental health. both said Grant’s de- Van Engen and Fuhrman’s mother said Mehlos called Grant’s mother, Tina meanor was calm and that in the span of two weeks between Classified advertising Fuhrman; his teacher, Elizabeth Van En- conversational. Thanksgiving and the incident, he had [email protected] gen; and Oshkosh police officer Benjamin They both also said gone back to taking Adderall to treat his 920-479-6301 Fenhouse. he was aware he had ADHD after a year of not doing so. Also The defense argued that Grant was on been informed of his during that time his grandfather died, his All advertisements are subject to too potent of painkillers to accurately an- legal rights. Tina Fuhr- girlfriend broke up with him and he was de- the applicable rate card, copies of swer questions and explain what he did, man and Van Engen nied a return to the school’s football team. which are available from our Ad- T. Fuhrman said it was possible “He suffered silently,” Tina Fuhrman vertising Department. All ads are he could have said he said, adding that these events could have subject to approval before publica- Send business bits understood those rights when he really enacted certain behaviors in school. tion.