One-year anniversary of Watchdog Q&A column and some questions that never got answered

A year has passed since a reader answered everything that answers Green Bay, a reader’s question about two rocks.

Readers have mentioned and talked about it in any way:

• In January, a reader, “I love your articles – the topics you have chosen and the writing style. They were done well.”

• A reader in August, “(Green Bay Press-Gazette) ‘s send us your questions’ is unfortunate, ‘journalism’ style.

• “I call it a column of curiosity,” a reader said on the snowy February.

Last year, there were more than 70 questions that readers sent E -mail, texted and called for the column.

As a journalist, our mission is to find stories that make sense of life, one of the oldest responsibilities in the world and tell stories. Our loyalty to the reader. So, answer reader questions education with Packers part of it. It is an impossible task to be everywhere and to know, know, know everything, to know everything, despite our colleagues and I try.

Questions about Green Bay’s ways are some of the most asked questions

In your mind, the roads are usually one way to walk around for every beard that usually drivers, bikes, walking, getting on a bus or using micro transit.

You wanted to know Where your wheel tax goes. In April, the financial department said that the press newspaper left $ 1.8 million in the wheel tax fund.

Valerie Joosten, the city’s public director, made an update about this figure in August, reporting At the end of 2024, the fund remained $ 3,24 million. In 2023, the city spent over 2.6 million dollars and 2024’s dimming and common sealing materials, as well as again, such as Finger Road and South Maple Boulevard.

You asked if various ways will be rebuilt. Studies on Country Club Road began with expectations that would end until mid -November. The timeline extends beyond 2030 for some, such as Shawano Boulevard.

And during the driving, you noticed dead deer along the highway and wondered why they were left to decay. Both of them cost -effective And part of the painful pain for the monitoring system of the State Department’s new Roadkill.

Readers have love for Green Bay’s history

There is a love of history and the desire to understand how things come in the oldest city of Wisconsin.

You asked why Dousman and the main streets were different names along the Fox River. Although the members of the Municipal Assembly in 1895, there was no need to change the name of Dousman Street to “West Ana Street, to comply with the commercial main street.

For Vince Lombardi, you wondered why the name of Lombardi Avenue’s County Motorway was “VL, but“ VK .. Former District Highway Commissioner Roger Kolb was not a Minnesota Vikings reference for his wife Valerie Kolb, but a love of love that Kolb often heard.

No change is very little and no object is insignificant for readers

There are some sharp eyes and minds that pay attention to changes.

You noticed that the grass was cut next to Cabela on Ashwaubenon’s Lombardi Boulevard. 2025 NFL Draft And fight against the invading European reeds.

Farmory, an old Aquaponics initiative, no longer has a community existence and wondered what it is. The organization did not make money for years despite an optimistic public appearance, then 815 Chicago St.

And the question that started everything saw two “outstanding” stone blocks on the edge of the road. One didn’t matter, but the other was a pale historical marker of the former Fort Howard Hospital.

More questions from weeks in a year so far leave unanswered

There were questions that were not answered with only 52 weeks and more questions a year.

Your regularly planned column will come back next week, but in the article, the distribution of questions that never have its own field or not answered in our reports:

Reader Question: When will the Brewers wall picture be made and will be announced?

Reply: Press newspaper previously reported Milwaukee Brewers Barrelman Mascot Fisheries 164 N. Broadway wall was announced on August 28th.

Reader Question: Where can I get one of those who slow down the Green Bay Lawn signs?

Reply: Craig Stevens, a member of the Municipal Assembly, who is tired of speed in the city, was printed in April, 40 blue grass signs that encouraged drivers to slow down in the settlement areas up to 25 miles / hour. Stevens can be accessed by Facebook and E -Posta: craig.tevens@greenbaywi.gov. He said he would personally leave the signs.

Reader Question: So… What is the gigantic building next to Meijer Foods in the corner of Taylor and Shawano?

Reply: The Basin Newspaper said that a two -storey, sick rehabilitation center was built and that it was planned to be temporarily opened in the autumn of 2026.

Reader Question: Why does nobody fish on the south side of the Pere Bridge?

Reply: Pere Riverwalk next to Voyageur Park was published with signs that say that the South Wildlife Interview Pier was unlimited for fishing. There is only a private fishing pier in the north.

Do you have a question about Green Bay? For an answer every week, send them to Jesse Lin at 920-834-420 or jlin@gannett.com.

Do you have a question about education in the region? Send them to Nadia Scharf from nscharf@gannett.com or 920-431-8296.

Do you have a question about Packers? Send them to Richard Ryman at rryman@gannett.com.

This article was initially published in Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay Reader Question Column One Year Anniversary and Unattered