The Fox Cities has lengthy been the place the place I hold my hat. I’ve spent infinite hours ingesting espresso with buddies at Copper Rock on Faculty Avenue, afternoons wandering the Fox River Mall in search of the right reward or impulse purchase, and nights consuming WAY an excessive amount of popcorn on the Appleton East Marcus Cinema. As an Appleton Native, I’m past excited to be taking up as The Buzz reporter and seeing the companies which have made up my life in a brand new mild and study their tales.
The Buzz has been a supply of native enterprise protection for the final twenty years, sharing the tales of companies massive and small within the Fox Cities. From openings and closings to renovations and new house owners, The Buzz has answered readers’ questions on what’s taking place of their neighborhood.
As the brand new Buzz reporter, I plan to maintain up the entire nice reporting that has come to outline the beat on the Put up-Crescent. I will even be taking up The Buzz E-newsletter, an electronic mail e-newsletter that discusses and compiles current Buzz content material so that you by no means miss a narrative. You possibly can subscribe to the e-newsletter here.
Most just lately, I labored because the Streetwise reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, masking comparable matters as The Buzz. I spent two years studying about Brown County and the companies within the higher Inexperienced Bay space. I fell in love with telling the tales of native haunts from studying the historical past of the 73-year-old supper membership, Walley’s Spot, to describing the eagerness behind the opening of Generations Vaquero Shop.
Earlier than working for the Press-Gazette, I attended Marquette College the place I acquired a bachelor’s diploma in journalism and interned for the Milwaukee Neighborhood Information Service. I additionally wrote for the Virginian Pilot as a part of the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism.
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Trying forward, The Buzz will look principally the identical and you’ll count on to see a number of native protection. I additionally encourage you to proceed sending in suggestions and questions as a result of in the end, The Buzz is about telling readers what they wish to know. You possibly can attain me through electronic mail at abursiekkloehn@gannett.com or by cellphone at 920-427-5562.
The one change readers can count on is I will not be doing all of the reporting alone. You may additionally see posts from Rebecca Loroff, a breaking and trending information reporter for USA-TODAY NEWTWORK-Wisconsin, who has been writing for The Buzz for the final two months. Rebecca will probably be contributing to the part when wanted to verify we’re at all times offering solutions in a well timed trend, and he or she’s completely happy to obtain any enterprise tricks to her electronic mail at rloroff@gannett.com.
In the event you’re fascinated about getting access to all Buzz content material, I like to recommend purchasing a digital subscription to the Appleton Put up-Crescent. Your subscription provides you full entry to our on-line content material and helps native journalism so Rebecca and I, and plenty of extra reporters, can give you nice protection.
Alexandria Bursiek Kloehn is a enterprise reporter for the Appleton Put up-Crescent. You possibly can attain her at abursiekkloehn@gannett.com or view her Twitter profile at @bursiekkloehn.
