⚡ TL; DR
🏈 Bears at Lambeau Sunday 10/11, noon on FOX, flexed up from 3:25, forecast says mid-70s
🎸 Sugarland plays the Resch Center Friday 10/9 at 7 PM
🎃 Zoo Boo opens at the NEW Zoo this weekend, $15, kids under 3 free
🚂 The Great Pumpkin Train rolls at the Railroad Museum Saturday and Sunday 10/10 to 10/11
🏆 West De Pere is No. 2 in the state on a 21-game win streak, two weeks to playoffs
🏗️ An 80,000 sq ft, $15 million indoor adventure park just broke ground in Bellevue
🍽️ 45 restaurants cook for Make-A-Wish at Gourmet Wishes Wednesday 10/14
📈 Mortgage rates crossed 7% for the first time since January 2025
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Hey Neighbors 👋
Quick heads up before anything else: if you cross the Main Street bridge on your way to work, that stops Monday. Three weeks. Plan your detour now, and you'll be fine. Wait until Monday morning, and you'll be the guy honking at nobody.
Everything else this week is good news. Bears in town, 75 degrees, and about six different ways to put a pumpkin in a kid's hands.
Here's the week.
— MH
📌 🌉 Main Street Bridge Closes for Three Weeks
Starting Monday, Oct 12, the Ray Nitschke Memorial Bridge connecting Dousman and Main over the Fox River shuts down to vehicles and pedestrians through Friday, Oct 30. This is the full-closure phase of the construction that has restricted lanes since July. The posted detour is Broadway, Walnut Street, and Monroe Avenue, and access to downtown homes and businesses stays open. Boaters who need a lift now need two hours' notice, with lifts available 6 AM to 8 PM except Oct 19 to 21. If your morning route runs across Main, give yourself an extra ten minutes next week.
📌 🎗️ Packers vs. Cancer Turns 10
The Packers and UW Health kicked off the 10th year of Packers vs. Cancer at Lambeau last week, and there's an easy way in: the special-edition Packers vs. Cancer winter hat is at the Pro Shop now, with $5 from every sale going to the UW Health Carbone Cancer Center. You can also round up any Pro Shop purchase with a $1 or more donation through the end of October. Earlier this month, players showed up at the Bay Port vs. West De Pere game to donate to both schools' STING Cancer programs. The full campaign gets recognized at the Cowboys game on Oct. 18.
🍽️ Gourmet Wishes: 45 Restaurants, One Room, Real Wishes
📅 Wednesday, Oct 14 | 5:00 to 9:00 PM
📍 Resch Expo, Hall A, 840 Armed Forces Dr
🥂 Make-A-Wish Wisconsin's signature gala brings more than 45 of the area's best kitchens under one roof. Republic Chophouse, Mangiare, Iron Duck, Chives, Hotel Northland, Legacy Hotel, Primal Eats and Cheesecake Heaven are on the list, plus martinis, wine, craft beer, live music and an auction. Last year's event funded nearly 100 wishes. The program features local wish kids telling their stories, so bring tissues.
🎟️ Tickets at gourmetwishes.org. Free parking in the NV Tech lot or Lambeau Lot 1.
🧗 $15 Million Indoor Adventure Park Breaks Ground in Bellevue
Shovels went in Tuesday on Vertical Point Adventure Park, an 80,000-square-foot indoor play facility going up in the GV corridor near Costco in Bellevue. The $15 million build promises floor-to-ceiling slides and climbing structures, and the owner says this is just "phase one" of what they're building. Target opening is next year. For anyone who's spent a January afternoon circling the same three indoor options with kids, this is the one to watch.
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Mortgage rates just did something they haven't done in almost two years. The 30-year fixed averaged 7.28% as of Oct 1 per Freddie Mac, up from 7.03% the week before and 6.34% a year ago. That's the first time above 7% since January 2025, and it's been climbing for five straight weeks. Locally, Green Bay homes are still selling in about 42 days with a median near $293K, so demand hasn't cracked, but every quarter point at these levels shaves real buying power. If you're shopping, start a rate-lock conversation with your lender now. If you're selling, the buyers who are still out there are serious.
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🚂 The Great Pumpkin Train
📅 Saturday, Oct 10 and Sunday, Oct 11 | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
📍 National Railroad Museum, 2285 S Broadway, Ashwaubenon
🎃 A real train ride out to the pumpkin patch, pick your pumpkin, ride back. Your ticket also covers trick-or-treating around the museum grounds, crafts, games, a balloon animal, a not-so-scary haunted house, and a turn on the vintage handcar. Rain or shine. This one is a fundraiser that keeps the museum running.
🎟️ Everyone over 2 needs a ticket, and the train slot is timed, so book ahead
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🎃 North Shore Bank Zoo Boo Opens
📅 Saturday, Oct 10 | 2:00 to 7:00 PM, then again Oct 16 to 17 and Oct 23 to 24
📍 NEW Zoo & Adventure Park, 4418 Reforestation Rd, Suamico
🦴 The area's biggest family Halloween event. Trick-or-treating through the zoo, 200+ carved pumpkins lining the paths, the Skeleton Safari scavenger hunt, and the Haunted Zoo Zone for the brave. $15, kids under 3 free, $20 for a combo ticket that adds the canopy tour. Zoo Pass members get 20% off. The zoo closes early on Zoo Boo days to set up, so don't plan a regular visit that afternoon.
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🦉 Awesome Ambassadors at the Wildlife Sanctuary
📅 Saturday, Oct 10 | 11:00 AM to Noon
📍 Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary, 1660 E Shore Dr
🐾 Free. Meet the sanctuary's resident animal ambassadors up close. Easy add-on to a Bay Beach morning before the game-day traffic starts.
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🎨 Green Bay West Fall Craft Fair
📅 Saturday, Oct 10 | 9:00 AM
📍 Green Bay West High School
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🤘 Stryper
📅 Saturday, Oct 10 | 6:30 PM
📍 EPIC Event Center, Ashwaubenon
🎸 Christian metal royalty with Strange Daze opening.
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🎸 Sugarland: The Ride or Die Tour
📅 Friday, Oct 9 | 7:00 PM
📍 Resch Center, 1901 S Oneida St, Ashwaubenon
🎤 Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush are celebrating 20 years of "Enjoy the Ride" with a 26-city tour, and Green Bay is stop nine. Expect "Stay," "Baby Girl," "Stuck Like Glue," and the whole catalog. Special guest Payton Sullivan opens.
🎟️ Tickets through Ticketstar, ReschCenter.com, or 920-494-3401
🎉 2026-27 Green Bay Hmong New Year
📅 Saturday, Oct 10, 9:00 AM through Sunday, Oct 11, 6:00 PM
📍 Kress Events Center, UW-Green Bay, 2358 Leon Bond Dr
🥁 Peb Yog Hmoob (We Are Hmong) is back for year two of the big community celebration. Cultural dancing, talent competitions, traditional ball tossing, sports tournaments, Hmong vendors, and food stands. Green Bay is the fifth largest Hmong community in Wisconsin, and last year's celebration marked 50 years since Hmong families first resettled in the U.S.
🎺 Buddy Guy 90
📅 Thursday, Oct 8
📍 EPIC Event Center, 2351 Holmgren Way, Ashwaubenon
🎸 A blues legend at 90 years old, with Stephen Hull opening. Fully seated show. This is a see-him-while-you-can night.
🎷 Green Bay Jazz Orchestra at the Tarlton
📅 Thursday, Oct 8 | 6:00 PM
📍 The Tarlton Theatre, 405 W Walnut St, Downtown Green Bay
🎶 Big band on the historic Tarlton stage. Good date-night option that doesn't involve a sports bar.
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🍫 Halloween Candy Bar Bingo
📅 Wednesday, Oct 14 | 6:00 PM
📍 De Pere Community Center, Spruce Room
🎃 Bingo where the prizes are candy bars and the grand prize is a giant bag of them. Admission is one full-size candy bar per bingo card, max three cards per person. Want more cards? A $2 donation to the Recreation Scholarship Fund gets you one extra; $5 gets you three. Costume contest with prizes, so send the kids in full gear. Under 12 needs an adult.
🩰 Swan Lake with Live Orchestra
📅 Saturday, Oct 10 | 7:00 PM
📍 Weidner Center, Cofrin Family Hall, 2420 Nicolet Dr
🎻 World Ballet Company brings the full production with a live orchestra in the pit. The Weidner doesn't get a lot of touring ballet, so if you've got a kid in dance or a date to impress, this is the one.
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🏈 SPORTS
🧀 Bears at Packers
📅 Sunday, Oct 11 | Noon CT on FOX
📍 Lambeau Field
🏈 The NFL flexed this one up from the 3:25 window, so it's a noon kick. The Packers are 2-2 after grinding out a win in Tampa and have won 15 of the last 18 against Chicago at Lambeau. Chicago is starting Tyson Bagent. Green Bay is without Edgerrin Cooper (torn Achilles, placed on IR Tuesday). Forecast is mid to upper 70s and sunny, which is not normal October Lambeau weather and you should enjoy it.
🚗 Bart Starr Plaza Tailgate Party at the Resch Center runs all season starting with this game. Game-day parking at the Resch is live too.
🏒 Gamblers Hockey
📅 Check gamblershockey.com for this weekend. Resch Center lists a Gamblers date of Friday, Oct 9, but the ticket calendar shows the next home games as Oct 23 and 24 vs. Des Moines.
💼 Brown County Fall Job Fair, Thursday Oct 8, noon at the Brown County Central Library downtown. eventbrite.com
🐺 Howling Halloween Hike registration is open. Oct 23 at the Wildlife Sanctuary, $8 per trick-or-treater, two sessions (5 to 6:30 for littles, 6:30 to 8 for the full howl). It sold out last year. greenbaywi.gov
🎃 Trick-or-treat is set: Green Bay, De Pere, Ashwaubenon and Suamico all go Saturday, Oct 31, 4 to 7 PM. Downtown De Pere does its daytime version Saturday, Oct 24, 11 to 2. gotgvg.com
💸 Give BIG Green Bay is taking nonprofit applications for its 10th year through Oct 31. The 24-hour giving day is Feb 24 to 25, 2027. If you run or sit on the board of a Brown County nonprofit, apply at giveBIGgreenbay.org.
🏛️ Green Bay Plan Commission meets Monday, Oct 12 at 6 PM. greenbaywi.gov
📰✨ Garage sales, local deals, lost pups, side gigs- if it matters to the neighborhood, it belongs here.
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🍯 That's the week. Downtown's the place to be, so go catch a show, grab a treat, and I'll see you next Thursday.
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