The Department of Public Works would like to notify the motoring public of two street closures due to the City’s Manhole Rehabilitation Project. The west traffic lane and parking on South Park Avenue will be closed to southbound traffic between Guindon Boulevard and 21st Street. The closure will begin Tuesday, October 7th and continue through Friday, October 10th. Traffic will be detoured on 9th Street, west to Main Street, then […]
Waupun police are warning residents about a telephone scam. The Waupun PD has received a couple of calls from local residents. According to the complaints the male caller states that person has won the Publisher Clearing House sweepstakes and is eligible to receive $2-million dollars. To get the $2-million they have to obtain a $150.00 or $250.00 pre paid card from Walgreens in Waupun and then call back to claim […]
Did you know… In Dodge County the number of people who have died from accidental opiate overdoses has doubled in the past year?? Most of those who die first use opiates in early high school?? Those addicted often turn to crime to support their habit?? Learn how heroin and other drugs are affecting your children and your community: WHAT: WHERE: Presentation ~ 6:30 p.m. Beaver Dam High School […]
Drug Free Communities of Fond du Lac County has a new grant coordinator. Ripon native and former county director of administration Ellen Sorensen has been tabbed for the post. Sorensen returns to Fond du Lac County having spent several years working in administrative capacities at both Brown and Marinette Counties. The past two years she has dealt with issues of drug use and chaired the Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee of […]
Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel will receive the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) Citation of Merit for his outstanding contribution to libraries and librarianship. The award is given to Wisconsin citizens who are neither librarians nor library trustees and who have made outstanding contributions to quality library services. Buechel was nominated by the directors of the seven libraries in Fond du Lac County. The nomination cited Buechel’s “unique level […]
Lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch is making a campaign stop in Fond du Lac Saturday. Kleefisch will make a stop at the Republican Party of Wisconsin Fond du Lac field office at 810 South Main Street. Kleefisch is scheduled to arrive at 6pm Saturday.
The Marian University Board of Trustees recently appointed three new members. Todd Butz, a 1999 alumnus of Marian, serves as the Vice President of Finance/Controller of MEC, Inc., in Mayville. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration and Accounting at Marian University and an MBA at Oklahoma State Troy Schill is a 1994 alumnus of Marian and serves as the Director of Business Unit Finance of Grande Cheese Company in […]
A hefty cash bail has been ordered for a Campbellsport martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting one of his students. Forty three year old William Schellinger made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance Thursday on two counts of second degree sexual assault of a child and one count of repeated sexual assault of the same child. Judge Gary Sharpe set bail at $100,000 cash. According to a criminal […]
BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — Bail is set at $1 million cash bond for a Wisconsin man charged in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and her boyfriend. Thirty-three-year-old Nicholas Tuinstra faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of Melissa Tuinstra and Justin Daniels. Both victims were 28 years old. According to the complaint, Nicholas Tuinstra initially denied going to his wife's Berlin apartment the night she […]