Month: November 2014

The Fond du Lac School District  recognized Linda Bastian and the Fondy Food Pantry as the 2014-15 Friend of Education award recipients at the November 24 Board of Education meeting. Pictured here are: Marian Sheridan, FDLSD School Health, Safety, Attendance & Transportation Coordinator; Sarah Zimmerman, Fondy Food Pantry President; Linda Bastian, Fondy Food Pantry volunteer and Food for Thought Coordinator; Elizabeth Hayes, Board of Education President; Terry Hansen-Beno, Pantry/Volunteer Coordinator; […]

Relocation of Marian University’s School of Nursing to downtown Fond du lac is a step closer to reality.  The Fond du lac city council Tuesday night approved a resolution to declare the downtown A.C. Nielson building a blighted property  and $4.2 million in redevelopment revenue bonds to purchase and rehabilitate the property.  Community Development director Dyann Benson says the property qualifies as blighted because the building has been unused or […]

The Fond du Lac city council has approved a five year Parks and Recreation plan.  Community Development Director Dyann Benson says the plan calls for developing three new parks over the next few years.  "The South Park area, Hunters Grove and Meadowlands Park and those are three parks that will be serving some neighborhoods that are in need of some recreation and open space,"  Benson told WFDL news.  Benson says the […]

The Fond du Lac city council has approved the annexation of property for residential development. Community development director Dyann Benson says the two acre parcel of land in the town of Fond du Lac is owned by Revest at W5149 Rienzi Road.  Initiator of the petition is Jeffrey Berenz on behalf of Revest. Benson said the property is located within a City Growth Area under an intergovernmental  agreement with the […]

The Waupun deputy police chief says it appears a  grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson Missouri shows the jury believed the physical evidence in the case outweighed the sometimes conflicting eyewitness accounts of what happened.    The community erupted into unrest after the decision was announced.  Waupun deputy police chief Scott Louden there's a process in place […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — About 50 students rallied on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, officer who killed a black 18-year-old.  Organized by student organizations and Milwaukee County Supervisor David Bowen, they started by standing silently with signs like, "We are Michael Brown," the teen killed in Missouri. They then chanted "Hands up, Don't Shoot" -- a refrain that […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Scores of protesters angry over a grand jury's refusal to issue an indictment in Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, and plans for a new Dane County jail are filling downtown Madison's streets.  The crowd marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the jail Tuesday afternoon, chanting "Hands up, don't shoot" and carrying a banner that read "stop racist police violence." They used Brown's death […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly 70,000 pages of emails and attachments collected during the first John Doe investigation into former aides and associates of Gov. Scott Walker during his time as Milwaukee County executive have been released.  The information made public Tuesday is the fourth such release of emails and other documents prosecutors seized from county and personal computers during the investigation that ended in 2013.  Walker was never charged […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Rep. Bill Kramer is headed to jail for five months after pleading no contest to fourth-degree sexual assault.  Kramer, the former Assembly majority leader, reached a plea deal last month just before he was to go to trial on felony charges. He starts his sentence Dec. 4.   Kramer, a Town of Waukesha Republican, was accused of groping a woman outside a GOP event at […]