The Fond du Lac County board will consider a request to give the Fond du Lac County Fair more time to pay a $50,000 no-interest loan from the County. The board will consider the request at their December 16th meeting. A resolution states that the Fond du Lac County Agricultural Society would pay $10,000 of the $50,000 that is due by Dec. 31, 2014, and pay the remaining $40,000 by […]
Mercury Marine has earned “Green Master” designation from the Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council for the fourth consecutive year, keeping the Fond du Lac manufacturer in the top 20 percent of the 175 participating companies. Mercury learned of the achievement Wednesday during the 2015 Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council annual conference in Milwaukee. The Green Masters Program measures and ranks companies on a broad range of sustainability issues, and Mercury ranked exceptionally […]
Republican state senator Rick Gudex of Fond du Lac has been named chair of the Senate Economic Development and Commerce Committee. Gudex has also been appointed vice chair of the Workforce Development, Public Works and Military Affairs Committee. He will also serve on the Committee on Universities and Technical Colleges and Joint Legislative Council and is on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation board. The committee assignments were annouonced this week. […]
Military Advanced Education (MAE) has awarded Marian University the designation of a Top School in its 2015 MAE Guide to Colleges & Universities, measuring best practices in military and veteran education. The Guide will be released in the December issue of MAE, and will be available online at www.mae-kmi.com. The Guide presents results of a questionnaire of the military-supportive policies enacted at more than 600 institutions including private, public, for-profit, […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a series of daytime residential burglaries where thieves are looking for medications. Sheriff’s detective Pete Vergos says four burglaries of unoccupied homes have been reported in the last few weeks in the towns of Eldorado and Ripon. Vergos says the thieves are looking for medications and have also taken cash and jewelry. Anyone with information should call the Sheriff’s Office Tip […]
Nobody was injured in a fire in a trash compactor at Fond du lac’s Mercury Marine. Fire chief Pete O’Leary says firefighters were called to the scene near plant 17 shortly after 11am Friday. O'Leary says the trash bin was pulled away from the side of the building while crews worked to extinguish the blaze.
Fond du lac police are investigating an armed robbery at a gas station. Police say the Marathon gas station and convenience store on South Main Street was robbed shortly after 8pm Thursday. Police Lieutenant Tony Hahn told WFDL news at the scene a black male entered the store and displayed a handgun. No injuries were reported. Police are looking for a suspect.
Fond du Lac congressman Tom Petri is cosponsoring a bill that would raise the nation’s gas tax. Petri, a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, joined Rep. Earl Blumenauer at a press conference this week to call on Congress to raise the nation’s gas tax in order to save the failing Highway Trust Fund, which funds the United States transportation infrastructure. The UPDATE Act would phase […]
A Fond du lac city councilmember says he finds it unbelievable that at least some of the five police officers involved in extramarital affairs didn’t know the Department’s Core Values. A 300 page report made public this week following a civil court hearing says the officers violated all three of the Department’s core values of honor, integrity and professionalism. Offiers Joel Gudex, Curt Beck, Pamela O'Hearn, and Kristen Kachelmeier have […]