Month: March 2015

Brenda Schaefer of Moraine Park Technical College has been selected by the Wisconsin Campus Compact (WiCC) to receive the 2015 Sister Joel Read Civic Engagement Practitioners Award. The Sister Joel Read Civic Engagement Practitioners Award recognizes outstanding faculty or staff members of WiCC member institutions who have made significant contributions to civic engagement on their campus. The purpose of this award is to honor practitioners who have built successful campus-community […]

The 2015 Ripon Home Show will be held on Saturday March 28th from 11am-3pm at the Royal Ridges Conference Center located on Hwy. 23 West in Ripon.  The event will feature area businesses that showcase products and services for homeowners, or leisure activities that everyone can enjoy.  Admission to the 2015 Ripon Home Show is simply a donation of food or a good will offering to be given to the […]

Evans Elementary School’s Student Council recently organized a collection of items for the Help for the Homeless Drive.  The drive was conducted from March 9-13 and the Student Council was able to collect approximately 200 hygiene items that were donated to support this drive. Evans Student Council members (L-R) are: Tylea Klewicki (5th), Robyn Peterson (5th), Taylor Abitz (5th), Carter Juedes (5th), Dominic James (5th), Sam Kuhls (4th), Alyssandra Baumann (4th), […]

A fixture on the Fond du Lac County farm scene for the past nearly three decades is stepping down.  Fond du lac County Crops and Soils extension agent Mike Rankin says he is retiring at the end of the month and will pack his saddle bags to work for a farm magazine based out of Fort Atkinson.  Rankin will be working as the managing editor for Hay and Forage Grower […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee and another Republican member of the panel say they want to lower a proposed cut to the University of Wisconsin System while doing away with Gov. Scott Walker's plans to grant it more independence.  Joint Finance Committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren and Rep. Dean Knudson said in a statement Wednesday that they do not believe university administrators are ready […]

Republican legislators say the governor’s proposed budget is balanced and reduces property taxes while Democrats say it’s a budget that sets up a presidential run for Governor Scott Walker.  The legislature’s  Jt. Finance Committee listened to public testimony Wednesday at the first of several public hearings scheduled at different locations across the state.  Republican state representative Joan Ballweg says the budget would do what governor has said he wants to […]

BRILLION, Wis. (AP) — Parents and school administrators are speaking out against proposed reductions in aid to public schools included in Gov. Scott Walker's two-year spending plan.  The Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee held the first of four public hearings on Walker's budget proposal Wednesday in Brillion.  Educators, parents and school board members told the committee to fund public schools and stop the expansion of vouchers. School administrators decried the loss […]

A Lomira woman has been charged in connection with a fatal traffic crash in Fond du lac County last summer.  Twenty six year old Heather Cleveland made her initial Fond du lac court appearance Wednesday on a charge of homicide by negligient operation of a motor vehicle.  Bail was set at $2000 cash.  A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 30th.  Investigators say last June 25th  Cleveland was texting on […]