Month: August 2015

The Fond du Lac city council will consider vacating Rogersville  Road near Mills Fleet Farm.  Public Works Director Jordan Skiff says the intersection of Rogersville Road and Military Road would be eliminated, realigning the intersection of Sullivan Drive and Pioneer Road.  Rogersville Road would service Fleet Farm customers serving as a dead end street.  Skiff says the next phase of the Pioneer Road reconstruction project includes a roundabout at Pioneer […]

Fond du Lac police arrested a 17 year old boy shortly after he escaped  from the Fond du Lac County Health Care Center.  Assistant police chief  Steve Thiry, says the incident happened shortly after 9:30am Tuesday morning.   The subject was located outside Roberts School and taken into custody without further incident.  Thiry says  the subject was not armed and not posing a threat to anyone.  Thiry says rumors of […]

The Kids from Wisconsin will return to Fond du Lac for their 21st   annual free appearance at Buttermilk Creek Park on Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 7:15 p.m. Their high-spirited performance features 20 singer/dancers and a 13-piece band, all chosen by audition from among the State’s finest young musicians. This year’s show features a “Hometown” theme: “No Place We’d Rather Be,” and includes the music of Frank Sinatra, Journey, Chicago, Carole […]

The team and Melvin announced the move Tuesday on Twitter. He will continue to lead the team's baseball operations department before "transitioning into an advisory role."  The Brewers are in last place in the NL Central and are in Chicago to start a three-game series with the Cubs.  Milwaukee is rebuilding, having traded Carlos Gomez and Aramis Ramirez at the July 31 trade deadline. Melvin fired manager Ron Roenicke in […]

GERMANTOWN, Wis. (AP) — Forecasters say a weak tornado touched down in Washington County, but there were no injuries or significant damage.  The National Weather Service classified the tornado as an EF0, which developing Monday afternoon near Germantown. Several people in the area watched as the funnel began forming.  Jason Brandenburg says he could tell it was a lot more than a low-hanging rain cloud. It started dropping down and forming […]

CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says the Republican presidential field failed to mention "one word" about making college affordable during last week's GOP debate.  Clinton is pitching her new $350 billion plan to address higher education costs and student debt during a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.  She singled out Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, telling voters that he delighted in slashing money for higher education in his […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is seeking a federal disaster designation for three Wisconsin counties where farmers lost nearly a third of their ginseng crop this spring.  Walker's office on Tuesday asked U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for the designation for Langlade, Lincoln and Marathon counties. Walker's office says ginseng farmers in those counties lost 28 percent of their crop and half of their seed due […]

The just-finalized Clean Power Plan from the Environmental Protection Agency places the first-ever limits on dangerous carbon pollution emissions from existing power plants, which the agency says will curb climate-change pollution and protect public health. Keith Reopelle is with the state’s largest environmental group, Clean Wisconsin. He says E-P-A estimates show the new limits will result in a healthier Wisconsin. The E-P-A’s proposed goal of carbon emission reductions of 41-percent […]

A new report shows there were nearly 240 reports of bullying in the Fond du Lac School District last school year.  The annual Climate Report says there were 46 bullying incidents at the elementary level, 150 at the Middle Schools and 41 at Fond du Lac High School.  Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says a separate survey found 10 percent of 8th, 10th and 11th graders said they did not attend […]