The North Fond du Lac School Board has approved a preliminary budget. Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says third Friday enrollment counts show 60 new students in the district resulting in an increase in state aid. "No thanks to Madison because the reason we are going to be able to have a balanced budget is because we have increased enrollment," Sadoff told WFDL news. "If we didn't have increased enrollment than […]
The Fond du lac city council president says she doesn’t anticipate the council making any changes in a proposed city budget. The council discussed the budget at a workshop session earlier this month. The budget includes a 2.5 percent increase in the tax rate with a 4.6 percent levy increase. "We know about the major projects, operating costs are flat," council president Lee Ann Lorrigan told WFDL news. Meanwhile Lorrigan […]
Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he believes Governor Scott Walker had to end his short-lived presidential bid because his campaign ran out of money. "What we now know is that he was very deeply in debt," Grothman told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. "Scott Walker is a very bright guy but there's a first time for everybody and everybody the first time you do something you make mistakes […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two of the three judges running for a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say they won't seek an appointment by Gov. Scott Walker to fill out the final 10 months of Justice Patrick Crooks' term. State Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg and Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Joe Donald both say they will not apply by Friday's deadline to be appointed by Walker. Appeals Court […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic state senator has drawn up a pair of bills that would ban hunting and limit the types of mechanisms trappers can use in state parks. Sen. Fred Risser of Madison says park visitors shouldn't have to worry about being shot and trapping is inhumane. One bill would ban hunting in the parks completely. The other would outlaw steel-jawed traps, body-gripping raps and snares.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin transportation officials are delaying work on five major road projects because the state budget didn't lay out enough money for them. The stalled projects include reconstructing Highway 10/441 in the Fox Valley; expanding Interstate 39/90 from Madison to Illinois; reconstructing the Verona Road Interchange in Madison; reconstructing Highway 15 near New London; and completing long-running work on Highway 23 between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin may have a reputation as a major producer of milk and cheese. But the state also produces nearly half of the U.S. supply of green beans. And federal agriculture officials predict this fall's crop will be a good one. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has forecast Wisconsin's crop at more than 320,000 tons — up about 6 percent from last year and the best crop […]
A Fond du Lac woman is back home after completing the anchor leg of a cross country race to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research. Amy Van Dyke, Melissa Schmidt and Rick Schmidt all participated in the cross country relay called MS Run US. Van Dyke ran more than 180 miles from Pennsylvania to New York. "I ran from Sunbury Pennsylvania to New York City, 185 miles, seven marathons through […]
A spokesman for Mercury Marine says no final decision has been made yet on where the weigh-in will be held for next summer’s Fond du Lac Walleye Weekend Merc National Walleye fishing tournament. For the last couple of years the weigh-in has been held at the Lakeside Park lighthouse…but a survey showed a majority of the anglers wanted to return to Oven Island, now that the channels have been dredged. […]