Santa will be making his annual visit to North Fond du Lac on Monday, December 7th. Santa and his elves will leave the police department and begin a tour of the Village at 5:30PM. In addition to cruising through the neighborhoods in a police car, Santa will make brief stops at Tot Park, LeMieux Park and Optimists Park to hand out candy canes to children. After his neighborhood visits, […]
Journeys: a health resource center and the Fond du Lac Public Library are excited to join a nationwide movement to make books accessible to everyone through a new Take a Book, Leave a Book exchange starting January first. Take a Book, Leave a Book will replace the full-service library branch that has been operating at Journeys since 2011. The exchange welcomes everyone to take and leave books as they like, […]
Residents and officials from the Mayville and Horicon School Districts filled the Mayville Middle School Auditorium Monday night to learn more about the financial and legal aspects of a potential consolidation of the two school districts at a joint meeting of the school boards. Mike Clark from Robert W. Baird laid out fiscal projections for both districts and then compared that data with fiscal projections of a consolidated district. Generally […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel says a Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to get hospital admitting privileges is unconstitutional. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision Monday, upholding a federal judge in Madison who struck down the law in March. Planned Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services challenged the law in 2013, arguing it would force AMS' Milwaukee clinic to […]
There’s been a change at the top among the Republican presidential candidates in the latest Marquette University Law School poll. The latest poll conducted right after the presidential debate in Milwaukee shows in Wisconsin Ben Carson leads with 22 percent followed by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio at 19 percent. Poll director Charles Franklin says Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains the lead among the Democratic presidential candidates. Meanwhile Franklin says its […]
The Fond du Lac School superintendent says he doesn’t see a need for a bill that would require data about crimes committed on school grounds to be more readily available for parents and others to view alongside test scores and graduation rates. One bill calls for all public high schools, as well as those in the voucher and charter school programs to report crime data for inclusion in the state […]
The Fond du Lac city council will discuss what to do about a vacancy on council when they meet Tuesday night. Brian Foster stepped down effective at the end of the last council meeting earlier this month. The council can decide whether to accept applications and fill the vacancy or leave the position open until the April election next year. In the past the council has appointed someone to fill […]
Waupun residents will have an opportunity to comment on a proposed budget. A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for Tuewsday. Waupun Finance director, Jerad Oosterhouse says newly created separate funds will help the city plan better for infrastructure improvements. Oosterhouse says the proposed tax levy is up about $95,000. Oosterhouse says one of the major street reconstruction projects in 2016 involves a portion of West Main Street.
A convicted child sex offender is moving to a new location in Fond du lac. Christopher Hensler was released from prison in July after serving time for sexually assaulting two teenage girls. Fond du Lac police say Hensler will be moving to 186 East Johnson Street Tuesday. Hensler must follow several rules including lifetime GPS monitoring, no contact with the victims, no unsupervised contact with minors and no alcohol or […]