Month: December 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislative committee has approved a bill that would lift Wisconsin's moratorium on new nuclear power plants. Under current law, state regulators can't approve a new nuclear power plant unless a federal storage facility for waste from nuclear plants nationwide exists and the plant wouldn't burden ratepayers. No centralized federal repository exists. Nuclear plants have been storing waste on-site. Wisconsin is currently home to only one […]

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker joins a growing number of Republicans publicly opposing presidential candidate Donald Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Walker, who abandoned his own presidential campaign in September, was in Chippewa Falls Tuesday where said the country's founding principles are based on protecting religious liberties, so he disagrees with Trump's proposal.  Trump on Monday called for a "total and complete […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is hinting that he may be running for a third term.  Walker told to the state chamber of commerce in a speech Wednesday that he will unveil ideas next month in his State of the State speech for listening to Wisconsin residents and business owners.  Walker says the initiative will look at what the goals should be for the state and what businesses […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state Sen. Alberta Darling says she is running for re-election next year.  The 71-year-old Darling announced her plans to run for a seventh Senate term Wednesday. Darling says she had originally planned to retire, but that changed after her husband died in March.  Darling says in her job as co-chair of the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee she is at the peak of her career in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources officials say hunters have turned over far fewer deer heads for chronic wasting disease testing than they had by this time last year.  DNR Wildlife Administrator Tom Hauge told the agency's board on Wednesday that hunters had donated 2,561 deer for sampling as of Monday. That's half the samples donated by the same point in 2014.  The DNR mandated all hunters […]

Get those clubs out of the basement…for the first time in its history the  Rolling Meadows Golf Course  in Fond du Lac has reopened for some late fall golf.  Rolling Meadows Golf Pro Jeremiah Hoffman says there was only one time in recent memory where the course actually stayed open into December.  "In 2009 we were open on December 2nd and then we got a foot of snow the next […]

Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue has received a $3,000 fire prevention grant from FM Global, one of the world’s largest commercial property insurers.  A FM Global representative will present the award to Division Chief Troy Haase on December 10, 2015 at 9 a.m. at Station 1 located at 815 South Main Street in Fond du Lac, WI. The award will be used to assist with pre-fire planning to efficiently collect and […]

 The Salvation Army "mini" red kettles sit atop 87 counters throughout the County, cheerfully collecting change to help families in need in 2016.  John Pellitier, Salvation Advisory Counter Kettle Coordinator (pictured with a kettle) has coordinated the mini kettles for seven years and knows that big things come from the little kettles.  The little kettle on Subway on West Johnson St. held a $100 bill this week, for the fourth […]

Town of Eldorado residents will be traveling by school bus to Milwaukee next week to show their opposition to the proposed placement of a Milwaukee sex offender in a Fond du Lac County home.  A supervised release placement hearing for Clint Rhymes will be held next Wednesday in Milwaukee County Circuit Court. Earl Degner lives on Nitschke Road…just a few houses away from where Rhymes would be placed.  Rhymes spent […]