Month: March 2016

The Fond du Lac city council president says she is excited about a new Downtown Exploratory committee.  The city council formally approved the 17 member committee at their meeting  Wednesday night.   Council president Lee Ann Lorrigan says she was impressed with everyone to applied to serve on the committee.   Lorrigan says the number and quality of the applicants shows that Fond du Lac residents do care about the future of the downtown.  The committee […]

Unseasonably mild weather means an early start to the golf season.  The driving range at Fond du lac County’s Rolling Meadows golf course opened Tuesday and golf pro Jeremiah Hoffman says the course opened for play Wednesday.  Last year the course set a record for revenue and Hoffman says an early start is always helpful.  'We had a really good year last year, set some benchmarks in sales,"  Hoffman told WFDL news. In 1996 […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg is criticizing state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley over anti-gay opinion pieces Bradley wrote as a college student nearly 25 years ago.   Kloppenburg said Wednesday at a candidates' forum in downtown Milwaukee that Bradley's career hasn't shown evidence of change. Bradley repeated her apology for the opinions and said that her views are different today thanks to a "mosaic of life […]

A Fond du Lac man convicted of sexually assaulting a young child is going to spend a long time in prison.   At a hearing Tuesday Fond du lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced 28 year old Randall Robison to 20 years in prison and 20 years extended supervision.  The sentence will run  consecutive to time he is already serving for another offense.  Robison was earlier convicted of the repeated sexual assault of the same child.

The chairman of the Fond du Lac County Republican party has officially launched his campaign.  Dan Feyen announced last fall he was running for the 18th District state senate seat and he officially kicked off his campaign during a gathering of supporters Tuesday night at the Whispering Springs Golf Club in Fond du Lac.  "I've been out there doing a lot of town meetings, meeting with business owners, farmers, talking to voters,"  Feyen […]

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebeca Bradley wrote several columns on hot-button issues while in college, not just the one deriding gay people that she's apologized for this week. An Associated Press review of the Marquette University student newspaper uncovered columns by Bradley where she defends the school's Warriors mascot and criticizes political correctness as a "frightening trend." She wrote in April 1992 that "The PC movement is entirely the agenda of feminists, […]

Longtime Fond du lac Area Association of Commerce president Joe Reitemeier, has announced he is stepping down.  Reitemeyer announced he is retiring for personal reasons after 30 years at the helm.  Reitemeyer plans to serve as a consultant for the next six months as the search for a successor gets underway.  According to a press release the Association of Commerce executive committee will direct the agency until an interim president is named.

The former chairman of the Fond du Lac County Republican party says he remembers Nancy Reagan as one of the great first ladies in our nation’s history.  Reagan died over the weekend at the age of  94 from congestive heart failure.  Bernie Halbur was the Fond du Lac County Republican party chairman when Ronald and Nancy Reagan made a campaign stop locally during his run for president in 1980.  Halbur says he remembers Nancy […]

An assistant Fond du Lac Fire Chief says its equipment he hopes the department never has to use.  Todd Janquardt says the department recently purchased 25 bullet-proof vests and helmets to use when responding to the scene of potentially violent encounters.  Janquardt says with an increase of shooting incidents across the country, firefighters and paramedics are more at risk when they arrive on the scene.