Month: May 2016

A Fond du Lac County committee has approved a resolution authorizing the county and UW Fond du Lac to approve a new developer for a student housing project.  County Director of Administration, Erin Gerred, says Madison based MDC in association with MPEG LLC would be the developer.  BMOC, or Best Management on Campus, would operate the facility.  The latest proposal calls for substantially increasing the size of the student housing building, from 84 beds to […]

The Fond du Lac city council has forwarded a proposal to allow pet dogs in city parks to the Advisory Park Board for review.  Councilmember Brian Kolstad says there would be areas in parks where dogs would not be allowed to help alleviate any concerns people may have.  "Playgrounds would be one area, amphitheaters would be another,"  Kolstad said.  "There's really no rational reason why you shouldn't have a dog in a park." […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has approved an emergency rule that allows people waiting for state photo identification cards to vote with receipts showing they're trying to obtain an ID.  The governor signed the rule Wednesday. The move comes days before a federal trial is set to begin in a lawsuit alleging Wisconsin's process for obtaining free state IDs is too onerous. A Walker spokesman didn't immediately respond […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Faculty Senate has passed a resolution expressing no confidence in UW system leaders.  The vote Wednesday afternoon was 24-1.   After the vote, UW-Green Bay Chancellor Gary Miller said he respects the faculty senate's right to express its concerns, but that he "cannot support this action."  Similar votes have been held recently on other campuses, including UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.  UW faculty […]

Alliance Laundry Systems of Ripon has announced the largest expansion project in company history.  The leading global commercial laundry equipment provider, announced Thursday a proposed $62.6 million expansion to its Ripon campus has been formally approved by the company’s Board of Directors.  The company is receiving economic incentives from the state, Fond du lac County and city of Ripon.  The project will add 225,000 square feet of new buildings including the construction of a […]

Julie Moyer (right), of Fond du Lac, is this year’s grand prize winner in the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation’s Samaritan $150,000 Cash Raffle. She is congratulated with her $100,000 grand prize by Holly Brenner, Agnesian HealthCare Foundation president. A Fond du Lac woman is the grand prize winner of the Fond du Lac Samaritan Health Clinic Cash Raffle.   During a raffle drawing over the lunch hour Wednesday Julie Moyer’s name was picked […]

Emergency 911 and Sheriff’s Office administrative calls were back on line after a few hours following a power failure Wednesday morning in the Fond du Lac County Communications Center.  Fond du lac County Emergency Management director Jim McNabb says the power failure occurred Wednesday morning during a test of the system.  McNabb says the county’s back-up system worked as designed.   Calls were routed through the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center until the problem was fixed.

A Fond du lac man convicted last week in an armed robbery is going to prison.  At a sentencing hearing Tuesday afternoon Fond du lac Judge Peter Grimm sentenced Ronald Loving to 15 years in prison and 20 years of extended supervision.  The judge also ordered six years probation.  Loving was convicted in connection with the robbery of the Highway 151 Mobile gas station last summer.   Assistant DA, Dennis Krueger, says the sentence is appropriate. […]

A Milwaukee man has been charged in the drug overdose  death of a Fond du Lac County man.  Stephen Jordan made his initial Fond du lac court appearance Tuesday on a charge of first degree reckless homicide/delivery of drugs.  Judge Robert Wirtz ordered a $1000 signature bond because Jordan was already in custody in Milwaukee County.  Jordan is accused of supplying the heroin that led to the overdose death of an Oakfield […]