Month: January 2017

A retired Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s deputy has resigned his post on the Taycheeda parks and recreation committee over a conflict with a fellow board member.  After retiring from the Sheriff’s Office John Abler had established a park patrol to clean up Kiekhaefer Park and patrol the trail.  The issue arose last fall when a sheriff’s deputy questioned Abler carrying a concealed weapon while patrolling the park and a […]

A private investment firm continues to work on plans for revitalizing the Fond du Lac Forest Mall.   The Texas based company that specializes in revitalizing small, distressed shopping centers   purchased the mall a year ago.  Community Development Director Dyann Benson says she expects to see changes in terms of any  new tenants, including the possibility of a major mall anchor sometime this summer.  "They're looking to determine what would be […]

The Fond du lac School Board president says while he voted in favor of a school administrator pay hike this year, that doesn’t mean its necessarily going to be automatic in future years.  School Board president Mark Jurgella voted in the majority when the  board this week voted 6-1 in favor of an across the board one percent pay hike.  "It had been budgeted for.  Our tax levy was going […]

DODGE CENTER, Minn. (AP) — Investigators from Minnesota Occupational Safety and Health will investigate an explosion at a truck manufacturing plant that injured several employees.  Authorities say six people were hurt in the explosion Wednesday morning at McNeilus Truck & Manufacturing in Dodge Center, in southeastern Minnesota.  McNeilus is part of Oshkosh Corp. in Wisconsin. An Oshkosh Corp. spokeswoman says five injured employees were "under medical care." She said she […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Federal investigators say a cockpit voice recorder recovered from Lake Erie captured the moments before a plane carrying six people crashed into the water nearly two weeks ago. The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that sounds from the entire flight were captured on the recording.  The agency says it will begin a detailed analysis of the recording from the business jet that crashed near Cleveland shortly […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of former Department of Natural Resources secretaries are urging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and legislators to reject a proposal to divide the agency and spread its responsibilities across state government.  Republican Rep. Adam Jarchow has proposed splitting the DNR into a new Department of Fish and Wildlife and a new Department of Environmental Protection. Three existing agencies would assume forestry, park and land acquisition […]

The first assistant chief of the Eldorado Fire Department was found dead yesterday at the fire station apparently from natural causes.   The Sheriff’s Office says the death of Rod Menne is  not suspicious.   A volunteer firefighter and plow driver found Menne in the station early Tuesday morning.  Menne was a past chief of the department and  was a volunteer  firefighter  for the  department for 30 years.