Roads are slippery in the Fond du lac area. No serious injuries were reported in a head on crash at Military and Pioneer Road shortly before 7am. Ambulances have responded to a couple reports of people falling on slippery sidewalks.
A little over a month after voting down an across the board pay hike for administrators the Fond du Lac school board has reversed its decision. At their meeting Monday night the board voted 6-1 to give school administrators a one percent pay hike. Board member Peggy Breister cast the only vote against the increase. Breister says administrators are already well paid and she was concerned that an across […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice wants raises of more than $20,000 a year for herself and other judges, saying judicial pay in Wisconsin is among the lowest in the country. Chief Justice Pat Roggensack is asking Gov. Scott Walker to include a 16 percent pay hike in his upcoming budget proposal. Her proposal would cost $6.4 million a year. Roggensack would increase pay for circuit […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of four national finalists for Teacher of the Year hails from Wisconsin, the first time that's happened since 1967. Sun Prairie Area School District middle school music teacher and band director Chris Gleason is one of the four finalists. He was announced as Wisconsin's middle school teacher of the year in September and the Council of Chief State School Officers announced Monday that he was […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel wants to give a raise to every prosecutor in the state in each of the next two years. Schimel says he's asked Gov. Scott Walker to use $4.8 million in revenue from consumer protection lawsuit settled by the Department of Justice to pay prosecutors. If Walker agrees, the raises would be included in the governor's 2017-2019 state budget proposal. District attorneys […]
Two Fond du Lac residents are recovering after being poisoned by carbon monoxide. Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says paramedics were called to a residence on Pioneer Parkway for a report of two people who were feeling sick. "The poeple had flu-like symptoms but when we took one of our monitors, tested the air in the house, we found very high levels of carbon monoxide in the home," O'Leary told […]
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says traffic fatalities increased by nearly six percent in 2016. Wisconsin ended the year with 588 traffic fatalities, which was 33 more than 2015 and 40 more than the five-year average. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says the were 12 traffic fatalities in Dodge County last year up from 11 the year before. In Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says […]
The Fond du Lac School District will again be offering a half-day, 4-year-old-kindergarten (4K) experience for Fall 2017. Children who will be 4 years old on or by September 1, 2017, are eligible to attend. There will be classrooms at the following District elementary schools: Chegwin, Evans, Pier, Riverside, Rosenow, and Waters. Programs will also be offered at the following community partner sites: Bright Beginnings Academy, Camelot Children’s Center, Christian […]
A Fond du Lac city council representative on the Historic Preservation Commission says he wants to see the historic Octagon House saved. A Fond du Lac judge last week ordered foreclosure of the house which dates back to the mid 1800s. Councilmember Brian Kolstad says he hopes the house is purchased and renovated. Kolstad says he wants the Historic Preservation Commission and City Council to discuss potential options for […]