Month: February 2017

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Superintendent Tony Evers says his victory in Tuesday's primary is a win for the state's 860,000 public school students.  Evers was the top vote-getter in the primary, with former Beloit Superintendent Lowell Holtz coming in a distance second. Holtz and Evers will face each other April 4.  Holtz is running as the conservative candidate in the officially nonpartisan race. Holtz supports expanding the private school […]

A challenger is the top vote getter in the race for town of Taycheeda board chair.  Joseph Thome will square off against incumbent board chair Jerry Guelig in the April election.  Thome received 238 votes and Guelig got 107 votes in Tuesday’s primary election.  Six candidates advance to the spring election for three seats on the Ripon School Board.  Amy Pollesch(460), Kim Mack (332), Jennifer Vande Brink Dudzinski (330), Thomas […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is recommending spending $803 million on state building projects over the next two years, with nearly $450 million of the funding coming from new borrowing. Walker says the capital budget he released Tuesday prioritizes investment in current facilities and limits new construction.  Projects to be funded that Walker highlights include a $75 million replacement for the Wisconsin Department of Justice's crime lab in […]

More record high temps are expected across Wisconsin Wednesday.   National Weather Service meteorologist Mark Gehring says temperatures throughout Wisconsin are more than double the average for this time of year.  "Temperatures for the Fond du Lac area will be upper 60s,"  Gehring told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program.  "Some areas in southern Wisconsin, maybe close to Fond du Lac, could get near 70."   Gehring says its […]

Three time Grammy award winning blues rock singer-songwriter Delbert McClinton is coming to Fond du lac.   The announcement was made last night at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts annual meeting.  Thelma director Kevin Miller says McClinton will be performing a free outdoor concert at the Thelma on Saturday August 12th.

The Waupun police chief says last week’s federal indictment  of three individuals shows that methamphetamine is a problem in our area.   Two men, from Juneau and Columbus and an Eau Claire woman face charges of possession and distribution of methamphetamine.  Waupun police chief Dale Heeringa says some of the transactions occurred in the city of Waupun.   "We are showing up methamphetamines in our community on a limited basis," […]

A Beaver Dam man has received the maximum sentence for threatening police.   Dodge County Circuit judge Joseph Sciascia sentenced 47 year old Steven Bilke, to six years in prison and four years extended supervision for threats to law enforcement and disorderly conduct.  Last May officers responded to a domestic incident in Beaver Dam where Bilke confronted them. Bilke then threatened three officers with a barrage of profanities later that day […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation would have to account for inflation in its cost estimates for highway projects under a bill by the Legislature's Audit Committee. The panel introduced the measure Tuesday at the conclusion of a hearing on a scathing audit of the Transportation Department. One of the biggest problems the audit found was that the department did not account for inflation that led to […]

Daniel Herdt was selected as Marian University's Veteran of the Month for February.   Herdt served in the U.S. Air Force for more than 15 years, from 1973-1988, and enjoyed traveling from New York to Alaska, and even Portugal, during his service. In addition, Herdt was awarded the Longevity Achievement medal.   The Veteran of the Month contest, presented by Marian University and Sunny 97.7/96.1 WTCX, highlights one area veteran […]