Join the Gottfried Prairie and Arboretum with Jed Meunier, ecologist and research scientist with the Wisconsin DNR, to explore Aldo Leopold’s advocacy of prescribed fire to conserve and restore native systems on Wednesday, March 15, at 7:00PM, Room UC114, UW-Fond du Lac, 400 University Drive, Fond du Lac. Aldo Leopold became an early advocate of fire as a management tool and initiated some of the first formal restoration attempts […]
The owner of three scrap metal companies accused of defrauding a Fond du lac scrap metal company out of millions of dollars has posted $1 million cash bond. Sterling Kienbaum is charged with racketeering and theft. He made his initial court appearance Monday. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 16th. According to a criminal complaint Kienbaum is accused of stealing $14 million from Sadoff Iron and Metal […]
Longtime Fond du lac County Board supervisor Paul Levandowski has died. Levandowski died Saturday after suffering a stroke. Fond du lac County executive Al Buechel says Levandowski had served a total of 13 years on the board. He was first elected 2002, went off the board in 2008 when the size of the board was reduced, and was elected to the board again in 2010. Levandowski served on a […]
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a case involving a drunken driving crash that seriously injured a bicyclist in Fond du lac County. Last August a Wisconsin Appeals court reversed Fond du lac judge Gary Sharpe’s decision to toss out Adam Blackman’s .10 percent blood-alcohol test results. Sharpe said Blackman was compelled to give a sample under a coercive portion of the state’s implied consent law. The appellate court concluded that […]
Nobody was injured in a fire at the Mayville fire station. Firefighters were alerted Saturday night by a passer-by who reported seeing flames at the station. The volunteer fire department said crews arrived to find a vehicle on fire inside the building. The fire was contained to the vehicle and the station was ventilated due to the heavy smoke.
One of nine people arrested in a major heroin bust has been bound over for trial. Allen Ferguson waived his preliminary hearing Friday on 16 counts of manufacture deliver of heroin. Ferguson waived his preliminary hearing Friday in Fond du Lac County circuit court. Ferguson is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $5 million cash bond. Fond du lac police chief Bill Lamb says Ferguson was […]
A convicted child sex offender is moving to a new location In Fond du lac. Police say James Miller will be living At 186 East Johnson Street starting this week. Miller was released from prison in December after serving time for sexually assaulting a child and delivering cocaine. Miller was convicted of sexually assaulting two girls ages six and eight. Miller must comply with a number of special conditions including […]
Fond du lac Festivals is proposing a county fair-style Midway featuring amusement rides, games and food trailers at Walleye Weekend. Under the proposal Fond du lac Festivals would hire Spectrum Entertainment of Ironwood, Michigan to run the Midway. The Fond du lac Advisory Park Board is recommending approval of the request for a one year trial period. Parks superintendent John Redmond says the Midway would be located in a […]
The National Weather Service says last month was the warmest February in Wisconsin on record. National Weather Service Meteorologist Ben Herzog says there have been several extended stretches of days with above normal temperatures this winter. Herzog says both January and February were above normal for temperatures. "Record setting warmth for southern Wisconsin in February," Herzog told WFDL news.