Two incumbents have been re-elected to the Waupun School Board. Jennie Patrykus was the top vote getter with 926 votes. Dylan Weber was re-elected to another three year term with 752 votes. Challenger Steven Chene received 581 votes.Tanya Marcoe and Paul Derks were elected to the Oakfield School Board, Amy Pollesch, Thomas Stellmacher and Josh Rieder were elected to the Ripon School Board and Ryan Basler and Beth Redeker came […]
There will be some new faces in Taycheeda town government following Tuesday’s election. Kristin Marcoe defeated Ann Simon in the race for town clerk. Marcoe received 609 votes to 143 for Simon. Tim Simon and Bill Guis were elected town board supervisors and Joseph Thome defeated Jerry Guelig 638 votes to 425 votes in the race for town chairman.
Nearly 300 students at Laconia High School in Rosendale have signed a pledge to keep their eyes on the road and not on their phones. Laconia High School is teaming up with AT&T, AAA and the Wisconsin State Patrol as part of the It Can Wait® campaign to remind students that smartphone activity should wait until after driving. State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says students were able to experience the […]
An elderly Campbellsport woman was killed and an elderly man was critically injured in a car vs. tree crash in Campbellsport. The crash happened Tuesday morning at the intersection of Helena Street and East Main Street in the village of Campbellsport. A preliminary investigation indicates the vehicle was northbound on Helena Street at a high rate of speed when it travelled off the roadway for unknown reasons and […]
The Wisconsin State Assembly has recognized Jodi Schmidt from Oakfield as a “Hometown Hero.” Schmidt, a third grade teacher at Oakfield Elementary School, was nominated by State Representative, Jeremy Thiesfeldt, for donating one of her kidneys to 8-year-old student, Natasha Fuller. "Its truly a gift that I don;t know how anybody could ever pay something back like that," Thiesfeldt told WFDL news. Fuller suffered from a rare kidney disease […]
Veteran suicide awareness is the focus of a two day event in Fond du Lac next month. Marian University and Moraine Park Technical College are teaming up to raise awareness of the veteran suicide rate. The event will kick-off Friday evening April 21sst at Moraine Park with the showing of the documentary, Project 22. The documentary follows two veterans on a cross country motorcycle ride to raise awareness about veteran […]
(Fond du Lac, Wis.) – Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-Glenbeulah) today announced upcoming town hall meetings for April 10-11, 2017. Town hall meeting times and locations are as follows: Monday, April 10, 2017 10:00-11:00 a.m. Mead Public Library 710 North 8th Street Sheboygan, WI 53081 2:00-3:00 p.m. Valders Community Center 420 N Liberty Street Valders, WI 54245 Tuesday, April 11, 2017 9:30-10:30 a.m. Marquette County Senior Dining Site 140 […]
Darren Thompson, a Native American flute player, educator and journalist from the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Wisconsin, will give a presentation at 12:30 p.m. and present a concert at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Apr. 12 in the UW-Fond du Lac Prairie Theater, 400 University Drive, Fond du Lac. Both events are free and open to the community. No reservations required. Thompson has spent most of his adult […]
Back to School FDL is seeking to expand their list of volunteers who can donate any amount of time to this community-wide collaboration that takes place every year in August. Of course, leading up to Distribution Day, many people are needed to ensure that: supplies are collected and sorted, families are registered, money is raised to purchase the supplies, the community is aware of when the event takes place, and […]