Month: April 2017

Following a successful referendum last fall, Waupun School officials have announced a series of groundbreaking events on building projects starting next month.  Superintendent Tanya Gubin says the first project will be a new athletic complex at the junior-senior high school.  Gubin says  groundbreaking for the athletic complex will be held on Wednesday May 3rd at the Waupun Junior-Senior High School.  Groundbreaking will be held Monday May 15th at Meadow View […]

The North Fond du Lac School District is getting an early start to planning for next year’s budget.   The school board held a workshop session this week to begin planning for the 2017-18 budget.  Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says initial estimates show a budget deficit of $125,000 to $150,000 but a lot still depends on the state budget.   "We don't truly know what to expect until we get that done," […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he hopes President Donald Trump's aggressive negotiating style will get Canadian officials to delay policy changes that will evaporate the demand for Wisconsin milk producers.  Walker said Wednesday that Trump's retaliatory move to impose tariffs on Canadian lumber was aggressive but appreciated.  Dozens of Wisconsin dairy farmers lost a market for their milk after Canada announced plans to change its dairy pricing […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A proposal designed to give the Republican-controlled Legislature more of a voice in the crafting of a Wisconsin state education accountability plan has won committee approval. But its chances of passing the full Legislature are dim.  The Assembly Education Committee passed the measure Wednesday on a party-line vote, with all Republicans in support and Democrats against. But Senate Education Committee Chairman Sen. Luther Olsen says he […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he won't remove Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke from office after an inmate in his jail died of dehydration after being without water for seven days.  Walker said Wednesday while the reports of the 2016 death were troubling, it's up to voters to decide Clarke's fate.  Voces de la Frontera, an immigrant rights group, petitioned Walker to use a law that gives […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former Milwaukee Bucks cheerleader who claimed in a lawsuit that she and her colleagues were underpaid has reached a settlement with the team but the organization maintains it did nothing wrong.  The settlement agreement filed Wednesday calls for the Bucks to pay $10,000 to Lauren Herington, who filed a class-action lawsuit in 2015. The Bucks will pay $115,000 for her attorneys' fees and another $125,000 to […]

STURGEON BAY, Wis. (AP) — The invasive emerald ash borer is killing thousands of trees in Door County, one of Wisconsin's top tourism destinations.  Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials tell Wisconsin Public Radio the highly destructive beetles have killed tens of millions of trees across the country since first being spotted in North America in 2002. The beetle was discovered in Door County in 2014.  According to the U.S. […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says a malfunction caused the tornado sirens on the city's southside to sound inadvertently Wednesday afternoon.  People may have heard the sirens at around 2pm Wednesday.  Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says there was a malfunction that caused the sirens to sound and that an electrician was called to correct the problem.

A woman escaped a fire that damaged her home in Beaver Dam by jumping from a second story window.  Firefighters were called to the scene at 115 Chatham Street in the City of Beaver Dam shortly after 4am Wednesday to find  the first floor of the home fully involved in fire.  A woman and lone occupant of the house escaped the fire by jumping from the second floor balcony.  The […]