The president of the Cambria village board says the community is continuing to recover, a week after a fatal corn mill explosion. "Recovering quite well, actually," Village president Glenn Williams told WFDL news. "Its still quite a shock. The last two evenings the emergency response people met and did a debriefing with counselors." Williams lives close to the Didion Milling plant and says he felt the explosion. "When the […]
CAMBRIA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin company says a fourth worker has died after an explosion at its corn milling plant. Didion Milling released a statement saying 46-year-old Angel Reyes died Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. The company says Reyes was a pack operator at the plant and died from injuries he suffered in the explosion last week. The blast and fire destroyed the corn milling […]
J. F. Ahern Co. was featured in Contractor Magazine’s 2017 Book of Giants, ranking 18th out of the Top 100 mechanical contractors in the United States. Contractor Magazine also ranks Ahern as one of the top mechanical contractors in the Midwest coming in at number 4. The ranking is based on business revenue in HVAC, Plumbing, Piping, Sheet Metal, Fire Protection and other trades. J. F. Ahern Co. is […]
Fond du Lac’s oldest free summer brown bag lunch program feeds children and their families every Tuesday and Thursday through August 24. Barb Thill leads The Salvation Army Brown Bag Lunch Program which packed 12 tons of food into 12, 467 lunches last year. This tradition launched in 1993. 2,600 lunches were packed that first year; each subsequent summer, the program increased. This year’s projected total is 13,000. The […]
The Fond du Lac School District Board of Education recently reviewed and authorized the annual Fond du Lac School District Acuity Fund grant recipients. The Fond du Lac School District Acuity Fund supports new and innovative programs and projects proposed by staff members for their students. The District Acuity Fund became possible via money earned on funds paid to the District by Acuity for naming rights of the Fond du […]
CAMBRIA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin company says a fourth worker has died after an explosion at its corn milling plant. Didion Milling released a statement saying 46-year-old Angel Reyes died Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. The company says Reyes was a pack operator at the plant and died from injuries he suffered in the explosion last week. The blast and fire destroyed the corn milling […]
Six former and current Wisconsin Department of Corrections employees have been cited for taking too many walleye during a recent fishing excursion on Lake Erie. Deputy warden at the Green Bay Correctional Institution Steve Schueler, Columbia prison warden, Mike Dittman, retired Dodge Correctional sergeant Paul Neevel, retired Burke Center warden Craig Arndt, retired Oshkosh Correctional deputy warden Robert Hable and retired Waupun prison warden Mike Thurmer were cited May 23rd […]
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A Fond du Lac man convicted of driving drunk eleven times has been sentenced to 4½ years in prison. Steven Johnson will also serve five years of supervision once he's released from prison and perform 75 hours of community service. Despite 10 prior drunken driving convictions, police say Johnson had a valid drivers' license when he was arrested Jan. 1 after a crash in downtown Appleton. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State budget talks have hit an impasse in the Wisconsin Legislature. Republicans who control the Senate and Assembly are at odds over how much to spend on K-12 schools, how to pay for roads and whether to cut property taxes as much as Gov. Scott Walker wants. The Legislature's budget-writing committee has no meetings scheduled and Senate Republican leaders are openly talking about passing their own […]