Month: September 2017

The Fond du Lac Fire chief says seatbelts may have prevented more serious injuries or worse in a series of automobile crashes in Fond du Lac this week.  Fond du Lac rescue personnel responded to four crashes Monday afternoon, including a rollover, car versus building and rear end collision.  Fire chief Pete O’Leary says he can’t remember that many crashes in such a short period of time.  "Its unprecedented,"  O'Leary […]

A Fond du Lac High School student faces expulsion after making a threat targeting the homecoming football game last Friday night.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police were made aware of the threat after other people  saw the post and reported it.  "I give credit to the individuals that saw the post and took them seriously and reached out to law enforcement,"  Klein told WFDL news.  Klein says police […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Wildlife managers say Minnesota's wolf population appears to have grown by 25 percent.  The Department of Natural Resources on Monday released its 2016-2017 population survey. It estimates that Minnesota had about 500 packs and 2,856 wolves at midwinter. The margin of error is plus or minus 500 wolves.  Minnesota's wolf population had been stable in the four previous surveys. The DNR attributes the increase since the 2015-2016 […]

BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is accusing Walmart of failing to accommodate a longtime employee at a Wisconsin store because of his disability. The agency alleges Walmart suspended and failed to accommodate a deaf employee with visual impairment at a Beloit store. The EEOC says a new manager suspended cart-pusher Paul Reina and forced him to resubmit medical paperwork. Walmart says it is open to […]

A Fond du Lac woman has died in an apparent accidental drowning.  The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says 58 year old Tammy Eichhorn drowned in a residential swimming pool on Briar Court in the town of Byron.   Rescue personnel were called to the scene about 4:30pm Monday for a report of an unresponsive female in the pool.  Resuscitation efforts by paramedics were unsuccessful.

Fond du Lac rescue personnel were busy responding to several motor vehicle crashes in Fond du lac Monday afternoon, but fortunately there  were no serious injuries.    Paramedics were called to a one vehicle rollover crash at Doty and Johnson Streets,  a  two vehicle crash at Satterlee and Brooke Streets and a car that hit thecurb and crashed into the side of the Super 8 motel on Pioneer Road.  Nobody was […]

The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin is participating in National Voter Registration Day Tuesday.  League executive director Andrea Kaminski  says local leagues in communities across the state will be assisting voters with MyVote.wi.gov, the recently launched voter registration system in Wisconsin.  Kaminiski says recent changes in state law have made it difficult for many people to register to vote.  In Fond du Lac residents can get information Tuesday at […]

A new AAA study finds that truck safety technology could prevent thousands of crashes each year.  State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that advanced safety technologies have the potential to prevent more than  60,000 truck related crashes each year.  The study examined the safety benefits and costs of installing lane departure warning systems, automatic emergency braking, air disc brakes and video […]

The doors officially open Tuesday following a major expansion at Waupun Memorial Hospital.  Hospital chief operating officer DeAnn Thurmer says  the $23 million,  two story, nearly 53,000 square foot addition will house medical-surgical patient rooms, intensive care, labor-delivery and postpartum rooms.   An open house was held Sunday.