Month: October 2017

Wed., Nov. 1, 2017, the Series will present its  third performance of our Fall 2017  Series.  The world class artists are as follows:   Todd Levy--Principal Clarinetist of the Milwaukee Symphony; Wei-Ting Kuo--violist with the Chicago Symphony; Jeannie Yu---Collaborative Pianist, and Award Winning Pianist-Milwaukee. The Trio will be performing the following compositions: Mozart---Trio in Eb,"Kegelstadtt" Brahms--Sonata in f Minor for Clarinet and Piano Bruch--Three Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano […]

Fond du Lac area residents and their families are invited to join St. Agnes Hospital from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 5 as it offers tours of its new Women & Infants birthing rooms.  Guests can arrive through St. Agnes Hospital’s main entrance and will be directed to the new area on the hospital’s sixth floor. The new Women & Infants area will open after a November […]

U.S. Senators Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a combat veteran, issued the following statements after President Trump signed into law the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act: Sen. Johnson: “Chris Kirkpatrick did the right and honorable thing when he raised concerns about the over-prescription of opioids to veterans. Today we are sending a strong message that federal whistleblowers […]

Marian University recently re-appointed existing members and appointed a new member to its Board of Trustees, as well as appointed a slate of officers for the 2017-19 term.  Current Board of Trustee members Todd Butz, Chief Financial Officer, MEC Inc.; Troy Schill, Director of Marketing & Sales Analytics & Operations, Grande Cheese Company; and Justin Smith, President/CEO, C.D. Smith Construction, Inc. were all appointed to a second three-year term, and […]

Fond du Lac residents can walk their dogs in all city parks.  At their meeting Wednesday night the Fond du Lac city council  voted 4-3 in favor of an ordinance that allows dogs on leashes in all city parks including Lakeside and Buttermilk Creek Parks with some exceptions.   Councilmembers Lorrigan, Merkel and Terbeest voted against.  Fond du lac city council member Brian Kolstad says expanding the ordinance is the right […]

The Fond du Lac Fire chief says a pilot mobile services program designed to help ensure at-risk residents  don’t  fall through the cracks when it comes to their overall health and well being has been successful.  Fond du Lac Fire chief Pete O’Leary updated the city council on the program at their meeting Wednesday night.  O’Leary says off-duty paramedics  visit residents who have requested or been referred for service but […]

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is scheduled to make a stop in Fond du Lac next month as part of  a statewide tour  to formally announce his re-election campaign.  The governor and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch are scheduled to make a stop at Brenner Tank on Tuesday November 7.   Chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County, Rohn Bishop, says his biggest concern about the 2018 election is that […]

The area unemployment rate is down in the latest reporting period.  The September unemployment rate in Fond du Lac stands at 2.8 percent.  That’s down from 3.4 percent in August. In Fond du Lac County the jobless rate fell from three percent in August to 2.5 percent in September.  In Dodge County the unemployment rate dropped three tenths of a  percent to 2.6 percent.

The executive director of the Wisconsin Transportation Development Association says he’s disappointed the legislature failed to address the state’s transportation funding problem long term.   Craig Thompson says a letter from DOT secretary David Ross asking the federal government to rescind their authorization to rebuld the I-94 corridor near Miller Park, “boggles the mind.”    Thompson says the State budget failed to address highway maintenance in the state by cutting the state […]