Month: December 2017

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he would be "completely shocked" if House Speaker Paul Ryan did not run for re-election next year.  Ryan on Thursday denied reports that he plans to leave Congress after the Republican tax bill is approved.  Walker said Friday he spoke with Ryan and "he's not going anywhere." When asked if he were going to continue with his re-election campaign, Walker says he […]

A longtime UW-Fond du lac extension agent is stepping down.  Denise Retzleff has announced her retirement as of January after 29  years of service, the past 20 years  as the 4-H Youth Development Educator.  Retzleff also has served as co-department Head for the past seven years.  

ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials say the flu is spreading across the nation, with a dozen states now reporting widespread flu cases just ahead of the holiday season. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta says the following 12 states are reporting widespread cases of the flu: Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Wisconsin

Tis the season to spend with family and friends and this year Americans are traveling in record numbers.    State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says a new AAA survey shows this will be the highest year end travel volume on record and a 3.1 percent Increase compared with last year.  Jarmuscz says more than 107 million Americans are expected to celebrate the holidays away from home.  Two-point-two million Wisconsinites will travel […]

Fond du lac County law enforcement will be out in force during the holidays looking for drunken drivers.  The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign starts Friday and runs through January  1.  Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says officers will patrol in greater numbers and for longer hours to discourage people from getting behind the wheel impaired.  "Its just a focus on drunk driving.  We continue to do our grant-funded […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Leaders of a new bipartisan task force tackling ways to improve Wisconsin's much-maligned school funding formula are realistic about chances any changes will be made.  The panel that met for the first time Thursday is the latest in a long line of groups that have studied ways to improve the formula. Sen. Luther Olsen is co-chair of the panel and says he doesn't want this latest […]

The chairman of the Assembly Education committee says he’s pleased a bipartisan task force is being formed to study school funding in the state.  Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac says he would like to the see the formula include some sort of baseline funding that all school districts will receive.  "If you go through all the processes the formula creates and your amount comes below that, […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a tractor at a Fond du lac County farm.   Firefighters were called to the Dennis Binning residence on Highway T  in the town of Lamartine Thursday afternoon for a report of a tractor on fire inside of a shed.   The tractor is a total loss.  The shed received some damage as a result of the fire. The fire is not of a […]