Month: February 2018

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Senate candidate Leah Vukmir is quizzing Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin about her vote against a Republican tax overhaul bill in Congress. Vukmir attended a Baldwin lunch Thursday hosted by Wispolitics.com. She asked Baldwin about the recently approved tax bill during a question and answer period after Baldwin spoke.  Baldwin says she opposes the tax bill because tax cuts for the middle class are temporary […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers moved closer Thursday to enacting Gov. Scott Walker's plan to give parents a tax credit and create a sales tax holiday, moving the package through the Assembly and on to the Senate. The legislation's fate in that house is uncertain.  Walker's plan calls for giving all parents a $100 per-child tax credit, funded through the state's budget surplus. It also would repeal sales taxes […]

This is OCD Week of Action with a goal of changing people’s perception about mental health and the stigma that surrounds it.   Fond du Lac County resident Christine Ewerdt’s teenage son has obsessive compulsive disorder.  Ewerdt says her experience has been that schools don’t have the resources they need to address students with OCD.  She says one idea may be to  have other students be peer mentors to a child […]

A Ripon man is accused of manufacturing meth at his grandmother's senior living apartment while she was living in Alabama for the winter.  Twenty three year old Kyle Erdmann is charged with manufacturing methamphetamine.  He is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $10,000 cash bond.  According to a criminal complaint  the grandmother told investigators that her grandson knew he was no longer welcome at her Kenwood Senior Living […]

A former Waupun resident has been charged tax fraud.   A federal grand jury in Milwaukee has indicted 47-year Kimberly Bagneski on 13 counts of tax fraud.  Bagneski is accused of filing at least 20 false tax returns with the IRS seeking more than $90,000 in tax refunds, according to the indictment.

A fund is being set up at the National Exchange Bank for a Fond du Lac boy who has been diagnosed with terminal  brain cancer.   Fourteen year old Fond du Lac High School freshman Gavin Bartels is scheduled to begin radiation treatment next week.   In an exclusive interview with WFDL news Gavin’s mother Sarah Bartels says when she took Gavin to the hospital emergency room January 29 because he wasn’t […]

The Winnebagoland Conservation Alliance plans to start work this year on repairing public access roads to Lake Winnebago. The town of Friendship Board recently approved an offer by the Alliance to fix the area where Kinker, Cemetery and Subway Roads meet the lake.  Mike Arrowwood with the Conservation Alliance says the improvements will make it easier for ice anglers to get their vehicles on and off the lake.  Arrowwood says […]

The North Fond du Lac School superintendent says a proposed grant program to pay for armed guards in schools may be a good idea.   Under the bill schools could receive state Justice Department grants to pay for armed security officers in schools with grades 5-12.  North Fond du Lac superintendent Aaron Sadoff says creating a grant program  would not take money away from education.  "We see some movement and we […]

The Wisconsin Historical Society placed the Northern Casket Company building in Fond du Lac on the State Register of Historic Places.  The Northern Casket Company occupied the North Brooke Street building between 1905 and 1962.   The state Historical Society says the building remains one of the best surviving examples of Fond du Lac’s industrial heritage, of which very few buildings remain.