The St. Peter Lions Club "Super Sub Sell Down," held on Super Bowl Saturday (Feb. 3), teamed community grocers with Radio Plus talent and challenged each team to sell a sub sandwich the length of a football field first. The event was created over two decades ago as a novel way to raise funds and has since raised more than $92,000 for charitable causes. Representatives of this year's event presenting,accepting […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new king cheese has been crowned in Wisconsin. The winner of the 2018 World Championship Cheese Contest is a hard sheep's milk cheese called Esquirrou. The announcement was made Thursday night in Madison. Esquirrou is made in France at Mauleon Fromagerie by Michel Touyarou and imported by Savencia Cheese USA of New Holland, Pennsylvania. Twenty cheeses out of a record 3,402 entries were finalists for […]
A one vehicle crash in Fond du lac County has claimed the life of a Madison man. The crash happened Thursday afternoon on Highway V near Tracks Lane in the town of Eden. A preliminary investigation indicates a car was southbound on CTH V when the driver failed to negotiate a curve and struck an embankment on the east side of V. The car became airborne and overturned numerous times. […]
A white-tailed deer from a breeding farm in Washington County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. Wisconsin State Veterinarian Dr. Paul McGraw says the National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the test results. The buck was born on the 15-acre farm in May 2015. It was part of a herd of 58 whitetails, along with 13 elk, according to the owner's most recent registration. The owner found […]
The head of Drug Free Communities of Fond du Lac County says a spike in Wisconsin emergency room visits for suspected opioid overdoses may be, at least in part, due to the way communities are approaching the epidemic. Federal health officials say ER visits increased 109 percent in Wisconsin from July 2016 to September of last year. Ellen Sorensen with Drug Free Communities says Fond du Lac County uses a […]
The Fond du Lac County executive says the biggest issue impacting county government continues to be the opioid epidemic. Al Buechel says the crisis has had a significant impact on services provided through the Department of Social Services. Buechel says caseloads have skyrocketed involving children whose parents are addicted to heroin and other opioids. "In one weekend in September there were 13 kids removed from homes, four of t hose […]
As the governor and state lawmakers work on school safety proposals, the North Fond du Lac School superintendent says any plan needs to be flexible. Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says he would be supportive of measures that would provide more money to schools or allow districts to exceed revenue limits for safety improvements. But Sadoff says there has to be more than just physical improvements to facilities or more police. "Schools […]
REEDSBURG, Wis. (AP) — Reedsburg police arrested two 13-year-old students after officials discovered a list of names titled "kill list." The students were removed from Webb Middle School Wednesday, interviewed by police, arrested and later released to their parents. Police say the list was sent as a Snapchat to another juvenile, who notified school officials. Police say the two students lacked the means to carry out any threat. Officials say […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Brad Schimel isn't mentioning he's a Republican in his re-election campaign announcements. Schimel announced Thursday he's officially running for a second term in a year where Democrats hope to channel voter anger toward Republican President Donald Trump into wins. He issued a news release announcing the run as well as an online ad touting his work to combat opioid abuse, human trafficking and elder […]