Month: March 2019

...FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING...   The Flood Watch continues for: * Portions of east central Wisconsin, south central Wisconsin,  and southeast Wisconsin, including the following areas, in  east central Wisconsin, Fond Du Lac and Sheboygan. In south central Wisconsin, Columbia, Dane, Green, Green Lake, Iowa,   Lafayette, Marquette, Rock, and Sauk. In southeast Wisconsin,  Dodge, Jefferson, Kenosha, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine,  Walworth, Washington, and Waukesha. * Through Friday […]

When Fond du Lac voters go to the polls next month they will decide between six candidates running for three seats on city council.  Former councilmember Derek Terbeest and challenger Alicia Hans are two of the candidates.   Terbeest has lived in Fond du Lac for nine years and works as a car salesman in Ripon.  He previously served on the council for one term.  "My whole reason for being on […]

A retired Ripon College political science professor and Fond du lac County Board chairman says Fond du Lac County will benefit economically from the Democratic National Convention.  Marty Farrell says area hotels and restaurants should benefit, being less than an hour away on I-41.  "The city of Fond du Lac should fill up all off its hotel rooms,"  Farrell told WFDL news.  "This is coming a week before the EAA, […]

The executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Says a review of elections by the Wisconsin Elections Commission confirms that voter fraud is not a problem in Wisconsin.   The Commission says the review found two dozen cases of voting irregularities out of 2.7 million votes cast in the November midterm elections.  League director Erin Grunze says the incidents were discovered even with voter ID.   The year before, […]

The North Fond du lac police chief says its fortunate that nobody was hurt following an armed standoff this week.    Chief Darren Pautsch says police were called Wednesday morning to a residence on Wisconsin Avenue for a  report of an intoxicated man who had armed himself and made threats to harm himself.  The Sheriff’s SWAT team was also called.  Pautsch says after about four hours the man surrendered without incident.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Governors of five states oppose President Donald Trump's call for a 90 percent spending cut for a Great Lakes cleanup program.  The president's 2020 budget offers $30 million for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which gets $300 million most years. It removes toxic pollution, prevents algae blooms and species invasions, and restores wildlife habitat.  The governors said Wednesday the cut would cost jobs, hurt tourism and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers plan to intervene and hire their own attorneys at taxpayer expense to represent the Legislature in a lawsuit filed against the state by Planned Parenthood.  Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Wednesday it is necessary for them to intervene because of Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul's "lengthy history of forwarding Planned Parenthood's agenda."   Kaul is defending the state in the lawsuit, filed in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin rule aimed at slowing the spread of chronic wasting disease between captive and wild deer has expired before it even took effect. The Department of Natural Resources had written an emergency deer farm fencing rule. But Wisconsin Public Radio reports the citizen board that oversees the DNR amended the rule, giving deer farmers 365 days to comply.  Emergency rules expire within 150 days, so […]

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Small engine manufacturer Kohler Co. is eliminating 600 jobs in Wisconsin as it transfers some of its work to Mississippi but the affected workers are getting employment elsewhere in the company.   Kohler said in a statement it is offering "alternative jobs in Wisconsin" to impacted workers as the company closes its engine division in Sheboygan County.  Meanwhile, Kohler plans to hire 250 people over the next […]