Month: March 2019

Students in Marian University’s Nursing and Community Health and Human Services programs have partnered with Anthem Blue Cross and Shield to deliver healthy resources to the community’s low income population served by The Salvation Army. Students from two courses titled “Understanding Poverty” and “Health Promotion, Wellness, and Safety Across the Lifespan” are working with the Salvation Army to promote healthy lifestyles.  The Health Hot Spot resource kiosk is the newest […]

Fond du Lac residents are being asked to help volunteer with flood clean-up efforts again this weekend.  United Way executive director Amber Kilawee says a volunteer reception center will be open Saturday from 8:30am to 3pm at Pilgrim Church on Stow Street.  Kilawee says if you are volunteering to help clean make sure to dress appropriately.  The March 14 flood displaced hundreds of Fond du Lac residents.

Forty-eight tried. One prevailed in the closest of margins. And in the process, champions were unseated.  The fierce competition at the 19th annual Team Trivia fundraiser for Fond du Lac Literacy Services, held March 12 and 14 at Whispering Springs Golf Club, drew 48 teams (including eight teams from uber-enthusiastic Michels Corp.).  Team Myriad Profiteroles – Cory Clark, Pedro Arellano, Sue Heitzman and Phil Shepherd – proved unbeatable with 102 […]

A Fond du Lac woman is competing this weekend  in  the  Mrs. Wisconsin pageant.    Kim Galske will be competing Saturday evening  at the Northwoods Center in Eagle River.  This is Galske’s second competition.  She finished second runner-up last year.  Her platform is Salute the Troops and veterans.  The winner will compete for the national title of Mrs. United States hosted in Las Vegas this summer.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans asked an appeals court Friday to immediately reinstate GOP-backed laws limiting the powers of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul.  Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess issued an injunction Thursday blocking the laws, which were quickly approved in December before Evers replaced Republican Gov. Scott Walker. On Friday, an attorney for the Republican lawmakers asked for an immediate stay to block […]

Team Rubicon disaster response volunteers are on the ground in Fond du Lac to help in the ongoing flood clean-up effort.    Fond du Lac native and Team Rubicon member Adam Lemons says the volunteers will be helping flood victims through early next week.  "Today we have about seven (volunteers) but we are ramping up to about 25 over the weekend,"  Lemons told WFDL news.  Lemons says Team Rubicon unites […]

Curbside collection of flood damaged items will continue in the hardest hit areas of Fond du Lac through March 29.   City engineer Paul DeVries says public works crews began curbside pick-up Tuesday.  A map boundary is available on the city’s website.  Meanwhile, DeVries says all Fond du Lac residents can drop off flood damaged items at the Bulky Waste Drop-off site on Doty Street until 7pm through Friday and Saturday […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Wisconsin Republicans' contentious lame-duck laws limiting the powers of new Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who immediately used his restored authority to pull the state out of a multistate challenge to the Affordable Care Act.  Dane County Circuit Judge Richard Niess brushed aside GOP concerns that striking down the lame-duck laws would leave thousands of other statutes passed in so-called extraordinary […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin will somehow beat Duke to win the NCAA men's basketball championship.  Evers, a Wisconsin alumnus, issued a news release Thursday predicting Wisconsin, Duke, Texas Tech and North Carolina will reach the Final Four. He predicts Badgers big man Ethan Happ will draw so much defensive attention that other Wisconsin shooters will get open shots.   Wisconsin is 23-10 and faces Oregon in […]