Fond du Lac’s Saint Mary’s Springs Academy is looking for a new principal. Dr. Julie Shively is resigning as the grades six-12 principal to accept a principal position at a Catholic school on the east coast. The resignation is effective at the end of the school year. Interim System president Stacey Akey thanked principal Shively for her dedication and commitment and says a search for a replacement will begin immediately. […]
High winds caused scattered power outages in the Fond du Lac area early Wednesday morning. Fond du Lac Fire chief Pete O’Leary says crews responded to several weather related calls including power outages with down wires. "About 3am we started getting several calls of tree limbs down on wires and some power outages in some areas. We had a lot of debris flying around," O'Leary told WFDL news. "Police have […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is joining hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the state for the annual Click It or Ticket safety belt enforcement campaign. Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych says the mobilization starts this week and runs through June 2. Tadych says wearing a seatbelt is the single most effective way to protect yourself and prevent needless tragedies on the road. Last year in Wisconsin there were […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Advocates for K-12 schools and the University of Wisconsin System say they think Republicans will want to spend more money on education, but they don't anticipate it will be as much as Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed. Education advocates and the lobbyist for the state chamber of commerce spoke Tuesday at an event organized by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum. It comes two days before the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan is calling for impeachment proceedings to move forward against President Donald Trump. Pocan on Tuesday tweeted that "Stonewalling Congress on witnesses and the unredacted Mueller report" enhances the appearance of guilt and "has pushed Congress to a point where we must start an impeachment inquiry." Pocan in 2017 was one of the first members of Congress to discuss possible impeachment. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined a lawsuit seeking to block a new federal rule allowing health care clinicians to object to providing abortions and other services that conflict with their beliefs. Nearly two dozen states and municipalities filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. The lawsuit asks a judge to block a Department of Health and Human Services rule set to take […]
The state Supreme Court has agreed to hear the drug conviction case of an over the road trucker from Kenosha convicted in the cold case murder of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County. Brantner was convicted of trying to smuggle prescription medication when he was being booked into the Fond du lac County Jail and was sentenced to six and a half years in prison. Issues before the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A key Republican leader on the Legislature's finance committee says Gov. Tony Evers' plan to add new barracks at two Wisconsin prisons isn't dead. Evers' state budget calls for borrowing $15 million to build three new 144-bed barracks at Jackson Correctional Institution in Black River Falls and one at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac to help alleviate overcrowding. The finance committee is revising the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says he'll veto four Republican-authored anti-abortion bills if they reach his desk. The bills would force doctors to care for babies that survive abortions; end Planned Parenthood's Medicaid funding; prohibit abortions based on fetuses' race, sex or defects; and require providers to tell women seeking abortions using the drug mifepristone that the process may be reversed. The Senate expects to take up […]