East Cotton Street from North Park Avenue to McKinley Street Schedule: May 2019 through September 2019 Description: The project includes reconstruction of the sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, street, and lighting. July 1 st to July 3 rd : The utility contractor will be installing storm sewer and storm sewer laterals. Traffic Impacts: East Cotton Street is closed to through traffic. Residents, business owners, and customers may access properties […]
Fond du Lac police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an inmate at the Taycheedah Women’s prison. The state Department of Corrections says Fond du Lac police are looking into the level of health care provided to Barbara Jean Krause before she died. The 63 year old Krause died of sepsis April 8, the day after she was taken to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac and about a week […]
Severe weather rolled through Wisconsin Thursday afternoon packing strong winds and dumping heavy rain. Fond du Lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says first responders and Alliant Energy crews were busy responding to several reports of downed trees and power lines. National Weather Service meteorologist, Denny Van Cleve, tells WFDL news a peak wind gust of 62 miles an hour was recorded in Fond du Lac. O’Leary says if you come across a downed […]
A new state of the art Fond du Lac police-fire training center is officially up and running. The $4.5 million facility is located on North Rolling Meadows Drive. Police chief Bill Lamb up until now officers received firearms training twice a year. He says the new facility enables officers to use the indoor shooting range on a regular basis. "Firearms training is a perishable skill. It's not something you can do […]
A meteorology professor at Ball State University has this message for Wisconsin residents…its going to be a long, wet summer. Doctor David Call says the long-range forecast calls for continuous rain throughout the summer for Wisconsin and the Midwest. Call says it’s a situation where the jet stream is kind of stuck in a rut. "This year we've seen the jet stream be in the same place a lot of […]
More Americans than ever recorded by AAA are making plans to honor the red, white and blue with an Independence Day getaway this year. State AAA spokesman Nick Jaramuscz says nearly 49 million people are expected to travel, an increase of more than four percent over last year. "The real story this year has been the continued strength of the economy and the fact that would be vacationers feel confident […]
Thousands of people are expected to converge on Waupun this weekend for that community’s biggest summer tourism festival. Celebrate Waupun is being held Friday through Sunday at Tanner Park. Waupun Festivals director Nick Rusch says the highlight of this year’s event is the 9/11 Never Forget Mobile exhibit. The mobile exhibit is a high-tech, 53 foot tractor trailer that transforms into a 1,000 square foot exhibit, manned by New York City firefighters. […]
The Fond du Lac city council is on board with a concept plan for a new Lakeside Park pavilion. The council got an update on the plan at their meeting Wednesday night. Council president Brian Kolstad says he thinks the building, featuring a stone exterior, and more windows, blends in well with the natural features of the park. "Its what we (council) want. We made some changes to the layout, we got […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans are pressing Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to approve the state budget. The GOP spent the spring stripping Evers' policy proposals out of the budget and reducing spending. Republican legislators passed the budget this week and plan to send it to Evers on Friday. Evers can sign it, veto it or use his partial veto powers to revise it. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald urged Evers to sign […]