The Fond du Lac Department of Public Works says a portion of Division Street will be closed this week. Division Street between Algoma Street and Park Avenue will be closed beginning Wednesday, September 18 th and remain closed through the end of the day Thursday, September 19. The closure is in place to allow city crews to make utility repairs and restoration.
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. September 13 th to September 20 th : The concrete contractor will be finishing up concrete work and the grading contractor will begin backfilling curb and preparing terrace areas for topsoil placement. Traffic Impacts: East Cotton Street is […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers' administration is taking the first steps toward creating restrictions on manure and fertilizer in areas prone to nitrate contamination. The Department of Natural Resources says the move could cost farmers as much as $5 million annually at a time when the industry is already struggling with low milk prices and President Donald Trump's trade wars. The DNR last year imposed manure restrictions in 15 northeastern […]
Fond du lac’s newest festival has a name. Spark: A Graphic and Interactive Arts Festival, was created by Fond du Lac resident Jen Klitzke and was selected from entries submitted online, by mail and at the Farmer’s Market. The festival will be held next August at several venues including downtown galleries and businesses, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac Public Library, and the Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac. Organizer […]
The Fond du Lac Salvation Army has announced it’s winter assistance and warming shelter schedule. Winter coat and Christmas assistance sign-ups will be held October 17 and 19 at the Salvation Army on North Macy Street. You may donate new and gently used winter coats for kids starting September 23 through October 18. Meal item collections for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners will be accepted starting September 23, and Toys for Tots gift drive will start […]
A Fond du Lac lawmaker is circulating a bill that would mandate public schools to include cursive writing into their curriculum. Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says the bill has received great bipartisan support. Thiesfeldt says cursive writing has several benefits, including the ability to retain and remember information better when it is written down compared to typing on a computer or writing in print. Thiesfeldt chairs the assembly education committee.
The Fond du Lac school board president says she wants to hear how the public feels about spending tax dollars to construct a new artificial turf football field and new indoor physical education building at Fond du Lac High School. The school board discussed the matter at a workshop session this week, after athletic director David Micalkiewicz raised the idea at the prior board meeting. Board president Linda Uselmann says installing artificial turf at Fruth […]
The Waupun deputy police chief says he expects a decision by next week on whether to forward additional charges against a Waupun man in the death of his grandmother. Seventy five year old Carol Foreman died August 28 at ThedaCare Medical Center in Neenah, four days after she was found in the basement of her grandson’s home in Waupun with severe head injuries. Deputy Police chief, Jeremy Rasch, says police are treating the […]
Two Waupun men have been indicted in federal court for their alleged role in three armed bank robberies in Wisconsin. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Milwaukee says 36 year old Justin S. Smith, and 35 year old William D. Balgie, are accused of robbing the National Exchange Bank and Trust in Allenton on April 8, Cornerstone Bank in Menomonee Falls on June 17 and National Exchange Bank and Trust in Glenbeulah on Aug. 9. If convicted, […]