Month: October 2019

The Fond du Lac County Sherif’s Office would get a new tool to aid in the search for missing persons and various other capacities under a provision added to the the budget by the county finance committee.   The committee voted last week to earmark $10,000 from the county’s contingency fund to purchase a drone for the Sheriff’s Office.  Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych says the Sheriff’s Office has used other law  enforcement agency’s drones […]

Several awards were handed out for the 38th annual Business and Industry awards dinner at Marian University Wednesday evening.  Holiday Automotive is this year’s Business of the Year, Louis Andrew Jr. receives The George Becker Business Spirit Award,  Fond du Lac city and county government are recipients of the Community Collaboration Award, the EAA gets the Economic Development Award,   The Entrepreneur of the Year is Eric Kurtev  with Ala Roma, Backyard Grill […]

The Fond du Lac Public Works director says unless the Fond du Lac city council says otherwise, funding will be included in the budget and construction will begin next summer on a new Lakeside Park pavilion on the site of the existing pavilion.  The issue was clouded last week when councilmember Ben Giles surprised other councilmembers and city staff by asking for a pause in the project.   Giles said unnamed […]

A Fond du Lac city councilmember is expressing concern about revisiting a Lakeside Park Pavilion plan that was rejected by the community several years ago.  At last week’s city council meeting, councilmember Ben Giles asked fellow councilmembers to take a  “pause”  in plans to construct a new pavilion in the location of the existing pavilion.  Giles said he had "new information"  that included unnamed investors who told him they wanted the city instead to build […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says despite his close involvement in Ukraine issues at the center of an investigation into President Donald Trump, he won't recuse himself if there is a Senate impeachment trial.  Johnson says that he would "never even consider" stepping aside. He says, "I represent the people that elected me. Those individuals deserve a voice and my vote in the process."   Johnson also says […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy is facing criticism after appearing to question the patriotism of an Army officer at the National Security Council who twice raised concerns over the Trump administration's push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats.  Duffy's comments Tuesday on CNN about the closed-door testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman led to the hashtag #FireSeanDuffy trending nationally on Twitter.  Vindman arrived in the United States as […]

The Fond du Lac School Board has approved a  2020 school district budget.  Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says the district is benefiting from the state budget with low revenue relief and  additional state aid.   Sebert says the budget includes borrowing for the school building referendum debt and a 2.44 percent salary increase for staff.   He says the  budget does not include a significant increase in the mill rate.  "The referendum questions […]

Fond du Lac police are investigating a bomb threat hoax phoned in to the Fond du Lac Walmart store.   According to the police log about 10pm Monday  person called the store Deli department and said there was a “code blue” in aisle A25.  Code Blue is Walmart’s code for a bomb.    The store was evacuated.  The store was searched and found nothing suspicious.

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — A county health department in Illinois says a Michigan company voluntarily is recalling nearly 2,300 cases of apples due to potential listeria contamination.  Kane County health officials say Tuesday that North Bay Produce of Traverse City also is recalling two bulk bins of apples.  Recalled varieties include McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Jonathan, Fuji, Jonamac and Red Delicious. The recalled apples were shipped Oct. 16-21 to wholesalers, retailers and brokers […]