The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is warning motorists to keep their eyes on the side of the road for deer. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt tells WFDL news this is the time of the year when the number of car-deer crashes tend to spike during the rut. Waldschmidt says while most car-deer collisions result in only property damage, they can also result in injury or even death. According to the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says it's "astonishing" that Republicans want to fire his agriculture secretary. Evers appointed Brad Pfaff to lead the agency in January, but the Senate has not voted to confirm him. Pfaff angered lawmakers when he criticized the Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee for not releasing $200,000 to help with farmer mental health programs. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald's spokesman Alec Zimmerman says there aren't […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Senate is poised to approve a constitutional amendment next week that would prohibit the governor from using his veto powers to increase spending. The Senate is set to take up the amendment Tuesday. Approval is almost certain but the amendment's still a long way from ratification. Constitutional amendments must pass both legislative houses in two consecutive sessions as well as a statewide referendum. Tuesday's […]
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin agriculture officials say new federal rules on industrial hemp production won't impact the 2020 growing season. The state's producers are wrapping up their second year of growing hemp under Wisconsin guidelines for a pilot program. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released an interim final rule to establish the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program this week. The 2018 U.S. Farm Bill directed the agency to create national regulations […]
The Fond du Lac Salvation Army Warming Shelter is officially open for the winter season. The shelter opened Friday evening for its first night of operation this season. Social Service Director Ron Jacobson says last year the shelter was open 151 nights serving 144 adults. Clients were fed over four thousand meals and more than a thousand loads of laundry were done for clients. The shelter will be open through April […]
A Beaver Dam woman is going to prison for the drug overdose death of a West Bend woman. Forty year old Jackie Meyer has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 10 years extended supervision, She pleaded guilty in August to first-degree reckless homicide. Authorities say she supplied the heroin and cocaine that led to the death of 40 year old Karen Sadowski in August of 2016.
This week’s snowstorms set records for the month of October. National Weather Service meteorologist, Denny Van Cleve, says the snowstorm Tuesday dumped anywhere from two inches in Fond du Lac to three or four inches in other locations and another four inches of snow Thursday…breaking records for the month of October. Van Cleve says there are chances for at least periods of snow through at least the middle part of this […]
Highway 26 in Fond du lac County was closed for several hours Thursday night after a semi jackknifed on black ice and ended up in the ditch. The crash happened shortly before 8pm Thursday on Highway 26 near Fremont Road blocking both lanes of traffic. There was black ice reported on the Highway at the time. Traffic was detoured and the highway was re-opened about six hours later.
A carhop at a Fond du Lac fast food restaurant is credited with helping to save the life of a customer. Gilles Frozen Custard on South Main Street posted on Facebook that Lily Casteneda-Bobadilla saved a man’s life while carhopping last Saturday. The post says an elderly gentleman was choking on his sandwich and Lily sprang into action, administered the Heimlich maneuver and saved his life. Fond du Lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says it’s […]