What should you buy this holiday season for someone who has everything and believes in paying it forward? Fund Fondy allows people to purchase a gift for a United Way member non-profit organization in their name. Sally Swick helped launch the program last year and says the public has an opportunity to purchase an alternative gift on Giving Tuesday, December 3, at the Alternative Giving Market. "That's what you get to do here. […]
A Fond du Lac city councilmember wants the city to consider using alternatives to Roundup in city parks. The issue was brought up for discussion at last week’s city council meeting by councilmember Donna Richards. Richards says more than a thousand residents have signed a petition asking the city to consider alternatives to the toxic weed killer. Richards says the city maintains that Roundup is used safely and on a limited […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin police chief says an officer shot an armed male student at a suburban Milwaukee high school after the suspect pointed his gun at officers. Waukesha Police Chief Russell Jack says a student first warned the resource officer that a classmate had a gun at around 10:17 a.m. Monday. Jack says the resource officer went to the classroom to confront the student and get students […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Elections Commission wants the state Legislature to get involved with a dispute that could result in 234,000 people being made unable to vote. The commission voted 5-1 Monday to ask that the Republican-controlled Legislature provide guidance for when voters who may have moved should be deactivated from voter rolls.
A Fond du Lac company has landed another subcontract with Foxconn Technology Group. J.F. Ahern Company of Fond du Lac has been awarded a contract for mechanical and plumbing work for office and assembly. The award is one of four additional subcontracts announced for construction work at the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in southeast Wisconsin. Foxconn says the awards carry a total contract value of more than $31 million, bringing the total construction […]
A new trial date has been set for a Fond du Lac man charged in a shooting incident earlier this year. The week long trial for 25 year old Mohamed Elmhdati is scheduled to begin January 27. A motions hearing is scheduled for Decemberr 30. Elmhdati faces multiple charges including attempted first degree intentional homicide. Earlier this summer Elmhdati rejected a plea agreement that would have dismissed the homicide charge and amended an armed […]
In a sharply divided country, here’s something many Americans agree on: It’s hard to know what’s a true and honest fact. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USA Facts finds that regardless of political belief, many Americans say they have a hard time figuring out if information is true. Nearly two-thirds of Americans say they often come across one-sided information and about six in 10 say they regularly […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats’ drive to impeach President Donald Trump has a parallel in Wisconsin, where angry liberals took aim at Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2012 after he eviscerated public employee unions. Their recall attempt energized partisans on both sides. But it ultimately backfired, failing to persuade moderates to oust Walker from office early, and Walker won reelection in 2014. Walker and others who were around during the recall are […]
HARTFORD, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman who began sending care packages to her two sons deployed in the Middle East is now doing the same for hundreds of troops overseas in time for Christmas. Hartford resident Leann Boudwine says the soldiers she sends packages to “are like my kids.” After first sending packages to her sons, she sent a few more for the soldiers with whom they served. Eventually that […]