Month: January 2020

Waupun city officials say new phosphorous limits are resulting in significant increases in sewer bills for residents.  The Waupun Common Council has approved a 7.2-percent annual increase over a four-year period, starting in April.   Waupun city officials say for the average residential customer the estimated yearly increase will be  around $19.  By the fourth year,  residents will be paying nearly $80 more than they pay now.  City officials say the increase is due to […]

A former inmate at the John Burke Correctional Center in Waupun has been charged with escape.  Thirty eight year old James Pederson made his initial Dodge County court appearance  this week on multiple charges.  According to a criminal complaint in December of 2018 while on work release, Pederson stole a co-worker’s vehicle at Northwoods Paper Converting in Beaver Dam , stole two other vehicles and items from the vehicles before later returning to the worksite.   The […]

The Dodge County Parks Department says  the Wild Goose State Trail is open to ATVs and UTVs.  Operators are required to slow down to 10 miles an hour or less when within 100 feet of pedestrians or bicyclists,  and must have a license plate and registration display on the rear of the ATV.

The recent 2019 Agnesian HealthCare Foundation Love Light campaign helped to raise more than $14,000 to support the Treffert Center.  The Treffert Center is working to share knowledge on neuro-diversity and what it means for the Fond du Lac community.  The Treffert Center was founded in 2016 and is the only savant institute in the world.  They have served more than 1,000 people and their families and their services currently span 20 counties in […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says a vehicle involved in a high speed chase this week in Fond du Lac has been recovered, but the suspect is still not in custody.   The vehicle was located in Chicago.  The chase Tuesday night  started on Interstate 41 with speeds close to 100 miles an hour.   The Sheriff’s Office terminated the chase in the city of Fond du Lac near Hickory Street and Western Avenue.

For the second weekend in a row a winter storm is expected to give Wisconsin motorists headaches.   National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Collar says a wintry mix of snow, strong winds and even the possibility of  freezing rain are in the forecast for our listening area, including Fond du Lac and Dodge counties Friday night and Saturday.  Collar says after unseasonably mild temperatures to start the new year,  Wisconsin is […]

The chair of the Assembly Education committee says an audit of the Department of Public Instruction focusing on declining reading test scores is long overdue.  State representatives Jeremy Thiesfeldt and John Nygren are calling for the audit.  Thiesfeldt says specifically the Legislative Audit Bureau would examine the methods Wisconsin schools use to teach reading.  "This is not across the board in every school because individual districts sometimes have fairly strong control over […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she supports a package of  bills to combat Lyme disease.  The state assembly has approved the bills that require the DNR to post Lyme disease warnings on state land and sell insect repellent at state parks and forests.  The senate passed the bills in October and they next go to governor Tony Evers.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says Lyme […]

A Watertown man is going to prison for selling heroin.  Dodge County Circuit judge Steven Bauer sentenced 34 year old Joseph Lehman to four years in prison and five years extended supervision for manufacture/delivery of heroin.  According to a criminal complaint Lehman sold crack cocaine containing  Fentynal to an undercover informant  in October 2018.