Dodge County has a new traffic safety coordinator. The Dodge County Board has approved the appointment of Scott Smith to the post. The former Dodge County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy replaces Joel Kiesow, who retired after serving in the position since February of 2015.
Fond du Lac residents can get tax assistance at the Salvation Army. Tax- Aide is a program sponsored by AARP & IRS that provides FREE personal income tax assistance and FREE e-filing to low to moderate income taxpayers with emphasis on people over age 50. Last year, the program filed 850 returns. The first opportunities to schedule appointments for Tax-Aide services are Jan. 30 and 31 from 1:30 - 4 pm. Appointments are […]
The Fond du Lac School superintendent is starting a monthly conversation with district residents. Starting Friday January 31, Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert will be hosting “Coffee with the Superintendent.” The goal is to invite residents to a casual monthly gathering to discuss school District issues. The first event is scheduled for 9am next Friday - January 31 at the Aquatics Center building.
A jury trial for a Beaver Dam man accused of murdering his ex-wife has been pushed back until June after the defendant changed his plea. Ulisses Medina Espinosa changed his plea from not guilty, to not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to first degree intentional homicide in the shooting death of Stacia Hollinshead. According to a criminal complaint Espinosa shot the victim 15 times at a Beaver Dam […]
A Missouri man was flown by helicopter to a hospital after jumping from the third story window of a Fond du Lac motel. Fond du Lac police say a 41-year-old Missouri man was hallucinating, and believed he was being attacked by dogs while he was in his hotel room and jumped to avoid the attack. There were no animals present. The patient was transported to St. Agnes Hospital with a leg injury and then […]
A North Fond du Lac man convicted of strangulation in a domestic incident a couple of years ago faces the same charge again with another woman. Hayden Gieschen is charged with strangulation and suffocation and false imprisonment. According to a criminal complaint in December Gieschen grabbed the mother of his child around the neck and picked her up and threw her. Later, he “placed his arms around her neck in a chokehold.” In 2017 […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a community notification for the relocation of a convicted child sex offender. The Sheriff’s Office says 35 year old Jonathan Miller has moved to a residence at N 4141 County Highway E between Fairwater and Waupun. Miller has previous juvenile adjudications for first degree sexual assault of a child when he was 14 and 16 years old.
Gov. Tony Evers has called the Republican-controlled Legislature into a special session next week to take up an $8.5 million package of bills designed to help rural Wisconsin. The state is in the middle of a crisis that's caused the loss of one-third of the state's dairy farms since 2011. Republican state representative Mark Born of Beaver Dam says he wants to hear details of the plan. "I'm hopeful this is something he's […]
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' plan to create a nonpartisan redistricting commission to draw the state's electoral maps next year may put pressure on the Republicans who control the Legislature, but it won't force them to change their plans for next year. Republican leaders showed no signs of taking a different approach to redistricting following Evers' announcement of the plan during his State of the State speech Wednesday. Republican State representative Mark Born of Beaver […]