Month: January 2020

A group of Fond du Lac business leaders  officially unveiled their vision for Lakeside Park.   It was a packed Lakeside Park Pavilion Monday night for the  public information meeting to explain the plan and answer questions.  The ambitious plan that would transform Lakeside Park includes an amphitheater, seasonal ice rink and expanded parking lot on Oven Island and a restaurant and history museum on the lighthouse peninsula.  Principal architect at […]

One of the nation’s largest dairy cooperatives is praising a new trade deal between the United States and China.    Wisconsin-based Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative spokesman, Aaron Stauffacher, tells WFDL news the deal is a positive step for Wisconsin dairy farmers.  Stauffacher says within the next few years China will surpass the United States to become the world’s largest dairy market.  Stauffacher says Edge Dairy hopes subsequent agreements address removing retaliatory tariffs […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Senate plans to pass one of eight bills designed to fight homelessness in Wisconsin, a bipartisan package that's run into trouble among some conservative senators concerned about the cost. The Assembly approved all eight bills, which spend $3.7 million a year, back in June. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and other advocates urged the Senate to give final approval before winter so services could be […]

Several Waupun police officers have been recognized at the Department’s recent annual awards luncheon.   Deputy police chief Jeremy Rasch says officers A.J. Halverson and Ali Tipton and lieutenant Joe Pflazgraf received Commendation awards for going above and beyond their normal duties.  Tipton, Halverson and officers Bobby Williams, Brad Rasmussen and Ryan Schneider received Life-Saving awards.  Officer Williams also received the department’s Investigation Pin.

OCONTO, Wis. (AP) — Authorities released the names of a woman and her three children who died in a house fire last week in northeastern Wisconsin. Firefighters responded to the house in Oconto just before 3 a.m. Friday but emergency crews arrived to find the house engulfed in flames.  The victims were identified as Katherine DeCoursin, 35, and her children, Jeri Schroeder, 15, Dalton Schroeder, 13, and Nicholas DeCoursin Jr., […]

An Oshkosh man was flown by helicopter to a Milwaukee hospital following a shooting incident in Fond du Lac.   Shortly after 6pm Sunday police and rescue personnel were called to a residence in the 500 block of  East Division Street for a report that a man had been shot.  A 49-year-old Oshkosh man was transported by ambulance to St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac with a gunshot wound to the […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that damaged a Fond du Lac apartment unit.  Shortly before 6pm Saturday Fond du Lac firefighters were called to the Portland Square Apartments at 55 N. Portland Street.  Fire caused significant damage to a third floor apartment unit and minor damage to adjoining apartments.  The apartment complex was evacuated while firefighters extinguished the fire.   The occupant of the unit where the fire started was not home when the fire alarm […]

The Fond  du Lac city council president says he appreciates the input on ways to improve Lakeside Park and has a lot of questions about a park development plan proposed by a group of Fond du lac business leaders.  The plan includes a wharf bistro restaurant and history museum on the lighthouse peninsula.  That building would also include a meeting room and public restrooms.  Paths and boardwalks would be located […]

The Fond du Lac National Exchange Bank Foundation is making a community pledge in an effort to help the Fond du lac Area United Way reach its fundraising goal.  United Way executive director Amber Kilawee says the Foundation is offering a $25,000 match for donations made through January 31.    "An incredibly generous pledge, asking the community to to stand behind them and help them match that for a total of […]