Month: February 2020

A legislative committee has rejected a plan to build new institutions to replace Wisconsin's troubled youth prison. Lawmakers have voted to close the institution outside Irma by July 1, 2021, and replace it with new state prisons and smaller county-run facilities. The Department of Corrections submitted a $73.2 million plan to the Joint Finance Committee to build two new youth prisons in Milwaukee and Hortonia. No money has been allocated […]

A Fond du Lac man faces multiple charges following a violent domestic incident.    Shortly after 9pm Monday police were called to a residence in the 100 block of Marys Avenue for a report of a physical altercation involving a knife.   The incident happened following an argument between a woman and her ex-husband.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says a male acquaintance of the female arrived at the scene and attempted […]

Assembly Republicans have approved a bill that would create protocols for submitting and tracking untested sexual assault evidence kits as well as require police to notify immigration officials of sexual assaults and allow student victims to enter school choice programs. Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul has been pushing legislation laying out kit protocols for a year. He alleges Republicans know the immigration and choice provisions are non-starters with Democratic Gov. […]

The state Assembly has passed a bill that would make having sex with an animal a felony. Right now bestiality is a misdemeanor. The bill would create a new crime punishable by up to 12½ years in prison. Sentences would vary depending on the circumstances, such as whether the animal dies and whether a child is present or coerced into sex with an animal. Convicts would have to register as sex […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that significantly damaged a North Fond du Lac.residence.  Firefighters were called to the scene yesterday on Maine Avenue.  A man who was home at the time was able to get out of the residence safely.  The fire apparently started on the kitchen stove.

The Fond du Lac city council will consider a business leader group’s plan to  develop a portion of Lakeside Park at their meeting Wednesday night.   Under the plan Oven Island would be converted into an amphitheater, ice rink and parking lot, and a restaurant and history museum building would be built on the lighthouse peninsula.  The council will potentially consider five resolutions at their meeting.   The first resolution would postpone the current plant to […]

Election officials in Wisconsin plan to send absentee voters two ballots for the spring election. And that's creating the potential for voter confusion. State law requires ballots for federal races to be mailed 47 days before the election. So absentee ballots for the April 7 presidential primary must go out on Feb. 20. That's two days after the Feb. 18 primary for state and local races, meaning there's no way […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she anticipates there will be more confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Wisconsin.   Health officials announced last week the first confirmed case in Wisconsin and only the 12th case in the U.S.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says seven Wisconsin residents have tested negative for the virus and there are still two pending cases so she wouldn’t be surprised to […]

Enjoy Coffee and Conversation with Dr. James Sebert,  Superintendent of the Fond du Lac School District.   Hear about progress on the referendum.   Ask any questions you have about  the District. Friday, February 21 at 7:30 a.m. Pier Elementary School - Media Center 259 Old Pioneer Road Fond du Lac Thursday March 26 at 7:15am Theisen Middle School - Auditorium Monday April 20 at 7:30am Chegwin Elementary School - Room 102 […]