The Fond du Lac Parks director says an alternate Lakeside Park master plan put forth by a group of business leaders is an interesting concept with some nice additions, but says there are still concerns. A group of Fond du Lac business leaders wants the city to scrap its plan to build a new, expanded pavilion and go with their plan instead. Seven companies have made verbal commitments of $4.6 […]
In conjunction with the annual sturgeon spearing season, the fifth annual Sturgeon Spectacular is being held this weekend in Fond du Lac. The event runs through Sunday in downtown Fond du Lac and on the shores of Lake Winnebago at Lakeside Park. Fond du Lac Festivals director Pete Wilke says a number of activities are being held including a snow sculpting competition in front of the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts near […]
The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says he believes a sentence handed down last week in a fatal traffic crash that killed a father and son was appropriate. Travis Wollersheim was placed on probation with a year in jail and ordered to perform community service. District attorney Eric Toney says Wollersheim wasn’t paying attention when he rear-ended a vehicle that had slowed in a construction zone, killing the driver and his eight year old […]
Prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old man in the fatal stabbing of a retired Oshkosh police captain. Ian Suzuki of Oshkosh was charged Thursday with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of 67-year-old Jay Puestohl. Puestohl was stabbed with a knife Sunday afternoon and died later at a hospital. According to the complaint, a police officer arrived at the home and found Suzuki standing next to a couch where Puestohl was lying about a […]
A man accused of killing two brothers from Wisconsin made his first in-person court appearance in Missouri. Garland Joseph Nelson did not speak during Thursday's hearing. A preliminary hearing date was set for March 24. Nelson, of Braymer, is accused of killing 35-year-old Nick Diemel and 24-year-old Justin Diemel, 24, of Shawano County, Wisconsin. A probable cause statement says the brothers visited Nelson to collect a $250,000 debt. Their remains […]
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is calling for the Republican-controlled Legislature to spend $250 million of a state budget surplus on public schools, more than half of which would go toward lowering property taxes. The proposal unveiled Thursday met with immediate opposition from Republican leaders, who want to cut taxes, not spend more on schools. Evers surrounded himself with teachers, school board members, superintendents, Democratic lawmakers and others to call a […]
A University of Wisconsin System regent committee has signed off on a plan to raise tuition for nonresident undergraduates and graduate students across six schools. The plan calls for increases ranging between 1.5% and 25% at UW-Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Platteville, River Falls, Stevens Point and Whitewater starting this fall. The schools say they need more money to cover instruction, pay raises, recruiting faculty, technology and training clinical professionals. The regent's business […]
The Wisconsin Republican Party has opened its first-ever office in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. The move is one of the highest-profile signs yet of the GOP's push to shave away Democrats' advantage among minority voters and the latest indication of how hard-fought every vote will be in battleground Wisconsin. Republican Party leaders told The Associated Press that the office will serve as the base for the party's minority outreach […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Police say the man found dead in a burned out storage unit in Oshkosh was the person renting the unit. The victim was identified Thursday as 49-year-old Frank Larsen of Oshkosh. His body was discovered after firefighters put out the fire in some storage units Tuesday night. Police say the cause of the fire is still under investigation.