Month: March 2020

A Fond du Lac city councilmember says the council is making a mistake when it comes to altering plans for Lakeside Park that she fears will end up costing taxpayers a lot of money down the road.   Kay Miller supported the council’s original plan to replace the existing park pavilion and says a business group has mischaracterized how that  new pavilion would have been different from the existing facility.   Unlike […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The largest technical cheese, butter and yogurt competition in the world is taking place in Wisconsin, with a record 3,667 entries from 26 nations. The 55 judges will taste, sniff and inspect the 132 classes of dairy products during the biennial World Championship Cheese Contest that started Tuesday. The judges include cheese graders, cheese buyers, dairy science professors, and researchers from 19 nations and 14 states. […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s office says a  body matching the description of a missing elderly Mayville man has been found in a farm field.  The body was located shortly before 7pm Monday  in a field near Highway 67 in the village of Kekoskee.    The  Dodge County Medical Examiner  will conduct an autopsy  and to ensure positive identification.  Last month a Silver Alert was issued for 77 year old John Bachhuber.   He was last seen  walking […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law a bill supported by disability rights advocates and parents that would establish more procedures for when schools restrain a student or place them in seclusion. Evers also signed bills Monday designed to address student mental health concerns. One would create a new school-based mental health consultation pilot program in Outagamie County. Another would require public schools, any University of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State health officials say testing for the coronavirus will be done at two locations in Wisconsin rather than be sent out of state to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. The testing will be done at the Wisconsin state lab of hygiene on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and at the Milwaukee Health Department. State health officer Jeanne Ayers said Monday that one […]

Republican state senator Luther Olsen of Ripon is endorsing Republican state representative Joan Ballweg for his senate seat.  A day after announcing he would not be seeking re-election this fall, Olsen told AM 1170’s Between the Lines program he would endorse Ballweg for the seat.  "She is a very hard working woman,"  Olsen told WFDL news.  "She has been respectedin her caucus.  She is co-chair of the children's caucus, which I was an […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Chancellor Bernie Patterson says he'll retire at the end of the year. Patterson announced Monday that he'll step down in December . Patterson has served as chancellor at the school since July 2010. He drew intense criticism from faculty and students in 2018 after administrators proposed eliminating 13 programs to help cope with a $4.5 million deficit. Opponents complained Patterson's staff expanded […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin legislators are pressing President Donald Trump to push a U.S. Navy frigate construction deal to Fincantieri Marinette Marine. Rep. John Nygren, who represents Marinette, sent the letter to the president on Monday. Fincantieri Marinette Marine is competing with Bath Iron Works in Maine; Austal USA of Alabama; Huntington Ingalls of Mississippi. The Wisconsin legislators' letter to the president says the contract could generate 1,000 additional […]