Nobody was injured following a natural gas leak in Waupun. Waupun Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa says crews were paged out shortly after 7am Thursday to 315 south Madison street near the Waupun prison after a construction crew struck a gas main. DeMaa says 15 homes in the immediate area were evacuated as a precaution. The leak was repaired a couple hours later.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for the state Republican Party and Republican legislators are trying to halt a federal lawsuit seeking to cancel in-person voting in Wisconsin's spring election. The city of Green Bay's lawsuit alleges poll workers are quitting out of fears of the coronavirus and asks a judge to order the election be conducted completely by mail. Eric McLeod, an attorney for the state GOP, told U.S. District […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The longest-serving legislator in the United States is finally going to call it quits. Wisconsin state Sen. Fred Risser announced Thursday that he won't seek re-election this fall. Risser represents the Madison area. He's 92 years old and in his 64th year as a Wisconsin legislator, making him the longest-serving legislator in state and national history. According to his office, he's also the last World War […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin National Guard's new commander has stripped a colonel of his duties. The Guard announced Thursday that Col. James V. Locke has been relieved of command of the 128th Air Refueling Wing in Milwaukee. The Guard said in a statement that Maj. General Paul Knapp lost confidence in Locke based on command climate, poor judgment and alleged misconduct. The Guard is still trying to recover […]
TOWN OF WEYAUWEGA, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff's officials say a man has died after he broke through the ice on a pond in Waupaca County while trying to rescue a dog. Dispatchers received a 911 call about a man in distress on a pond on private property in the Town of Weyauwega Wednesday afternoon. Sheriff's deputies and Weyauwega police and fire responded. Firefighters were able to locate the man, get […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health officials report another jump in the number of positive COVID-19 tests. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Thursday reported 707 positive cases of the coronavirus. That's more than 120 cases since Wednesday, when 585 positive tests were reported. The number of deaths in Wisconsin caused by COVID-19 stands at eight. Milwaukee County has the most cases, 347, followed by Dane County with 114. […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has decided to close the state Capitol building in Madison as the coronavirus crisis deepens in Wisconsin. The Department of Administration closed the building at 8 a.m. Thursday morning. The building will remain closed indefinitely, although DOA officials said they would reopen it if the state Legislature or the state Supreme Court decides to convene. Evers issued an executive order on Tuesday mandating Wisconsin […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfh8ynYS7X4 Multiple studies link music study to academic achievement. But what is it about serious music training that seems to correlate with outsize success in other fields? The connection isn’t a coincidence. I know because I asked. I put the question to top-flight professionals in industries from tech to finance to media, all of whom had serious (if often little-known) past lives as musicians. Almost all made a connection between […]
A month and a half after approving a business group’s plan to develop a portion of Fond du Lac’s Lakeside Park the Fond du Lac city council has given the okay to proceed with design work for a renovated pavilion. Meeting Wednesday night for the first time with the city under a state of emergency during the coronavirus pandemic the council voted six to one to allow Excel Engineering to design a renovated pavilion for […]
