Month: March 2020

Nursing homes and other long term care facilities are taking steps to assess and improve their preparedness for responding to the coronavirus.  Cindy Kilgas at the Touchtone Living Center assisted living facility in North Fond du Lac staff has developed a checklist to keep residents and staff safe.  According to the CDC that checklist should include rapid identification and management of ill residents, supplies and resources,  education and training and sick leave policies and […]

Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt is critical of how the governor rolled out his expansive business closures across the state for a month.   A new order that went into effect Wednesday closes  businesses deemed nonessential, prohibits gatherings of any size and places new restrictions on travel across Wisconsin for a month in an attempt to slow spread of the coronavirus.  Thiesfeldt questions why?  "As of last Friday and even over the weekend the […]

Fond du Lac police are notifying the public that a convicted child sex offender is being released from prison and moving back into the community.   Assistant police chief Steve Klein says 48 year old Michael Ziegler will be living at 457 Thomas Street later this month after serving time in prison for possession of child pornography.  Klein says Ziegler served additional prison time for violating his supervised release. Klein says Ziegler must wear […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican legislative leaders say they want to understand what’s in the $2 trillion federal stimulus package before they take any action at the state level in reaction to the coronavirus. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos urged caution Wednesday because of the national economic downturn. He says he doesn’t know if Wisconsin's current budget will be able to balance next year and he assumes that the state’s […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Local officials' frustration with Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' refusal to order any changes to the upcoming presidential primary to protect people from the coronavirus is boiling over. The city of Green Bay filed a federal lawsuit seeking to cancel in-person voting. River Falls officials are questioning how they can run the election in the face of Evers' stay-at-home order. Republican leaders say they're backing Evers' decision […]

Commercial development at Fond du Lac’s Lakeside Park is on the agenda for tonight’s Fond du Lac city council meeting.   Councilmember Kay Miller is asking the council to consider a community survey to see how the public feels about a business group’s plan which includes building a restaurant on the lighthouse peninsula and an amphitheater, ice rink and parking lot on Oven Island.  City manager Joe Moore will also update the council on a proposed […]

Bobbi Hicken, Director of Communications and Emergency Management in Fond du Lac County, is asking residents and to stop calling the dispatch center for guidance and questions regarding the emergency orders issued by Governor Evers. Since Governor Evers announced his intentions to issue the “safer at home” order, our dispatch center has received a significant number of calls from people wanting information and getting frustrated at the dispatchers when they […]