Month: April 2020

The Fond du Lac city council has approved an ordinance setting fines for children as young as 12 years old for violating the governor's safer at home order.   Fond du Lac police chief  Bill Lamb says while most people are following the governor’s safer at home order the department is still receiving reports of violations,  primarily by high school age and younger adults. Lamb says common violations include use of playgrounds, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials are telling local clerks to stick by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that absentee ballots must be postmarked no later than election day as they prepare to tally results from the state's spring election. The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that absentee ballots must be hand-delivered to clerks on election day or postmarked by election day to count, but confusion has been mounting […]

The City of Fond du Lac’s bi-annual citywide water main flushing scheduled to begin on Monday has been pushed back a week.    Due to snow in the forecast the flushing will begin Monday  April 20  in the  northortheast section and proceed in a clockwise direction around the city.   The objective  to improve overall water quality by ridding  the water of mineral sediment by scouring and cleaning the interior walls of pipes.    During […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says a man found unresponsive in a field in the town of Eldorado has been identified as a 35 year old man from Oshkosh.   Rescue personnel  were called Thursday evening  to  an area on Nitschke Road after a person reported what he thought was a body in a field behind a residence.  Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych says the man was found with a pulse, […]

Two people were killed and one person was seriously injured in a two vehicle, head-on collision, in Dodge County.   The Sheriff’s Office says it happened about 9pm Thursday when a pick-up collided with a car on County Highway W near Hillcrest Road in the Town of Oak Grove.   The driver and passenger in the car, a 22 year old man, and 24 year old woman from Juneau were pronounced dead […]