A Fond du Lac music legend has died. Ray Wifler died Saturday he was 83. Wifler began teaching in 1958 at Lomira Public Schools followed by a position at UW-Fond du Lac. He was a professor music and Department chair at Marian University from 1984 to 2003. He was the founder and co-director of the Buttermilk Festival, Music Director of the Fond du Lac Symphonic Band for 42 years, Charter President […]
Students looking to enroll at most University of Wisconsin System schools won’t have to submit ACT or SAT scores as part of their admission applications this year or next. The system’s Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday to scrap requirements for the test scores in applications to all system schools except UW-Madison for the 2020-2021 and 2021-2022 academic years. System officials say dropping the requirement will allow applicants to move […]
Holy Family College and Fond du Lac’s Marian University have entered into an articulation agreement that will allow students of the Manitowoc-based college to complete their education through Marian at a cost potentially less than their original price of attendance at Holy Family College. Holy Family College, formerly Silver Lake College, announced on Monday it will cease operations at the end of the summer term and discontinue all operations by Aug. 29. For the 2020-21 academic […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross is ordering campuses to prepare to cut academic programs and brace for layoffs as the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic deepens. Cross says he wants campuses to complete evaluations of their programs by January with an eye toward cost, whether they’re duplicated at another campus and student demand. System officials will decide which courses stay. Cross says campuses […]
Republican congressman Glenn Grothman is encouraging the safe reopening of Wisconsin hospitals and medical facilities to elective surgeries and other elective procedures. Grothman says Wisconsinites have done an outstanding job slowing the spread of the virus and many hospitals have enough room to treat additional non COVID-19 patients. "I keep getting complaints from people who work in the hospitals wondering about the patients, why they can't get these procedures done when it has […]
A retired Ripon College economist says depressing new death toll projections and infection data released this week raise questions about state’s that are moving ahead now to reopen the economy. Economist Paul Schoofs says the question is whether shoppers fearful of being in public places bother to show up? "It looks like for one thing it's going to mean the increase in the rate of infections and deaths from the virus," […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System regents are set to vote this week on whether to scrap requirements that students submit ACT or SAT scores as part of their admission applications. The regents are set to meet Thursday to consider lifting the requirement at all institutions except UW-Madison for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years. System officials wrote in a memo to regents that dropping the requirement […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Outdoor enthusiasts have overwhelmingly rejected Wisconsin wildlife officials' proposals to dramatically change the state's gun deer hunting regulations. The Wisconsin Conservation Congress' spring survey asked if people would support extending the current nine-day gun season by 10 days or creating a 16-day gun season that would open in mid-November. Respondents rejected the 10-day extension by a nearly three-to-one margin and a 16-day season by more than […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Agriculture officials say chronic wasting disease didn't spread in a captive elk herd after one of its members tested positive last summer. Test results in August confirmed a 6-year-old male elk from the Smoking Gun Elk farm in Burnett County was infected with the disease. The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection placed the herd under quarantine. The agency said Wednesday that federal officials […]