Month: July 2020

The local unemployment rate saw a significant decline in June.   The Dodge County jobless rate plummeted from 9.7 to 7.3 percent last month.   In Fond du lac County the unemployment rate fell three percent to 8.3 percent.  The city of Fond du Lac’s  unemployment rate dropped from 13 percent in May to 9.7 percent in June.

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an armed robbery at an adult toy store.   Sheriff’s lieutenant of detectives Chris Randall says the Xcite Adult store on Highway N, just off Interstate 41 was robbed shortly before 6:30pm Sunday.  Randall says the store clerk says a white male entered the store, displayed a knife and demanded money.  The clerk was not injured in the incident.  The suspect is described as a […]

The president of Envision Greater Fond du Lac says the organization was asked by a group of business leaders to conduct an internal survey to guage community support for the Lakeside Park alternate master plan.   Sadie  Parafiniuk says at the request of the business group Envision engaged with a professional nationwide polling company to conduct the phone survey last week.   "What we wanted to better understand is what the entire […]

A Fond du Lac resident who is opposed to an alternate Lakeside Park plan is promising an effort to put a citizen’s referendum on the November ballot.  Darlene Hogan says Lakeside Park does not need more commercial development.  "It's a sanctuary.  It's a quiet greennspace where families can go, where individuals can go and have peace and quiet without anything commercial around them,"  Hogan told WFDL news.  Hogan says she […]

The Fond du Lac city councilmember who has led the effort to develop a portion of Lakeside Park acknowledges public opposition to the project is growing.   On AM 1170s Between the Lines program Ben Giles responded to a recent backlash on social media to an alternate plan proposed by a business group.   The plan includes a restaurant on the lighthouse peninsula and amphitheater and parking lot on Oven Island.  Giles […]

Joe Biden’s presidential campaign is ramping up its advertising and deploying some of its high-profile surrogates as it tries to solidify a broad battleground map that his advisers see as giving the former vice president multiple paths to an Electoral College majority. Biden’s campaign announced Tuesday a $15 million weeklong advertising campaign including television, digital, radio and print in six states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. President […]

After very little movement for over a year, work has restarted at the Fond du Lac Forest Mall.   Fond du Lac Community Development director Dyann Benson says demolition of the former JCPenney and Sears Department store buildings started last Friday.  Benson says in the end the mall will be replaced with a Meijer SuperCenter and gas station convenience store.   The says the estimated construction timeline is 18 months to two years.  Kohls […]