Month: August 2020

release— Chancellor Andrew Leavitt today announced a name change for the theatre building on the Oshkosh campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh to better reflect UWO’s commitment to inclusion and equity.  The former Fredric March Theatre, located at 1010 Algoma Blvd., has been renamed the Theatre Arts Center.   UWO’s award-winning theatre department typically stages four main productions in the 500-seat proscenium  theatre each academic year.   In the early 1970s, […]

The Beaver Dam Meals on Wheels (MOW) program is seeking volunteers to help keep the important program thriving now and into the future.   Meals on Wheels is a community program that delivers within the city limits of Beaver Dam, and each year,  12,000 meals are served by 140 volunteers. All meals are prepared by the Marshfield Medical Center–Beaver Dam Café and are made for noon dinners, which volunteers pick up […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is poking fun at Democrats for canceling their in-person national convention in Milwaukee in favor of a virtual gathering due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pence campaigned Wednesday at metal fabricator Tankcraft Corporation in Darien. Pence says he heard the Democrats planned to have their convention in Wisconsin “but they couldn’t make it.” He noted that Biden hadn't campaigned in Wisconsin in nearly […]

The chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County says he fully expects to see both president Trump and vice president Pence return to Wisconsin before the election and wouldn’t be surprised to see one or both of them make a stop in Fond du Lac.   Rohn Bishop says , while he doesn’t have any inside information, he’s been telling people in Fond du Lac that we should be prepared […]

A retired Ripon College political scientist says it remains to be seen what type of a bounce in the polls Joe Biden gets from an all-virtual Democratic National Convention this week.  Marty Farrell says the bottom line is we don’t really know because this is unchartered territory.   And Farrell says often that convention bump has not lasted anyway.  "It's referred to by many analysts as kind of a sugar high."

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders and others from the liberal wing of the Democratic Party are calling on Democrats from key Midwestern states to work together to not only defeat President Donald Trump, but to forge ahead with a progressive agenda. They spoke Wednesday to activists from five Midwestern states during a virtual meeting coinciding with the third day of the Democratic National Convention. Trump narrowly won two […]

The Fond  du Lac County Sheriff’s Office will be getting some extra patrol officers.  The county board has given the okay for a COPS Hiring grant program to fund three patrol deputy positions.  Fond du Lac County executive Al Buechel says as the county population grows and the duties and technology changes its important to increase the capacity of the Sheriff’s Office.  Under the program in the first year the county […]