Month: September 2020

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The list of candidates who want to be Wisconsin’s next state superintendent is getting longer. The former superintendent in the Milwaukee suburb of Brown Deer, Deborah Kerr, joins three other candidates seeking to replace Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor. The other candidates who have filed for the post include Sheila Briggs, an assistant state superintendent for the Department of Public Instruction; Troy Gunderson, who recently retired as […]

Former state representative and Fond du Lac city council president John Dobyns has died.   Dobyns died August 28 after a long battle with liver disease.  He was 76.  Dobyns  was a retired Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s detective when he was first elected to the Fond du Lac city council in 1990.  He resigned his seat on council in 1993 to run for the state Assembly.   He was a graduate of St. Mary’s Springs Academy […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The chief elections official in the presidential battleground of Wisconsin says that the state is prepared for the November election, despite fears over security, the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. Postal Service’s ability to process an expected record-high number of mailed-in absentee ballots. Wisconsin's top elections official Meagan Wolfe said Tuesday that elections officials have been meeting weekly with Postal Service representatives to prepare and troubleshoot […]

The chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County says he is opposed to a recall effort that has been launched against Democratic governor Tony Evers.   A Burlington woman started a petition drive over the weekend, setting off a 60 day countdown to gather nearly 670,000 signatures.  Chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County Rohn Bishop told WFDL news his first concern is the woman who filed the […]

The Fond du Lac city manager says new equalized values released by the state Department of Revenue show good news for Fond du Lac taxpayers.   The figures show that for the first time in it’s history, the value of all real  estate in the city of Fond du Lac is in excess of $3 billion.  City manager Joe Moore says that’s an increase of five percent over the previous year and nearly 21 […]

UW Health and the University of Wisconsin will become one of the first sites in the country to study whether a new vaccine can prevent COVID-19.    UW Health announced the upcoming study of an investigational vaccine developed by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.   Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says it’s exciting news.   "I think it will be interesting to see what those results are.   I think we're […]

A  Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain says it’s fortunate that nobody was hurt when a boat began taking on water on Lake Winnebago last weekend.  Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych says the 18 foot Seadoo Challenger speedboat encountered strong winds and high waves Saturday afternoon about a mile north of the lighthouse.  Tadych says four people on the boat made the mistake of jumping in the water thinking it would prevent the […]