North Fond du Lac School Board president Pete Chisholm, is being honored by the Wisconsin Music Educators Association. The Association has named Chisholm as the recipient of the 2020 Distinguished School Board Member Award. “As someone who has been involved in music since I was a child, I am very humbled to be recognized in this way,” Chisholm said. The award, according to WMEA, is designed “to recognize a school board member […]
A Campbellsport man convicted of trying to kill his fiancée with a pocket knife is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced James Allen to 22 years in prison followed by 20 years extended supervision. Allen was convicted in August of attempted first degree intentional homicide-domestic abuse. According to a criminal complaint Allen stabbed his fiancée, Michele Fleischman, in the neck with a pocket knife while she was driving at highway […]
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Sauk County’s sheriff says the man suspected in a homicide at Devil’s Lake State Park is still at large. Sheriff Chip Meister says emergency responders were called to the south side of the park Wednesday morning where a 24-year-old man was found dead on the Grottos Trail. Meister says it appears the man was stabbed to death. The sheriff says the suspect was last seen walking […]
St. Mary’s Springs Academy in Fond du Lac has broken ground on a new artificial turf football field. According to a Facebook post with the COVID-19 pandemic pushing fall sports to spring and as a result of losing some land to the Highway 23 reconstruction project the school was provided a unique opportunity to fast track the turf project to this fall. The school says the new field will allow […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has hit a new daily high for positive coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, a surge that the state’s chief health officer is calling a crisis. There were 3,747 new cases reported Thursday, breaking the record of 3,279 set on Tuesday. To date, the state has had more than 162,000 positive cases and 1,553 deaths since the pandemic started. Hospitalizations were at a daily high of 1,017 […]
The Fond du Lac County Health Department’s COVID-19 database won’t be updated this weekend as the computer system gets an upgrade. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says during the maintenance the health department will not be getting any positive or negative test results into the system. Mueller says health departments across the state use what’s called the Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System. The system will go down for maintenance Friday afternoon, […]
The Fond du Lac city manager says the city of Fond du Lac and Fond du Lac County are going in the wrong direction with rising COVID-19 cases. City manager Joe Moore says we need unity on this effort and right now we don’t have that. "It seems like every couple of weeks we're arguing about what we should or shouldn't be doing. We are yet seeing the positives of […]
The Fond du Lac County executive is reacting to a temporary restraining order halting the governor’s emergency order that limited public gatherings as the state deals with a COVID-19 outbreak. Al Buechel says his reaction is not one of surprise anymore. "The fact that there are people who have no alternative answers other than to do nothing," Buechel told WFDL news. "I understand the impact on business but I wish […]
A Fond du Lac church is asking the community to help stock the Fondy Food Pantry. Redeemer Lutheran Church pastor James Borgwardt says last weekend over 40 church volunteers distributed 1,100 grocery bags in Fond du Lac, asking residents to fill those bags with non-perishable food items. Volunteers will be collecting the filled bags Friday and Saturday. Pastor Borgwardt says during the pandemic it seems that people are in need […]