Month: October 2020

The Fond du Lac School District is moving onto the second phase of it’s referendum remodeling projects.   Interim superintendent Sharon Simon says bids for the projects at Sabish Middle School and Parkside Elementary will go out by the end of the month.   Simon says the goal is to begin renovation work in December or January.   The Parkside project will include an addition, including a safe and secure entrance, a new library and […]

Fond du Lac County is eyeing property just northeast of the city for future a future park.  The county has made an offer to purchase the land for $360,000.  It’s located just north of Fond du Lac to the east of Highway 151.  County Land Information director Terry Dietzel tells WFDL news the 24 plus acre parcel includes 19 acres of cropland, a little over five acres of woods and a thousand linear  […]

The Fond du Lac County Clerk is urging residents to get their mail-in absentee ballots voted and sent in now.  Clerk Lisa Freiberg says a lot of absentee ballots were sent out, but there are still a lot that have not yet been returned.  Meanwhile, in-person absentee voting starts next Tuesday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has declined to block more than $6 million in election grant money to five Wisconsin cities that a conservative group argued amounted to bribery designed to increase voter turnout in Democratic strongholds. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach on Wednesday denied a request from the Wisconsin Voters Alliance and seven of its members, saying he found nothing in the law to prohibit the cities […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he thinks Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett will be confirmed and will make a good justice.  Grothman says he hopes she’s a judge who respects the constitution.   Responding to Democrats’ concerns that the selection should wait until after the election, just as Republicans complained when former president Obama nominated  Merrick Garland before the 2016 election.  "I think there's not a lot of precedent for that.  There's precedent […]

RE-OPENED – Military Road – Hickory Street to Seymour Street – Military Road has re-opened to traffic. The contractor is in the process of removing traffic control and should be completed shortly. CLOSURE – E. 11th Street – Park Avenue to Martin Avenue – E. 11th Street from Park Avenue to Martin Avenue, including the intersection of Martin Avenue will be closed this afternoon through the end of day Monday, October 19th for fine grading and placement […]

The Fond du Lac city attorney is recommending the city council deny petitions for a binding referendum on future development of the lighthouse peninsula and Oven Island at Lakeside Park.  The council will consider the petitions at their meeting tonight that ask for two questions, in the form of ordinances, be placed on the April election ballot.   The ordinances would require public referendums before there could be any development on Oven Island or the lighthouse peninsula.  […]