GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers say any plans to have fans for home games this season are on indefinite hold due to high COVID-19 rates in the area. Packers officials said fans won’t be admitted until there’s a notable improvement in hospitalizations, the community infection rate and positivity rate. The Packers have played two of their eight home games already. They don’t have another one until […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says the governor’s order restricting public indoor gatherings doesn’t come as a surprise. The order limits public indoor gatherings to 25 percent of the room or building’s capacity. Gatherings in indoor spaces without an occupancy limit are limited to ten people. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says she is surprised that private or religious wedding ceremonies and receptions are exempt. Mueller says that’s […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Republican legislators have standing to appeal a federal ruling that extended the deadline for counting absentee ballots in the battleground state. GOP legislators have asked the full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review a ruling extending the deadline for getting absentee ballots to clerks by six days. The appellate court responded by asking the state Supreme Court […]
The Centers for Disease Control is looking to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for ways to slow the spread of the coronavirus on college campuses. Throughout October the CDC will study how reliable antigen testing is to monitor spread of COVID-19 among UWO students, including those who are asymptomatic. Kim Langolf is the risk manager and project lead for UWO’s COVID-19 Response. She says UWO has one of the most robust status sets […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Election officials have scrapped plans to use the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers' stadiums as early voting sites. The city of Milwaukee's election commission had planned to use Fiserv Forum and Miller Park between Oct. 20 and Nov. 1. Voters could have voted early in person or returned absentee ballots they received in the mail at the stadiums. The commission said Tuesday it would not hold early […]
Fire departments across the state are shifting their focus on getting the fire prevention message out amid the coronavirus pandemic. This week is Fire Prevention Week. Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue Division Chief of Fire Prevention Garth Schumacher says instead of fire station open houses, and in-school demonstrations, educational programming is going online. "This year is going to be a pretty humble year for fire departments trying to get out […]
The president of Envision Greater Fond du Lac says passage of a binding agreement by the Fond du Lac city council last week solidifies a mutual agreement between a business group and city for an alternative Lakeside Park master plan. Sadie Parafiniuk says Lakeside Forward is supportive of changes that were made to the agreement by the city prior to last week’s special meeting. Parafiniuk says she is confident the agreement protects […]
Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will be separated by a clear barrier to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission at tonight’s vice presidential debate. Their only debate will take place in Salt Lake City. Retired Ripon College political scientist Marty Farrell says hopefully there will be a more civil and enlightening discussion of the issues than there was in the first presidential debate last week. So how important is the vice presidential debate […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A prosecutor is expected to announce a decision Wednesday on whether to charge a police officer in the fatal shooting of a Black teenager outside a suburban Milwaukee mall in February. The death of 17-year-old Alvin Cole was the third fatal shooting involving Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah in the last five years. Milwaukee County's top prosecutor ruled the previous two shootings were justified self-defense. Cole was shot […]