A man was rescued Tuesday morning after falling through thin ice on Beaver Dam Lake. Using his cell phone the victim said he had fallen through the ice by an ice heave on the lake and was able to get out of the water but was unable to make it back to shore. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office used a drone to locate the individual on the Lake west of Sunset Bay Drive […]
Two members of the Fond du Lac police department administrative team are currently not working in the Department after one was suspended and the other is on leave. Fond du Lac Police Chief Bill Lamb told WFDL news Lieutenant Tyler Tikkanen is currently serving a disciplinary suspension and Lieutenant Ed Wenzel is on personal leave. Lamb says while Lieutenant Tikkanen has received discipline the matter is not complete and he cannot comment further […]
Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac is urging school districts to return to full in-class instruction after the first of the year. The chair of the Assembly committee on education says the widespread, long-term closures of school buildings since March has been the "poorest government decisions of the pandemic." Thiesfeldt says the decision not to have in-class instruction during the pandemic will be impacting some students for […]
The Fond du Lac School District interim superintendent says the goal is still to have in class instruction five days a week at some point before the end of the school year. Sharon Simon says the District has been holding it's own since returning to a blended model after the Thanksgiving holiday. The District was forced to go to all remote learning earlier last month due to a staff shortage because of COVID […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is promising that students will be able to return to campuses for the spring semester. Regents President Andrew Petersen said Monday that regents expect students will be able to return at the end of January, hoping that more robust COVID-19 testing will help stave off the types of outbreaks that forced the system to turn […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that damaged playground equipment at Fond du Lac’s Lakeside Park. Shortly before 4:30pm Monday Fond du Lac firefighters were called to the park on Harbor View Drive for a report of playground equipment on fire. Upon arrival crews found a large combustible playground set on fire. The fire was extinguished but not before the equipment was destroyed. “This is quite disturbing”, Fire Chief Peter O’Leary said. “This is […]
Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin is expecting shipments of the Moderna vaccine to begin arriving at hospitals and clinics across the state this week. The initial shipment is expected to be 16,000 doses, with state health officials planning to receive a total of 100,000 doses in the upcoming weeks. Unlike the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the Moderna vaccine can be stored in normal freezers, which allows the vaccine to be shipped […]
The senate majority leader says his proposal that would allow clerks to count absentee ballots a day before election day would help give voters confidence in the election process. Senate Republican leader Devin Lemahieu says allowing for earlier counting of ballots is one of his priorities in 2021. Lamahieu says there was confusion and conspiracy theories after the general election when it took so long to count absentee ballots in places like Milwaukee […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A man who fell through the ice on Kenosha County's Hooker Lake is expected to survive after a dramatic rescue that also sent a a sheriff's deputy into the icy water. The incident happened Sunday evening on a pond east of Hooker Lake. A man had fallen through the ice and couldn't get out. Kenosha County Deputy Colin Coultrip was the first to arrive and found […]