Month: December 2020

The Fond du Lac School District hopes to hire a new superintendent before the end of the school year.  The board met with it’s consultant, Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates  in a  workshop this week to discuss the search process.  Interim superintendent Sharon Simon says the consultant will get staff and community input to develop a profile before accepting applications for the position.  Simon says the firm also will have contacts of superintendents […]

Fond du Lac County Executive Al Buechel has officially announced he is running for re-election.  Buechel was first elected to the Fond du Lac County Board in 1976 and was first elected county executive in 1993 and re-elected every term since.  "I think I still have a lot to contribute for the county.  I love what I do,"   Buechel told WFDL news.  "There's no greater pleasure for me than to […]

A member of a bipartisan climate change task force says recommendations in a newly released report are achievable and necessary.   The report, released last week, includes 55 recommendations designed to adapt to climate change and limit its negative impacts, while also seeking to improve the economy and tap opportunities for renewable energy and conservation.  Executive Director of the Wisconsin Conservation Voters Kerry Schumann told WFDL news the report’s recommendations for a reduction of […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Hales Corners officials say the man charged in a fatal shooting in Milwaukee that prosecutors say involved an argument over high school basketball has resigned his position as a firefighter in the village. Twenty-three-year-old Caesar Fuentes has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of 24-year-old Andre Nicholson early Sunday. Police say the two men argued over which high school basketball team was better at […]

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who was obsessively concerned about the coronavirus pandemic has been ordered to spend the rest of his life in a mental health institution for stabbing four of his family members, two of them fatally. Thirty-six-year-old Adam Roth was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect in the attack. The Waukesha man told a detective the day after the March stabbing […]

Construction remains on schedule at the new SSM Health clinic in Beaver Dam.  With the weather turning colder, most of the work is focused on the facility’s interior,   however, some exterior work continues.   The new 40,000-square-foot, stand-alone clinic will house SSM Health primary and specialty care providers and Fond du Lac Regional Clinic providers, as well as imaging, laboratory and pharmacy services. Once built, SSM Health will move services currently provided in leased […]

A Beaver Dam man has been convicted of killing his ex-wife.  Ulisses Medina Espinosa has pleaded guilty to first degree intentional homicide  in the shooting death of Stacia Hollinshead in his parents’  home March 23.   An autopsy shows the victim was shot 15 times, including three times in the head.    A five-year-old child witnessed the murder and provided extensive details to police about the shooting.  A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 5.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has acknowledged that Democrat Joe Biden is the president-elect and the election was legitimate, and says he won't object when Congress meets next month to tabulate the Electoral College results. However, Johnson says that he still has unanswered questions about the election and that he plans to move ahead with a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Wednesday to look into “legitimate questions” […]