Month: January 2021

Dear Fond du Lac School District Families, There are several important updates we want to share with you following last night’s Board of Education meeting and workshop. In-Person Platform Students: Move to Traditional Modified Model (Five Days of In-Person Learning) on February 15, 2021 The Board gave the District guidance to move to the Traditional Modified model for all students enrolled in the In-Person Platform on February 15, 2021. Traditional […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate has voted to repeal Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate, despite warnings from virtually every sector of the health care community that doing so would impair efforts to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate voted Tuesday to repeal the mandate. Both legislative chambers have to pass the resolution in order to undo the mask requirement. The Assembly scheduled it for a vote […]

The Fond du Lac County Health Department has a thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccine ready to administer to residents age 65 and older starting this week.  "This is so exciting,"  Public Health Officer Kim Mueller told WFDL news.  "This is what we've been waiting for."  Mueller says the first in a series of vaccine clinics will be held Wednesday at the Fairgrounds Expo Building.   "To me, to all of my staff, […]

More people will get vaccinated at a clinic this week at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds than originally thought.   The clinic is being offered for county residents aged 65 and older.  Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says that’s  the CDC now says there are six doses of the COVID-19 vaccine per vial instead of five.  Mueller says instead of 1,000 vaccine doses, there will be closer to 1,170 doses administered Wednesday.  Mueller says […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health officials say teachers and child care workers will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in early March. The state Department of Health Services' website said Tuesday that educators and child care workers will be eligible around March 1. People enrolled in Medicaid long-term care plans, some public-facing essential workers, non-front-line essential health care workers and residents and staff in shared housing situations such as condominiums, […]