Month: February 2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit Wisconsin next week for his first official trip as president. Biden is set to visit Milwaukee next Tuesday, according to the White House, and will participate in a CNN town hall there. While the Biden administration did not share further details of the trip, the president has been focused heavily on addressing the coronavirus pandemic and passing his COVID-19 relief bill since […]

The chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County has been unanimously re-elected to the post.  Rohn Bishop was re-elected during the party’s annual caucus last week.  Bishop says it felt especially good because of the heat he had taken from some members of his own party for speaking out in favor of mail-in voting before the election, and then rejecting allegations by the Trump campaign that the election […]

The state Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal  of the homicide conviction of an over the road trucker from Kenosha in the death of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County.   The state high court declined,  without comment, Dennis Brantner’s appeal to vacate his second degree reckless homicide conviction in the 1990 death of Berit Beck.  Brantner argued his conviction should be vacated because evidence presented during his trial was […]

The Fond du Lac Family YMCA has announced the appointment of Holly Luehring to a two-year term as president of the Y’s board of directors. The appointment was made at the Y’s virtual January Board of Director meeting. Luehring, Director of Marketing and Communications at Michels Corporation, replaces past president, Mike Hierl, who has served on the Y board since 2017.  Luehring sits on the Executive/Governance and Communications committees and […]

Envision Greater Fond du Lac will host a City Council Candidate Forum on Tuesday, February 9, 2021 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the City/County Building in the City Council Chambers. The event will be moderated by retired Fond du Lac County Judge, Gary Sharpe. Candidates will be in the City Council Chambers, socially-distanced, and asked a series of questions as they pertain to three topics currently impacting the City: Lakeside […]

One person was killed and one person received life-threatening injuries in a two-vehicle collision in Dodge County.   The crash happened Monday on state Highway 33 near County Highway A in the town of Fox Lake.  The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a truck-tractor trailer jackknifed, traveling over the centerline of Highway 33 and was struck by a Mack truck. The 60 year old driver  of the Mack truck was pronounced dead […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Turnout is expected to be low in Wisconsin’s spring election primary next week, where there’s one low-profile state race on the ballot in addition to more than 100 local races.   In Fond du Lac there are races for Fond du Lac city council and school board.  Meagan Wolfe, the state’s top elections official, said Monday that based on returns of absentee ballots so far and the […]