After being closed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic The Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac is welcoming the public back into the museum. Museum executive director Andrea Welsch says the museum reopened Saturday exactly one year to the date that it closed due to the pandemic. Welsch says the museum is reopening with new hours from 9am to noon and 1:30pm to 4pm Saturdays and Sundays March […]
A principal in the Waterford School District has been selected as the new Oakfield School District superintendent. Tracey Conners will replace Vance Dalzin who is retiring at the end of the school year. Conners is the principal of an elementary school with 29 years of educational experience, including 25 years in the West Bend School District.
Law enforcement has taken a man into custody that created a stir in the village of Lomira. Schools and several businesses were placed in lockdown as police searched for an individual Friday afternoon. No word on what the subject was wanted for. The subject was found hiding in a dumpster.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says everyone age 16 and up in Wisconsin will be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine on May 1. State health officials said Thursday that everyone in the state would be eligible sometime in May. Hours later, President Joe Biden said he wanted states to make everyone eligible by May 1. Evers said on Friday that the state will meet that deadline. Evers didn't […]
An Oshkosh man has been charged in connection with a rash of storage unit burglaries in Fond du Lac County. Thirty four year old Kevin Brown faces 31 counts including conspiracy to commit burglary, and receiving stolen property. According to a criminal complaint, Brown and other accomplices broke into storage units in Dodge, Fond du lac and Winnebago counties. According to the complaint some of the items were sold for cash, and other items […]
The chairman of the Assembly Education committee says he hasn’t made up his mind on whether starting school early next school year is something he would support. Governor Tony Evers has floated the idea of starting school before September 1 as a way for students to catch up after a year of virtual learning during the pandemic. Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac says there has been a learning gap that […]
Wisconsin could save more than $1.6 billion over the next two years by expanding Medicaid to cover nearly 91,000 additional low-income people, a move Republicans continue to block. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau says that the federal COVID-19 relief bill Congress passed Wednesday would provide Wisconsin more than $1 billion in new, temporary savings if the state adopts Gov. Tony Evers’ call for Medicaid expansion. The Democratic governor has proposed […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin state schools superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr is proposing decentralizing the Department of Public Instruction and moving or rehiring its more than 400 employees from Madison into offices across the state. Kerr is a former Brown Deer superintendent who is backed by conservatives. She faces Pecatonica Superintendent Jill Underly in the April 6 election. Underly is backed by the state teachers union and Democrats. Kerr detailed her […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group that opposes to basing the new F-35 fighter jets at Truax Field in Madison has filed a second lawsuit challenging the military’s environmental review. Safe Skies Clean Water Wisconsin filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court alleging the Air Force and National Guard Bureau failed to follow the law when it considered the impacts of its decision to locate the jets at the 115th […]