Month: March 2021

The Fond du Lac School Board has selected to principal of South Milwaukee High School to be the District’s next superintendent.   Dr.  Jeffrey Fleig was selected following interviews Thursday with three finalists,  including North Fond du Lac superintendent Aaron Sadoff.  The next steps in the process include an extensive background check and pursuing a contract with him.  School Board president Susan Jones says Dr. Fleig stood out from a field of […]

Fond du Lac police chief Bill Lamb is retiring.   Lamb announced Friday he will be retiring in May after nearly ten years as chief and 33 years in law enforcement.  The City of Fond du Lac Police and Fire Commission will hold a special meeting next week to formally receive Chief Lamb’s retirement notice.  Lamb says he was initially planning on retiring at the end of last year, but with the pandemic, civil unrest […]

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court has ruled a detective’s testimony in a Sheboygan County human trafficking case was admissible, despite the defendant’s argument that she was not an expert on the issue. Markell Hogan was convicted of human trafficking in 2015 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. At the trial, a Sheboygan police detective who has training in human trafficking investigations, was allowed to testify about […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The state Parole Commission will soon review the case of the last of six men who remains in prison for the 1992 murder of a Green Bay paper mill worker. A parole hearing was held Wednesday for 70-year-old Keith Kutska, one of the six convicted in the death of Tom Monfils, whose body was found at the bottom of a vat filled with pulp at […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reports that the state's unemployment rate remained at 3.8% in February, far below the national rate of 6.2%. A year ago, at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the state unemployment rate was 3.3%. Wisconsin lost 1,000 private-sector jobs in February and is down 129,600 for the year. The department released the latest data on Thursday.

The chairman of the Republican Party of Fond  du Lac County says his jaw hit the floor when he heard the defense for conservative attorney Sydney Powell as she fights a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.   Powell’s attorneys told a federal court this week that “no reasonable person”  would conclude her unfounded claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election were statements of fact.  Chairman of the Republican […]