Month: March 2021

Annually, the Downtown Fond du Lac Partnership, Inc. (DFP) selects award winners for Best Interior Renovation, Best Exterior Renovation and Friend of Downtown awards. Interior Renovation of the Year was presented to Bekki Fishelson-Kuber and her husband Vince for their  impressive renovation at Blue Marble Botanicals. From a German American Bank in 1870 to a modern-day apothecary, Blue Marble Botanicals is a beautiful example of craftmanship. Adorned with three crystal […]

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Records show that the mayor of La Crosse disregarded state guidance and refused to supply bottled water for French Island residents with PFAS contaminants in their wells. PFAS pollution from firefighting foam used at the city's airport on the island's north end has been moving southward into residents' wells. The Journal Sentinel obtained records that show Mayor Tim Kabat decided not to supply bottled water […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state schools superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr used her public school district email during work hours last year to set up her private consulting firm.  Kerr used the email address when she was Brown Deer School District superintendent to solicit clients and organize branding for Lead Greatly LLC ahead of her retirement from the job in June. Kerr issued a statement late Thursday downplaying the activity, […]

On this date in 167 years ago the Republican Party was founded in Ripon Wisconsin.  Chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County Rohn Bishop says a small group of anti-slavery, former Whig Party members gathered at the Little White School House in Ripon on March 20, 1854 for the founding meeting of the Republican Party.  "I think we have a special place in history," Bishop told WFDL news.  "If […]

The North Fond du Lac superintendent is one of three finalists for the Fond du Lac School District superintendent position.  Aaron Sadoff joins the assistant superintendent of Educational Services for the Mequon-Thiensville School District Jeridon Clark and South Milwaukee High School Principal,  Jeffrey Fleig as three finalists for the post. The finalists will participate in virtual candidate forums with Fond du Lac School District families, students, staff and community members Monday through Wednesday.  The Board will […]

A motorcycle operator was seriously injured in a crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened Friday on Highway 175 near County Highway HH in the town of Leroy.  A preliminary investigation shows the motorcycle was southbound on 175 at a high rate of speed, when it began to slide on the roadway, traveled off the road,  struck a mailbox and overturned in a cornfield.   The 25 year old motorcycle operator was ejected from the […]