Month: April 2021

Carpenter Street from Greenwood Street to Main Street Schedule: April 2021 through June 2021 Description: The project includes reconstruction of the storm force main, sanitary laterals, water main and laterals, storm sewer, roadway, sidewalk and approaches, restoration/landscaping, signals and lighting. April 19 to April 23: The utility contractor will complete installation of sanitary and water laterals. Water tie in will be completed mid-week. Storm sewer installation will begin at the […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who killed a bar patron after robbing the place has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Thirty-eight-year-old Casey Cameron pleaded no contest to felony murder-armed robbery and six counts of reckless endangerment in the October 2019 robbery of a Neenah bar and killing of Kevin “Hollywood” Hein. In exchange for his plea, which wasn’t an admission of guilt but was treated as […]

The UWO-Fond du Lac  campus has a new administrator.  Renee Anderson has been selected for the post.  She has served as interim administrator since last May, overseeing all daily operations and university-wide initiatives.  Anderson is the former regional executive assistant for the northeastern region of the UW Colleges and the UW Oshkosh access campuses.  She was the dean’s executive assistant at UW-Fond du Lac from 2010 to 2015.

The Fond du Lac Area Foundation has announced it is awarding a $50,000 Community Impact Grant to the Fond du Lac Soccer Association.   The grant money will be used to purchase permanent field lights which will allow youth soccer players to train and play games later in the evening, especially in the autumn months.   “Each fall, as the sun sets earlier and earlier, it is a struggle for many of our […]

Habitat for Humanity of Fond du Lac County has  received a  $25,000.00 Impact Grant from the Fond du lac Area Foundation.  Habitat executive director Katie Karls says the money will be used for the Habitat  Rock the Block program,  focusing on the City of Fond du Lac’s Hamilton Street and Forest Avenue neighborhoods this fall.   The brings residents and community partners together to collaborate efforts in targeted neighborhoods.  Rock the Block Fond du Lac will […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A lawsuit by a Madison couple and others alleges that a college grant program for minorities violates the Wisconsin Constitution. The complaint says grants offered by the state’s Higher Educational Aids Board are available to some minorities but not to others. Konkanok Rabiebna and Richard Freihoefer, of Madison, say their biracial teenage son is not eligible for the grant program. The Journal Sentinel reports that the Minority […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Tom Nelson says he has raised nearly $264,000 in the first three months of the year in his bid for the U.S. Senate, about a quarter of what challenger Alex Lasry brought in over six weeks. Nelson, the Outagamie County executive, has cast himself as the financial underdog in the race. He facest Lasry, a Milwaukee Bucks executive and son of a billionaire, and state […]

Nobody was injured a fire that damaged a garage and destroyed a shed in Fond du Lac.  At approximately 9am Friday firefighters were called  to 114 E. 9th St. for a reported detached garage fire.   Upon arrival crews found the rear of the detached garage fully involved in fire.   A small plastic shed behind the garage completely melted to the ground and the fire spread to the nearby detached garage structure.

A Lomira woman has been convicted in connection with the death of her three year old son.  Thirty three year old Jamie Hildebrandt , has pleaded guilty to neglecting a child causing death stemming from an incident in March of last year.   According to a criminal complaint Hildebrant told detectives she laid the child on the floor to change his diaper and forgot that he was there, accidentally stepping on the child when she got […]