The Fond du Lac Police Department has hired another police officer, the fifth officer hired in the last few weeks. Assistant chief Aaron Goldstein says officer Gwen Schneider comes to the Fond du Lac PD from the Fox Valley Metro Police Department where she worked as a Community Service Officer. Last month the Department announced the hiring of four new officers to fill vacancies in the department. Goldstein says one of the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One day will likely cost some Wisconsin residents one month’s worth of food aid. Officials say last week's Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling striking down Gov. Tony Evers’ COVID-19 emergency order means that next month the state will begin losing more than $50 million per month in emergency supplemental FoodShare benefits. The state Department of Health Services says if the Supreme Court would have allowed the governor’s […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin students who get vaccinated for COVID-19 will no longer have to be tested weekly for the virus under a policy that interim President Tommy Thompson calls an incentive to bolster vaccination rates on campus. Thompson says the change he announced Wednesday is designed to maximize the number who get inoculated before they leave campuses and return home this summer. The push to get […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says a handful of the new positive COVID-19 cases from Wednesday were children. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says three of the nine positive cases Wednesday were children not eligible to be vaccinated at this time. Mueller says that’s why it’s important for people who are eligible to get vaccinated. Five people are currently hospitalized in Fond du Lac County with COVID-19.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The majority of Wisconsin Republicans’ plans for spending $3.2 billion in federal stimulus money either may not be allowed under the law or might have to be repaid. That's according to reviews of the bills that are moving quickly through the Legislature by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Republicans are moving to pass bills that would spend the federal money as they want, rather than as […]
As traffic begins to pick up across the country with increased vaccinations and decreased pandemic restrictions, the auto group club AAA reminds drivers about focusing on the road ahead and not their smartphones. April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says distracted driving crashes kill nine people per day. In Wisconsin there were 12,000 crashes, including 29 fatalities in 2019 involving a distracted driver. Jarmusz says […]
The president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council says the city of Fond du Lac’s bill for an open records request on the Lakeside Park controversy is “abusive.” Christine Brennan was told her request for email correspondence regarding Lakeside Park would cost nearly $7,000. Freedom of Information Council president Bill Lueders says what drove the cost of the request into the stratosphere was the cost of locating records. Lueders says often the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Turnout for Wisconsin’s spring election, which had only one statewide race on the ballot with a handful of locally hot contests, barely topped 20%, based on unofficial results. That’s on par with other elections where the state superintendent of schools is on the ballot. In 2017, turnout was just under 16% and in 2013, when there was also a contested Supreme Court race, turnout was just […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin environmental regulators have reached an agreement with the state’s largest business group and won’t release results of water sampling for unregulated PFAS chemicals until the courts decide whether state law allows for testing of the manmade compounds. The agreement between the Department of Natural Resources and Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce means water sampling from industrial and municipal treatment plants for PFAS can continue, but the […]