Month: April 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill requiring Wisconsin middle and high school social studies classes to teach the Holocaust and other genocides. Evers signed the bipartisan bill on Wednesday. It passed the Legislature unanimously. Wisconsin joins 17 other states that require Holocaust education, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An 18th state, Arkansas, has a law taking effect next year. Under Wisconsin's new […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a southeastern Wisconsin strip club owner and his former manager for allegedly offering customers prostitutes. The indictment was unsealed Tuesday in federal court in Milwaukee. According to court documents, Radomir Buzdum owned the TNT club in Lebanon in Dodge County and worked with now-former manager Timothy Miller to recruit prostitutes for customers at the club between 2012 and 2019. They […]

A newly elected Fond du Lac city councilmember says he requested Lakeside Park be put on this week’s city council meeting agenda because that’s what the public expects.  Councilmember Keith Heisler says he along with Tiffany Brault and Patrick Mullen were elected because of their opposition to a Lakeside Park alternate master plan that includes building a restaurant near the park Lighthouse.  In closed session the council will discuss  a controversial enhancement […]

A business group that has pledged millions of dollars to build a restaurant near the Fond du Lac Lakeside Park Lighthouse says they look forward to working with three newly elected councilmembers to put the finishing touches on an alternate master plan even though the candidates campaigned in opposition to the plan.  Lakeside Forward says since last September financial support for the project has increased from $5.2 million to nearly six million dollars.  Envision Greater […]

Fond du Lac County Highway officials are urging people to drive carefully in highway work zones during the construction season.  This is National Work Zone Safety Awareness week.  Fond du Lac County Highway Commissioner Tom Janke says eliminate distractions, like cell phones.  Janke says motorists need to slow down and always expect the unexpected.  This year’s theme is Drive Safe. Work Safe. Save Lives.  Wednesday is Go Orange Day.  People […]