Month: May 2021

AAA is forecasting Memorial Day holiday travel will rebound to more than 37 million nationwide, and over 700,000 Wisconsinites expected to take a trip during the holiday weekend.  AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says that’s a record  60-percent increase from last year.  The predicted jump in travel is still 14 percent below pre-pandemic levels.  A huge increase in air travel is expected, but most Memorial Day travelers will be taking road trips.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A tribal leader says Native Americans in Wisconsin are struggling to overcome increased drug abuse related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the annual State of the Tribes address to Assembly lawmakers at the Capitol Tuesday afternoon, Lac du Flambeau President John Johnson Sr. says increased drug abuse has claimed those most vulnerable during the public health crisis. Johnson says the flow of illegal drugs into the […]

A Fond du Lac intersection is closed for a couple of weeks for sanitary sewer work.  Fond du Lac Public Works says the intersection of Doty and Sibley Streets is closed  for two weeks to allow the utility contractor to set up a generator and bypass for the sanitary sewer at the intersection.   The generator will be running 24 hours a day in order to keep  continuous flow of sanitary from the […]

A new report by the National Federation of Independent Businesses shows a record high reading of unfilled job openings among small businesses.  The April jobs report shows a record 44 percent of small business owners report having job openings they could not fill, 22 points higher than the 48 year historical average and two points higher than March.  NFIB state director Bill Smith says while it’s not a new problem the pandemic has aggravated the […]

Envision Greater Fond du Lac is joining cities nationwide to increase awareness of the work economic developers do to enhance local economic impact.   This week is National Economic Development Week.   Envision president Sadie Parafiniuk says the Fond du Lac County has fared better than many areas during the pandemic when it comes to business retention and economic development.  "We have been fairly lucky in Fond du Lac County,"  Parafiniuk told WFDL news.  […]

Photo: Peter and Mary Beyer of Mt. Calvary and Shawn Fisher-Agnesian HealthCare Foundation Executive Director Mary Beyer of Mt. Calvary is the grand prize winner of $100,000 in the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation Samaritan Clinic Cash Raffle.  Beyer says she’s not sure what she is going to do with the money.   Other prize winners include: Second prize, $10,000: Jane Wirtz, Plymouth Third prize, $4,000: JoAnn Streeter, Fond du Lac Fourth to […]

Nobody was injured and a Milwaukee man is in custody following a high speed chase in Fond du Lac County.   It started shortly after 5pm Tuesday  after the Fond du Lac County Communications Center received several calls regarding a reckless driver traveling south on I-41 near Scott St. Witnesses reported the vehicle was passing cars on the gravel shoulder and traveling at a high rate of speed.  Deputies  located the vehicle near  southbound I-41 and […]