Month: June 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has rejected a move to ban absentee ballot drop boxes. Conservative businessman Jere Fabick petitioned the Supreme Court in March to ban drop boxes and prohibit elections officials from filling in missing addresses of witnesses on absentee ballot envelopes. He also sought to limit who can return absentee ballots. While the Supreme Court said the lawsuit put forward important questions, the majority […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says America is making progress on racism but that liberals feel it's not good enough. Johnson made the remarks Saturday at the Wisconsin Republican convention at a Wisconsin Dells resort. He took the stage to rail against liberals, saying they've grown angrier over the last decade and want to impose everything they want on conservatives, who just want to be left alone. […]

The Waupun School superintendent says he’s frustrated that a proposed K-12 spending plan in the state budget does not include enough state aid for education.   The GOP-controlled budget committee gave schools $128 million more over the next two years, cut property taxes levied by schools to backfill the lost revenue with state aid,  to secure $2.6 billion in federal coronavirus relief money.   Waupun superintendent Steve Hill  says that translates to no more additional […]

WEYAUWEGA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin is famous for cheese, and one of its dairies is claiming a new feat. Weyauwega Star Dairy unofficially broke its own record for the world’s longest piece of string cheese at 3,832 feet.   The cheesemakers needed a good slice of Weyauwega’s more than 1,700 residents. Standing seven feet apart, on a shut-down Main Street, residents of the northeastern Wisconsin town grabbed a piece of the […]

Fortunately nobody was injured in a series of motor vehicle crashes on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County Saturday.   The Sheriff’s Office responded to six separate crashes  between just before 7am to shortly after 12:30pm Saturday.   The interstate was closed for more than two and a half hours following the first crash between Highway 151 and Hickory Street involving a semi-tractor trailer and vehicle.   Three minutes after the first crash a driver lost […]

Quality Packaging plans to lease space in the former Shur-Line manufacturing facility in the Milwaukee suburb of  St. Francis bringing up to 250 jobs to the community.  The St. Francis city administrator says Quality Packaging will begin moving equipment to the building in July.  Shur-Line, which makes painting supplies such as brushes and rollers,  announced last summer that it would close its St. Francis operations by the end of the year.  Quality Packaging […]

Thousands of people are gathering in Waupun this weekend for  that community’s  biggest summer tourism  festival.  Celebrate Waupun is being held Friday through Sunday  at Tanner Park.  Waupun Festivals Board president Nick Rusch says it’s great to have the event return after being cancelled last year due to the pandemic.  There’s plenty of music and entertainment for the entire family, capped off by a fireworks show Sunday night.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s natural resources policy board is moving ahead with implementing new regulations limiting toxic “forever chemicals” in the state’s water supply. The vote Wednesday by the Natural Resources Board marks the next phase in a process that could take more than two years to complete. The move will allow the state Department of Natural Resources to begin writing regulations to limit the amount of certain fluorinated […]