Month: June 2021

The Fond du Lac city manager is recommending  three individuals who were outspoken on the Lakeside Park Development issue be appointed to the Advisory Park Board.   Lawrence Foster, who made an unsuccessful bid for Fond  du Lac  city council and the executive director of The Arc Fond  du Lac Liz Morrell are recommended for appointment to the Advisory Board.   Foster and Morrell both supported building a restaurant at the park.  The council will also […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff says he’s confident jail staff followed proper procedures and protocol prior to the death of an inmate last week.   Seventy three year old Donald Forqurean was found dead in his jail cell Friday night.  Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says staff had a conversation with Forqurean shortly before noticing him on camera in an unnatural position in his wheelchair, and returned to his cell to find him pulseless and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill into law banning police chokeholds, except in life or death situations. He signed it Tuesday, the same day the Assembly sent Evers a measure that would penalize local governments that attempt to defund their police departments. Other bills Evers signed will require the reporting of incidents when police used force, the posting of use-of-force policies online and will create […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Food could not be labeled as meat, milk or dairy if they don’t contain those products under bills passed unanimously by the Wisconsin Assembly. The “truth in labeling” measures passed Tuesday are supported by the state’s agriculture and dairy industries as a way to combat what they say are misleading labels for products that don’t actually contain meat, milk or dairy. The California-based Plant Based Foods […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New drivers in Wisconsin could get their learner’s permit six months earlier than is allowed currently under a bill passed by the Assembly. The bill passed unanimously Tuesday would allow for a driver to get their instructional permit at age 15, rather than age 15 and a half. The age to obtain their probationary license would remain 16. Supporters, including AAA Wisconsin, argue that new, teenage […]

One person was killed in a pickup versus semi crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened Monday afternoon at the intersection of state Highway 67 and Town Road MM,  about 2.5 miles south of the Village of Neosho.  According to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office a pickup truck was westbound on Town Road and failed to stop at a stop sign and was struck by a southbound semi-tractor trailer.   The vehicles then entered the ditch […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Newly released department records indicate that three high-level state Justice Department administrators likely didn’t contribute to a hostile workplace. The DOJ asked University of Wisconsin System attorneys to investigate after the office received complaints of a hostile workplace in November 2019. The office was also the subject of a federal complaint this past April from Division of Law Enforcement Services Administrator Tina Virgil, who alleged she […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — School advocates are complaining that the Republican-authored state budget doesn't commit enough state aid to education even though the federal government is set to pump billions in coronavirus relief aid into Wisconsin districts. The GOP-controlled budget committee gave schools $128 million more over the next two years. The state needed to spend almost $400 million more than that to secure $2.3 billion in federal coronavirus relief […]

A Republican lawmaker from Fond du Lac says a Republican authored state budget is good news for the state of Wisconsin.  The Joint Finance committee last week finished its work on the next two year spending plan, paving the way for the Senate and Assembly to vote on it later this month.  Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says in addition to more than 3.3 billion in tax cuts, the plan ensures the state […]