Month: July 2021

The Fondy Food Pantry has received a $2,000 grant from the Enterprise Holdings Foundation through a partnership with Holiday Automotive.   The Enterprise Holdings Foundation was established to allow Enterprise to give back to communities where its partners and employees live and work. Enterprise has a longstanding relationship with Holiday Automotive in Fond du Lac whose core values and community involvement align with the mission of the Enterprise Foundation grant program.  […]

WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed the Republican-written state budget, enacting a spending plan that includes a $2 billion income tax cut. Evers, a Democrat who is running for reelection next year, signed the budget Thursday. However, he kept the income tax cut intact. Evers opted to go along with the GOP-written budget with some changes through his vetoes rather than killing the entire plan, a […]

PHOENIX (AP) — At their best, the Phoenix Suns have three players who can take over a game. There’s Chris Paul and Devin Booker, breaking down defenses from the backcourt. Deandre Ayton has been dominant on the backboards and almost automatic as a shooter. When all three are rolling the way they were in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, it’s easy to see why this could finally be the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly 100,000 Wisconsin voters identified as potentially having moved since the fall of 2019 are being mailed post cards from the state Elections Commission this week telling them how to ensure their registration address is up to date. The mailing is the first since the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in April that the commission should not deactivate the registration of anyone identified as potentially having moved. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Soldiers from a Wisconsin National Guard unit will head to the southwestern border to provide security. The National Guard announced Wednesday that 125 soldiers from the 229th Engineer Company out of Prairie du Chien will head to the border this fall as part of a federal deployment. They will assist with what Guard officials called “non-law enforcement activities" along the border. A Wisconsin National Guard spokesman […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — In cheese-obsessed Wisconsin, which proudly touts itself as America’s Dairyland, the dairy cow is the official domestic animal, milk is the official state beverage and cheese is the official dairy product. But believe it or not, in a state that produces more cheese than any other at 3.4 billion pounds each year, there is no official state cheese. A bipartisan bill being heard by a state […]

A Waupun prison correctional officer was seriously injured after being attacked by an inmate.  Sources tell WFDL news the inmate punched the officer in the head in the kitchen area at Waupun Correctional Institution knocking the officer to the floor, and then kicked the officer in the head.  The officer was transported by ambulance to the hospital.   The incident was reported Tuesday evening.  The inmate, John Gillum, is in prison after being convicted […]

A Mayville man convicted of repeat drunken driving is going to prison.   Dodge County Circuit judge Martin DeVries sentenced 56  year old Gregory Cundy to three years in prison and five years extended supervision.  Cundy was earlier  convicted of OWI Seventh Offense and Obstructing an Officer.    In July of 2019 police received a call that a car trying to parallel park collided with a vehicle behind it and then sped away.   After […]