Month: August 2021

Envision Greater Fond du Lac is launching a new program designed to encourage people to move to Fond du Lac.  Envision president Sadie Parafiniuk says Envision, in collaboration with the county is starting a relocation incentive program using the county’s revolving loan fund.   Parafiniuk says the program would be the first of it’s kind in the state and  will incentivize employers to offer relocation  assistance when  they hire people.  As an example, […]

Businesses and organizations in the Fond du Lac area have been busy conducting school supply drives for Back to School FDL.   Organizers need supply drive hosts and individual donors to drop off all school  supply donations by Friday August 13 so volunteers can sort and organize  the items in time for Distribution Day which is set for Saturday, August 21.   You can drop off your school supply donations at The Salvation Army […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is alerting residents that a convicted child sex offender is being released from prison and will be living at a town of Eldorado residence.   Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says Donald Anderson Jr. was convicted in 1994 of sexually assaulting a 10 year old girl.   Anderson, a Chapter 980 SEXUALLY VIOLENT PERSON,   was recently granted supervised release.   Anderson  will be living at a residence on Nitschke Road beginning Thursday.  […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A GOP-led effort to force two county election clerks to turn over ballots and voting machines is running into resistance among Republicans as well as legal hurdles. Republican Rep. Janel Brandtjen, who chairs the Assembly Elections Committee, issued subpoenas to election clerks in Brown and Milwaukee counties last week. But attorneys for the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council have said only Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Chief […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A GOP-led effort to force two county election clerks to turn over ballots and voting machines is running into resistance among Republicans as well as legal hurdles. Republican Rep. Janel Brandtjen, who chairs the Assembly Elections Committee, issued subpoenas to election clerks in Brown and Milwaukee counties last week. But attorneys for the nonpartisan Wisconsin Legislative Council have said only Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Chief […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials in Wisconsin have set a 300-animal limit for this fall's wolf hunt. The Department of Natural Resources board voted 5-2 Wednesday to set aside the department's recommendation to cap kills at 130. The move is contentious after hunters killed 218 wolves in a court-mandated February season, blowing past their 119-wolf limit and stirring concerns among conservationists about the wolf population's future. But conservative-leaning members […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report says Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin pushed for a tax break in 2017 resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in deductions to megadonors who funded his campaigns. The nonprofit investigative journalism organization ProPublica reported Wednesday that Johnson switched from an opponent of the massive Trump tax cut bill to a supporter after getting the more generous tax cuts that resulted […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new poll finds a majority of Wisconsin residents think both state and national government is broken and there is also a growing feeling that the state is on the wrong track. The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday also found dropping approval ratings for Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and steady ratings for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. About a third of respondents said they […]