Month: September 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ben Voelkel, a former aide to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, said Thursday he’s running for lieutenant governor. Voelkel was communications director for Johnson, a Republican, from 2017 to earlier this year. He also worked on Johnson’s re-election campaign in 2016. Voelkel, a native of Mukwonago, also worked on Tommy Thompson’s 2012 Senate campaign and former Gov. Scott Walker’s 2018 re-election campaign. David Varnam, the mayor of […]

Public comments to an online survey  on how the city of Fond du Lac should use federal COVID relief money continue to roll in.  The city of Fond du Lac is deciding how to use its portion of the American Rescue Plan Act funding and is asking residents, businesses and community organizations to provide feedback.  City  Manager Joe Moore says so far the city has received a little over 13 hundred public comments.  […]

Ripon College President Zach Messitte is resigning.  Messittee  says he will leave his position in January to pursue a new career opportunity and live closer to family and friends in Washington D.C.  Messitte has been president of Ripon College since 2012.  He is the 13th president of the 170-year-old institution.  According to a press release the Ripon College Board of Trustees discuss  selecting an interim president during the next few days,  and the launch of a […]

Fond du Lac area residents are walking next month in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.  The annual Walk to End Alzheimer's-Fond du Lac County will be held Saturday October 2 at Moraine Park Technical College.  Dan Weidert says he started volunteering after watching his mom suffer from the disease for many years.  Weidert says over the years the event has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Alzheimer's care, support and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a redistricting lawsuit supported by the Republican-controlled Legislature instead of requiring it to start in lower courts like most cases do. In a 4-3 ruling on Wednesday, the justices sided with the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty in agreeing to take the case. The decision comes as a case brought by Democrats is moving forward […]

The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says he is pleased a jury returned a guilty verdict in a drug overdose case.   A Fond  du Lac jury returned a guilty verdict last Friday against a Milwaukee man in the fentanyl overdose death of a Waupun man.  District Attorney Eric Toney prosecuted the case.   Toney says Sonny Vincent Lawrence was convicted of providing the drugs that led to the overdose death  of Austin […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin deer hunters are being urged by state wildlife officials to submit samples for chronic wasting disease, which is still spreading throughout the state after first being detected nearly 20 years ago. With the hunting season just beginning, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials on Wednesday asked hunters to help them collect data to track the disease’s spread. State wildlife health conservative specialist Amanda Kamps says, […]