Month: February 2022

A new catering business is open in Waupun with a unique twist.  Casey Koehler and her mother started Go Dutch Solutions for their catering business, but are also offering commercial kitchen space full of commercial equipment for home cooks.  Go Dutch Solutions is located in the former Waupun Christian Home, and in November obtained state certification as a commercial kitchen.  Koehler's mother, Wendy Strook, graduated from Moraine Park Technical College with a degree in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency says a U.S. Postal Service plan to replace its huge fleet of mail-delivery trucks has too few electric vehicles and falls short of President Joe Biden's goals to slow global warming. In a sharply worded letter, the EPA says the Postal Service plan to make 10% of its next-generation fleet electric is a “crucial lost opportunity to more rapidly reduce the carbon footprint […]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Winter is changing across the Great Lakes region, and scientists want to know what that will mean. Teams from more than a dozen U.S. and Canadian universities and government agencies will venture onto the frozen surfaces of all five lakes this month. They'll take water samples from beneath the ice and measure characteristics such as light and nutrient levels. Researchers acknowledge most of their work […]

The Fond du Lac School District has announced that Fond  du Lac High School principal Matt Steinbarth has been hired for the newly created position of Chief of Schools and Educational Accountability.   Steinbarth will begin his new duties next school year and the District will begin a search for a new high school principal in the coming weeks.  Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says Steinbarth will  oversee the day to day operations of schools and […]

Global tensions are pushing oil prices higher and higher prices at the gas pump follow.  State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says uncertainty over Russia's intensions toward Ukiraine is contributing to higher crude oil prices, which are closing in on $90 a barrel.  Jarmusz says higher oil prices will lead to higher pump prices for drivers.  The national average for a gallon of gas has risen to $3.37 cents, $3.12 in Wisconsin:

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are proposing to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer elections. Three Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday proposed the ban as an amendment to the state constitution, which could be put in front of voters to consider as soon as next year. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers would not be able to stop the amendment, which has to pass two consecutive […]

The Fond du Lac County Board has approved salary increases for the elected  positions of Clerk of Courts and Sheriff.   The Clerk of Courts currently makes $78,792 and will get a 3.2 percent raise next year and 2.5 percent increase the following year.   The sheriff  gets a nearly $8,000 raise to $110,500 with a three percent increase each of the next three years. County executive Al  Buechel says the increases are necessary […]

GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. (AP) — A Wisconsin musher wins his fourth John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon title by a wide margin. Ryan Anderson had a one-hour cushion in finishing the 300-mile sled dog race in northeastern Minnesota Tuesday evening. Anderson, of Cushing, Wisconsin also won the race in 2011, 2015 and 2017.  About a dozen mushers, roughly half the field of contenders, had dropped out of the race by midday […]