Month: June 2022

TORNADO WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WT 371 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 225 PM CDT WED JUN 15 2022 TORNADO WATCH 371 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS WISCONSIN COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE: ADAMS                BROWN               CALUMET CLARK                COLUMBIA            CRAWFORD DANE                 DODGE               DOOR FLORENCE             FOND DU LAC         FOREST GRANT                GREEN               GREEN LAKE IOWA                 JACKSON             JEFFERSON JUNEAU               KEWAUNEE            LAFAYETTE LANGLADE             LA CROSSE           LINCOLN MANITOWOC            MARATHON            MARINETTE MARQUETTE            MENOMINEE           MILWAUKEE MONROE               […]

The Waupun Common Council has approved  a developer's agreement clearing the way for the first phase of a $100 million expansion project in the Waupun industrial park.  United Cooperative says the first phase will include a feed production operation scheduled for completion in 2024, followed by grain storage in phase two and soybean processing in phase three.  Envision Greater Fond du Lac president Sadie Vander Velde says the project has been in […]

The CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Fond du Lac, Dan Hebel,  has been selected for the 2021-22 Fond du Lac School Districts Friend of Education Award.  The School District says Hebel has been instrumental in working with the school district to establish partnerships to provide after school programs. He also collaborated closely with the District throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, such as opening the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac to […]

Do you look forward to watching your neighbor’s yard grow and blossom each year?   Have you ever driven past a yard and the landscaping made you do a double take?  If so,  you can nominate them for a Fond du Lac County Beautification Award.  Nominations will be accepted until Monday, July 18.  Nominations can be made by emailing, mailing  or calling  the county clerk's office.  Email county.clerk@fdlco.wi.gov   Call the County Clerk’s Office, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican Party is launching a nine-city “election integrity” tour hitting battleground Wisconsin’s most liberal cities, events that feature a conservative former state Supreme Court justice and that come less than two months before the state’s August primary. The events, which kick off Wednesday, are drawing blowback from those who say the round tables are intended to spread lies about what happened in the 2020 election […]

UNION GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Two people died in a fiery head-on crash involving two semi-tractor trailers Tuesday in southeastern Wisconsin. Union Grove-Yorkville Fire Department Chief Tim Allen says a tanker truck hauling corn starch and a semi hauling plastic drain tile collided on state Highway 11 east of Union Grove. Both drivers were killed. Allen says authorities have no details on a possible cause. The Racine Journal Times reports […]

The Fond du Lac Police and Fire Commission has voted unanimously  to appoint Erick Gerritson as the next Fond du Lac Fire Chief.  Gerritson was selected out of a field of nine applicants, and was the only finalist interviewed for the position.   The PFC requested the input of the public through two online surveys during the course of the recruitment and viewed those results prior to the final interview Tuesday.  Gerritson […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Many of the nation’s most vulnerable Democrats are actively trying to distance themselves from Washington — and their party — as the midterm season enters its next phase. Democratic candidates in key midterm battlegrounds are facing deep frustration from the voters who will decide their fate in November. Candidates in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Hampshire are railing against the institutions that they have controlled for […]

The prices of gas, food and most other goods and services jumped in May, raising inflation to a new four-decade high and giving American households no respite from rising costs. Consumer prices surged 8.6% last month from 12 months earlier, faster than April’s year-over-year increase of 8.3%.  Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs admits he is surprised.  Schoofs the biggest reason was the price of gasoline.  The new inflation figure, the […]