Month: September 2022

The Fond du Lac County Rolling Meadows Golf Course manager says the course is on pace to at least break even financially this season.  The news comes after the new county executive expressed concerns  about the course operating in a deficit over the last several years.   Golf Course manager David Brandenburg says after a slow start because of the weather, play has steadily picked up.  Brandenburg says revenue was up over 20 percent […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has approved guidance for local election clerks making clear that voters with disabilities can receive help from others when mailing or delivering absentee ballots. The commission voted 4-2 on Tuesday to approve the guidance, which was ordered by a federal judge last week. All three Democrats and one Republican voted in favor of the guidance, while Republican commissioner Don Millis and […]

Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac says he's not surprised that Assembly speaker Robin Vos fired former state Supreme Court Jusitce Michael Gableman , ending a 14 month, taxpayer-funded inquiry into the 2020 election.  Thiesfeldt says the investigation got off to a strong start, but then fizzled out for a variety of reasons.  Thiesfeldt says the $1 million in taxpayer money spent on the investigation was more money than […]

BAY CITY, Wis. (AP) — Two people have died in the crash of an experimental airplane in western Wisconsin. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says the plane went down about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in a field near the Red Wing Regional Airport on Highway 35 in Bay City. Officials say the Glass Air Super II SFT had taken off at an airport in Rochester, Minnesota for a training flight. It […]

STRONGS PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice is leading an investigation into the fatal shooting of a man by a sheriff’s deputy. Authorities say an Adams County deputy responded to a report of a person walking in the road in the town of Strongs Prairie about 7 p.m. Tuesday. DOJ’s Division of Criminal Investigation says that when the deputy approached the man, he was found to be […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The man convicted in the fatal shooting of a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband in the school’s arboretum has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Khari Sanford abducted Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre at gunpoint from their Madison home in March 2020 and took them to the UW Arboretum where he shot both of them in the head. […]

The Waupun Fire Chief and Director of Emergency Management is stepping down to become the new Fond du Lac County director of Communications and Emergency Management.   BJ Demaa will replace Bobbie Hicken who is leaving for the private sector.   DeMaa, who has been Waupun Fire Chief since 2014 will begin his new duties October 2.  The city of Waupun will begin a search for a new Fire Chief and Emergency Management director immediately.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is reminding people to protect themselves from mosquito bites now that two animals in the state have tested positive for West Nile Virus.  A bird from Milwaukee County and a horse from Trempealeau County are the first reported West Nile Virus infections in the state this year.  No human cases of WNV have been reported yet in 2022.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says […]

The Fond du Lac School District superintendent admits he was surprised to learn that  four top administrators were stepping down.  Meeting in special session Tuesday night the Fond  du Lac School Board accepted the resignations of the directors of Human Resources and Pupil Services, Stacey Bramstedt and Katie Moder,  Evans Elementary School principal, Amy Rettler and communications director Nicole Noonan.  Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says he thought he had a […]