Month: March 2023

National Exchange Bank & Trust Chairman of the Board Peter Stone announced today that James Chatterton, president and COO, will retire from the bank after 35 years of service, and Eric Stone, current CEO, will assume the President/CEO combined role.   Chatterton had been the Chief Executive Officer of American Bank for 17 years, before becoming president of National Exchange Bank & Trust when the two banks merged in 2016. Chatterton […]

The Fond du Lac County executive is asking county residents to observe a moment of silence next week in honor of the late county executive Allen Buechel.    Buechel died in March  2022 from a heart attack.   He was 74 years old.   County executive Sam Kaufman says to commemorate this anniversary he is asking residents to take a moment of silence at 4:15pm Monday March 27th   "To honor Allen's legacy and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The liberal candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court isn't backing down from her support for abortion rights or her belief that the state's Republican-drawn legislative maps are unfair. During a debate Tuesday, Janet Protasiewicz called her GOP-backed opponent, Dan Kelly, “a true threat to our democracy” because he consulted with Republicans about their plan to seat fake electors to support Donald Trump after […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is working to keep the spotlight on abortion ahead of next month's Wisconsin Supreme Court election, resurrecting a bill that would repeal the state's 1849 abortion ban. Republican lawmakers rejected the bill last summer. It has next to no chance of passing this time, but Evers and Democratic lawmakers held a news conference Tuesday to promote the measure. Abortion figures to be […]

Waupun is celebrating it's 184th birthday this week.   The community was formed March 20, 1839 by Seymour Wilcox, the first settler along the Rock River.   Mayor Rohn Bishop says Waupun was originally supposed to be named "Waubun" but the state of Wisconsin made a spelling error, and Waupun's founders never bothered to change it.  The territorial census in 1847 showed the Town of Waupun to have a population of 956.  […]

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is leading a coalition of 23 attorneys general in calling on the leadership of Kia America (Kia) and Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai) to take swift and comprehensive action following a rash of car thefts that Kaul says has occurred as a result of the companies’ failure to equip vehicles with anti-theft immobilizers.   Alarmingly high theft rates for Kia and Hyundai models continue across the country, […]

After struggling with a staffing shortage to start the year the Dodge County District Attorney's Office is nearly at full strength.  Recently appointed DA  Andrea Will has announced that one ADA has returned from leave and three new assistant DAs have been hired.  A managing attorney will start this summer.  Will says ADA Shawn Woller comes to Dodge County from the Waukesha County DAs Office.  ADA Chad Wozniak is transferring from the Milwaukee […]

Moraine Park Technical College will host Future Fair, a community-wide job fair, on Wednesday, April 12 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Fond du Lac Campus Conference Center.   The event will feature over 65 employer exhibitors, all are looking to hire skilled workers immediately.   “This is our first job fair of this magnitude since the pandemic,” Michele Sabel, employment services specialist at Moraine Park, said. “We are excited […]

HORTONVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Investigators with the state Department of Justice are investigating a mysterious death in northeastern Wisconsin. The Justice Department said in a statement that police officers were called to a house in the village of Hortonville in Outagamie County on Saturday morning on a report of two unresponsive individuals. Officers found a dead woman and a man with serious injuries. The man was taken to a local […]