Month: May 2023

Advisory for Ozone (Orange) Start Date/Time: Thursday, May 11 - 3:00 pm EDT End Date/Time: Thursday, May 11 - 11:59 pm EDT Counties: Kenosha, Racine, Walworth, Rock, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Dane, Ozaukee, Washington, Dodge, Columbia, Sauk, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette, Adams, Juneau, Calumet, Winnebago, Waushara, Brown, Outagamie, Waupaca, Portage, Wood, & Marathon Comments: The air quality index is expected to reach the UNHEALTHY FOR SENSITIVE GROUPS level. People […]

St. Mary’s Springs Academy introducing  January Term (J-Term) to the 2023-2024 high school academic curriculum. In an ongoing effort to advance SMSA’s curriculum through innovative styles of teaching and enrichment. SMSA will be the first high school in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee and the Flyway Conference to implement J-Term.   J-Term courses will provide a unique opportunity for students to immerse themselves in a single subject, an area of interest, along […]

Lighthouse Drive – Lakeside Park Schedule: April through May Description: The project includes the reconstruction of Lighthouse Drive with new pavement, multi-use path, street  lighting, parking stall layout, restoration, and tree plantings. May 15 to May 19: Landscaping contractor will continue with restoration. Pavement marking mid-week Traffic Impacts: Lighthouse Drive is closed to through traffic. Eleventh Street – Park Avenue to Vine Street Description: The project includes gas main and […]

SILVER CITY, Mich. (AP) — An 8-year-old Wisconsin boy who spent two days lost in a remote, rugged northern Michigan park says he prayed during his ordeal that he wouldn’t be “stuck out here for the rest of my life.” Second grader Nante Niemi was helping relatives gather wood at the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula when an uncle told him to return to camp last […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The debate over free speech and racial equity on Wisconsin’s college campuses is intensifying. It's mirroring a national battle as Republicans work to close campus diversity offices and demand students and faculty treat conservative speakers with respect. In just the past two weeks in Wisconsin, a student posted racial slurs, a top Republican proposed eliminating campus diversity offices and a medical college cancelled a diversity symposium. […]

SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac is giving $3,000 to REACH Waupun to support its Get Active! program, which is designed to help improve the health and well-being of youth in the Waupun community.    “We’re pleased to help support this very important local initiative through our community benefit program,” according to DeAnn Thurmer, SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital/SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital president. “Studies show that sports play a […]

FOND DU LAC, WI – Look out for speedy Spiders on the basepaths! Each time a Dock Spiders player steals a base at home this season (including playoffs), Silica For Your Home will donate $50 to the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac. Silica For Your Home recently celebrated 100 years of service to the Fond du Lac-area community in 2022 and are proud of their family business […]

Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College awarded its annual Business and Industry Partner Awards at a luncheon last week, April 26. All the nominees were invited to attend and celebrate the College’s valued partnerships of 2022.  The College’s Economic and Workforce Development (EWD) recognizes five partnership awards each year: Excellence in Partnership, Employer of the Year, Innovation, New Partner of the Year and Workforce Development Champion.  “The Business Partner Awards […]

The driver of a semi-tractor trailer was flown by helicopter to the hospital with seriousbut non life-threatening  injuries following a crash in Fond du Lac.    Shortly before midnight Wednesday rescue personnel were called to East Johnson Street and Wisconsin American Drive where the semi had flipped over.   Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says the semi was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of the crash.   Goldstein says the driver […]