Month: May 2023

Fond du Lac, Wis. (May 25, 2022) – Envision Greater Fond du Lac’s Leadership Advisory Committee named Sherry Behnke (’02) as the 2023 recipient of the Donald G. Jones Leadership  Alumni Award. Behnke was presented with the award during the Leadership Fond du Lac Completion Ceremony on Wednesday, May 17 at Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts.  The Donald G. Jones Leadership Award was created in 2001 and honors the former area businessman who […]

St. Mary's Springs Academy in Fond du Lac has announced a new director of Admission and Enrollment Management and new Athletic Director.  President Stacey Akey says Shannon LaLuzerne has been named Director of Admission and Enrollment Management and Mitchell  Redig has been hired as the new Athletic Director.  Redig is a 2001 graduate of St. Mary's Springs, and has been the head varsity girls basketball coach for the past 15 years.   He replaces Greg Hoffman […]

FOND DU LAC, WI. May 25, 2023 – Ford Motor Company has named Holiday Automotive a Ford President’s Award winner for the fourth consecutive year. The  prestigious distinction recognizes the achievements of an elite group of top performing Ford stores nationwide that have excelled in delivering the highest level of customer satisfaction in all facets of their operations.   “At Holiday we attract and hire caring, genuine team members and empower […]

An Appleton man is in custody following a high speed chase in Dodge County.  The chase started Wednesday afternoon when a Beaver Dam police officer tried to pull over a stolen vehicle on highway 151 near County highway C.  The pursuit was terminated but police learned the stolen vehicle later crashed into a tree on Well Road near Highway G. The driver was flown by helicopter to a hospital with serious injuries.  The […]

The future redevelopment of the Fond du Lac North Main Street Corridor including the entrance to Lakeside Park was the focus at Wednesday night's Fond du Lac city council meeting.   A consultant presented a report encouraging the city to be proactive in the pursuit of the investment in important commercial and mixed use corridors.  Much of the attention has centered on what to do with the former Saputo Cheese property on […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A jury trial in a lawsuit seeking $2.4 million in damages from Republicans who attempted to cast Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes for Donald Trump in 2020 even though he lost is scheduled to begin just two months before the 2024 presidential election. Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington on Wednesday scheduled the trial to begin on Sept. 3, 2024, and last one month. Defendants are expected […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that damaged a Waupun apartment complex.  Firefighters arrived on the scene at 1100 Rock Avenue around 1:30pm Wednesday to find fire running the entire length of the building. Waupun Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa says several apartment units sustained varying degrees of damage.   "We have three units with moderate to severe fire damage, a fourth unit that has moderate fire damage, four units with varying degrees […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state audit faults the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for how it awarded grants and ventilators to health care providers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The agency’s leader, in her response, defended the awards, emphasizing that the money and ventilators were handed out during a public health emergency with the goal of keeping health care providers open and able to provide care to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan group of legislators wants teachers who sexually harass students go to prison and lose their licenses. Democratic state Reps. Tip McGuire and Tod Ohnstad along with Republican Sens. Jesse James and John Spiros released a bill Wednesday that would make school employees, contractors or volunteers who engage in sexual misconduct against a pupil guilty of a felony punishable by up to 3 1/2 years. […]