Month: July 2023

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has dismissed a GOP state lawmaker’s challenge over military voting records, saying that the lawsuit should have been brought against a local elections official, not the statewide elections commission. Rep. Janel Brandtjen, the former head of the Assembly elections commission who has embraced election conspiracy theories, sued in November to stop military absentee ballots from being counted. Brandtjen and a local veterans group […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans to visit southeast Wisconsin this week. She will making a stop in Pleasant Prairie on Thursday to tout broadband and affordable connectivity before going to Milwaukee for a pair of campaign receptions. The White House announced the planned stops on Sunday. There were no immediate details about the campaign events. Harris will be joined by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo for the […]

The friend of a family displaced from their Fond du Lac home following a fire last week says they lost everything in the fire.  The fire last Tuesday on County Road K at the Eric and Sara Freund home caused extensive damage to the basement and smoke damage throughout the home.  Kadie Meyer has set up a GoFundMe account for the Freund family.  Meyer says the family lost all of their possessions […]

The U.S. economy surprisingly accelerated to a 2.4 percent annual growth rate from April through June, showing continued resilience in the face of steadily higher interest rates resulting from the Federal Reserve's 16 month long fight to bring down inflation.   Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says last quarter's expansion was well above the 1.5 percent annual rate that economists had forecast.  Driving thegain was a burst of business investment, which surged […]

A new automation engineering degree at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh fills a significant manufacturing need in Wisconsin for engineering professionals with programming skills.  UW Oshkosh is the first in the UW System to offer the program, which complements UWO’s existing engineering technology offerings and boosts research, economic development, entrepreneurship and sustainability in northeastern Wisconsin and beyond.  “This is a great example of UW Oshkosh responding to the needs of […]

Celebrate the start of the school year with the entire family at Holy Family Catholic Community’s Back-to-School Concert featuring the Catholic family band MJM7 on Sunday, August 27 at Holy Family Church.  MJM7 is led by Michael James Mette and his teen and preteen children, Charity, Cecilia, and MJ. Together, they share their “gifts of music, joy, and family life” to offer a performance which is a hybrid of a […]

Three people were injured in an alcohol-related wrong way crash in Fond du Lac County.  Shortly after 10:30pm Sunday a car traveling north in the southbound lanes of Highway 151 near County Highway Y collided head on with a southbound vehicle.  The driver of the southbound vehicle, a 20 year old Madison man, received minor injuries.  A passenger, a 28 year old Menomonee Falls woman, was transported to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah […]

Firefighters from 20 departments battled a blaze that destroyed an apartment complex in Taycheeda and displaced 14 residents.  Shortly after 10am Sunday firefighters were called to the Meadowlark Village Apartments on Spring Street to find the middle of three separate apartment buildings engulfed in flames.   All of the occupants were able to safely evacuate including one person who escaped out of a second floor window.   No injuries were reported.  The Red Cross is assisting […]

On July 29, 2023, the Waupun and Beaver Dam Fire Departments, the Waupun Police Department, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Cadets, and the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office had the honor of being part of a military family reunion. Eugene (Gene) Sanders is a member of the Army National Guard and returned home after a 10-month deployment overseas. Amy Sanders contacted us last week and asked if we would help surprise her […]