Month: July 2023

Parkinson's disease can affect speech in several ways making it difficult to communicate with family and friends.   Speech therapy typically is the main treatment and SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac is now offering the Parkinson Voice Project Speak Out program.  SSM Health speech language pathologist Angela Hall says speech therapists teach exercises and techniques to improve the volume and clarity of speech.  Hall saysthe program encourages patients to speak with intent.  She […]

REESEVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Investigators are looking into what caused a freight train to derail outside a small village in south-central Wisconsin. The train derailed just west of the village of Reeseville in Dodge County around 2 p.m. Tuesday. Nearly 30 cars crashed, spilling grain and potash. No one was hurt. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schimdt says there were no dangerous chemicals on the train. Chris Abell, deputy chief of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A fight over whether Wisconsin’s top elections official will keep her job has potential implications for the 2024 presidential contest in a perennial battleground where statewide margins are typically razor thin. Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, has been targeted by conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 election. As her term comes to an end, Republicans who control the state Legislature want her […]

The Foundation for Ripon Community Hospital has donated $150,000 to support the Boys & Girls Club of the Tri-County Area as part of its capital campaign to build a state-of-the-art facility in downtown Ripon.  The 30,000-square-foot, two-story complex will include four early childhood classrooms, extensive youth program areas, gymnasium, a performing arts studio and most impressively, a skilled trades center for teens. The club’s goal is to raise $10 million […]

Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of vehicles and vehicle entries in Dodge, Fond du Lac, Winnebago and Outagamie Counties.  Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says in Dodge County the thefts occurred in the northeastern part of  the county along Highway 175.   Following a coordinated investigation the suspected leader of the theft ring  was arrested in Fond du Lac County, and two other suspects were arrested in the Fox Valley.   Schmidt […]

Careless use of smoking materials are being blamed for a fire that caused minor damage to a home in Dodge County.   Saturday morning Waupun firefighters were called to a residence on Redwood Road and found a mattress and blanket smoldering in a bedroom.  The mattress was removed from the home and the fire was extinguished.  The home received smoke damage.  Nobody was hurt.

An Oshkosh man was arrested following a high speed chase in Fond du Lac County.  The chase started early Saturday morning when a Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle for a speeding over 120 miles an hour on southbound Interstate 41 at County Hwy Y in the town of Byron.  The vehicle exited  at State Highway 49 in Dodge County,   reentered Fond du Lac County  on Drumline Drive where […]

Nobody was injured in a mobile home fire in Fond du Lac.  Shortly after 9pm Friday firefighters were called to the scene on Van Dyne Road and quickly extinguished the fire in an area near an electrical outlet.  Fire damage was limited to that area.  Investigators determined faulty wiring and an overloaded outlet caused the f ire.