Fond du Lac Community Theatre (FDLCT) will host the holiday classic, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, November 16 – 19, 2023. Performances on November 16, 17, and 18 will begin at 7:00 p.m.; November 19 performance will begin at 2:00 p.m. “What a great show to head into the holiday season,” Tracy Qualmann, Board of Directors, President, said. “Inspired by the classic American film of its namesake, this […]
The 2023 holiday shopping season promises to be an unpredictable one. High inflation rates and increased prices of consumer goods are already throwing a wrench into holiday shopping. Electronics, toys, and other products will be (or already are) in short supply, and retailers are struggling to staff up as the shopping season nears. Just like in 2022, people plan to start their holiday shopping early. Watch out for deals well before Black Friday sales. Retailers are also expecting […]
Another Wisconsin university has announced major layoffs to reduce budget deficits. The University of Wisconsin-Platteville is eliminating 111 positions, or 12% of its workforce. Sixty employees will be laid off, 31 open positions will be cut and 32 people agreed to a voluntary separation agreement. Eleven faculty are retiring. Earlier this month, UW-Oshkosh announced 140 people were being laid off and another 110 positions were being eliminated through early retirements or vacancies to help close […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers cornerback Eric Stokes’ comeback from a foot issue that sidelined him for nearly a year lasted only four plays before he got knocked out for multiple weeks again. Stokes went back on injured reserve Wednesday after hurting his left hamstring three days earlier in a 19-17 loss at Denver. The 2021 first-round pick from Georgia was playing his first game since injuring […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials have signed off on a contentious new wolf management plan that doesn't include a specific population goal. The Department of Natural Resources' policy board voted 7-0 Wednesday to approve the proposal. The DNR adopted a management plan in 1999 that calls for capping the state's wolf population at 350. The DNR's latest estimates put the population at around 1,000 wolves. Hunters and farmers […]
The unemployment rate is down locally, in all but one Wisconsin county, and every metro area in the state last month. The September unemployment rate in Dodge County was 2.8 percent, down three-tenths of a percent from August. In Fond du Lac County the unemployment rate fell from 3.3 to 2.8 percent last month. The jobless rate in the city of Fond du Lac dropped six-tenths of a percent to 3.2 percent in September.
Do you want to live to 100? Thanks to modern medicine, you have a decent chance of doing so. But if you want to live well to 100, physician and best-selling author Peter Attia says you may have some work to do so your last decade of life is healthful and rewarding, not limited by disease. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says Attia talks about "the Four Horsemen […]
The Fond du Lac School District superintendent says a donation to upgrade playground equipment at every elementary school in the district is the largest donation of it's kind in school district history. Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says the National Exchange Bank Foundation and Barbara and Peter Stone Foundation have donated $1 million for new playground equipment at each elementary school in the district. Dr. Fleig says groundbreaking is planned for April with the […]
Fond du Lac County Sheriff's investigators still don't know why a school bus crashed on a highway last week seriously injuring two student passengers. Sheriff's captain Bill Tadych says the driver lost control of the bus on a straight stretch of Highway 44/49 north of Highway KK last Friday afternoon, entering a ditch, striking a raised driveway, before coming to rest in the ditch. Tadych says two children on the bus were […]