Month: April 2024

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers announced today that Nestlé Purina PetCare Company, which feeds more than 46 million dogs and 68 million cats every year, is expanding its production facility in Jefferson—a $195 million project that is expected to bring an additional 100 jobs to the community it has called home since 1910. “We are thrilled that Nestlé Purina is moving forward with expanding its Jefferson facility and that we […]

Announcing the Kids From Wisconsin’s 56th season! Widely recognized for their versatile talents and groundbreaking performances, these icons impacted the music industry and pop culture into another stratosphere. The 56th Kids From Wisconsin troupe showcase these "larger than life" performing artists in their highly energized and highly anticipated 2024 summer production. Featured are historic bands and orchestras that have sold out world stadiums, kings and queens from rock to pop, […]

Nobody was injured when a school bus was rear-ended by a vehicle in Fond du Lac County.  The crash happened Thursday morning on Highway 151 near Fisherman Road. There were two children on the bus.   Both vehicles had to be towed from the scene.

Bail has been set at $100,000 for a former Kewaskum School Resource Officer charged with beastiality in Fond du Lac County.   Steven Rosales of Campbellsport made his initial Fond du Lac Court  appearance Wednesday on three counts of beastiality.  He is accused of having sexual contact  with a pet female Golden Retriever dog.   A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 31.   Rosales is also charged in Washington County with sexual misconduct by a school […]

A Taycheeda women's prison inmate charged with killing her cellmate has pleaded not guilty to first-degree intentional homicide.   Twenty-eight year old Taylor Sanchez, an inmate at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution, entered the plea Tuesday during her arraignment in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court in the death of Cindy Schulz-Juedes. The 68-year-old Schulz-Juedes was beaten to death on July 19, 2023, in the cell that she shared with Sanchez. Sanchez […]

The highway construction season is underway and several major projects are on the schedule for Fond du Lac County.   Highway commissioner Tom Janke says one of the big projects this year involves the reconstruction of County Highway N from Highway RP east to Highway 45.  Other projects include Highways QQ, F, and  Highway W from the Washington County line to Campbellsport.  Janke says work is also slated for portions of Highways  T,  […]

The Wisconsin Citizens Utility Board thinks an $800 million rate increase request from We Energies and Wisconsin  Public Service Corporation is too high.   The utilities filed rate cases this month with the PSC for customers in eastern and northern Wisconsin.  CUB executive director Tom Content tells WFDL news it appears that We Energies want to make money on new solar and natural gas plants and keep profiting on coal plants long after […]

There was little change in the local unemployment rate last month.  The city of Fond du Lac's unemployment rate increased a tenth of a percent to 3.3 percent in March.   The jobless rate was 2.9 percent in Fond du Lac County, up from 2.7 percent in February.  The Dodge County unemployment rate was down a tenth of a percent to three percent.

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers announced today, as the state and country celebrate Earth Week, that the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin (PSC) awarded $7.8 million from the Energy Innovation Grant Program (EIGP) to 28 projects that will expand access to clean energy and invest in the adoption of innovative technologies and processes. Since the program’s inception in 2017, the PSC has awarded $40 million to 169 EIGP projects statewide.  “I’ve always said that we don’t have to […]