Month: May 2024

Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park is hosting a Computer Numerically Controlled (CNC) Field Day on May 15 from 5-7 p.m. at the West Bend Campus (T-101). This is an exploratory event for the College’s CNC/Tool and Die Technologies program allowing interested students, their families, incoming students and the public to learn more about the program. No RSVP is required.   Moraine Park’s CNC/Tool and Die Technologies two-year diploma prepares students for an […]

First grade students from all 24 first grade classes in the Fond du Lac School District visited Marian University on Tuesday, April 30, with their teachers and literacy coaches to celebrate reading and literacy. They participated in the READ-4-LIFE program organized by Fond du Lac Morning Rotary, Marian University, and the Fond du Lac School District, with assistance from Fond du Lac Noon Rotary.  The purpose of the program is […]

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. (AP) — A student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon, authorities said Saturday.  The state Department of Justice released few other details, three days after the shooting at Mount Horeb Middle School in Mount Horeb, 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Madison, the Wisconsin capital.  The student, whose name and age still have not […]

A Fond du Lac man was seriously injured with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound following a domestic incident over the weekend.  At approximately 10:30 p.m Saturday,  Fond du Lac Police received a 9-1-1 call for domestic violence occurring in the 400 block of Dewberry Drive.  The caller told dispatchers that a man was attempting to gain access to the residence through a back door and had a gun.  While officers were responding the caller […]

A Fond du Lac man received life-threatening injuries in a two vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened late Friday afternoon on Highway Q in the town of Taycheeda.  A  preliminary investigation shows a 34 year old Fond du Lac woman was westbound on Q and was turning into a driveway when she pulled into the path of an eastbound vehicle. The driver of the eastbound car,  a 77 year […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court announced Friday that it will decide whether mobile voting sites are legal without allowing any lower appellate courts to rule first.  The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm, sued in December 2022 on behalf of Racine County Republican Party Chair Ken Brown, alleging Racine city officials illegally used a voting van to collect absentee ballots that year. A circuit judge […]

Fond du Lac residents brought their binoculars to the Greenway Arboretum in Fond du Lac Saturday morning to check out migratory birds.  A bird walk was held Saturday morning at the arboretum located behind the West Pioneer Road Pick N Save grocery store.  Event organizer Laura DeGolier says the Bird Walk covered 1.25 miles led by birders Dave and Kerry Sehloff.    Birders also gathered in a woodland area at […]

Severe weather season has shifted into high gear as a volatile weather pattern fuels repeated rounds of damaging thunderstorms and tornadoes across the nation's midsection through May.  National Weather Service meteorologist Marcia Cronce tells WFDL news the strongest tornadoes typically strike this time of year.   Cronce says in the springtime the country is shifting from a winter pattern to the summer pattern,  when the most drastic weather conditions tend to come together.  Cronce […]

Starting this week you don't have to mow your lawn in the city of Fond du Lac this month.  The Fond du Lac city council approved a No or Low Mow May for this year after a pilot program last May.  Public Works director Paul DeVries says  No Mow May originated in the United Kingdom as a way to help boost the population of bees and other pollinators.