Month: June 2024

Lakeland University and Moraine Park Technical College will address the nursing workforce shortage by partnering to create a new educational pathway for future nurses that focuses on real-world experience.  Beginning this fall, students can simultaneously enroll in both schools on their way to earning an associate degree in nursing from Moraine Park Technical College and a bachelor of science in nursing from Lakeland in four years.  Along the way, students will supplement […]

WEST ALLIS, Wis. – June 14, 2024 – As the year-long 100th Anniversary Celebration of the iconic Cream Puff continues, the Wisconsin State Fair and Original Cream Puffs are thrilled to reveal even more delicious details of this stellar celebration at the Wisconsin State Fair, August 1 – 11 in West Allis.  So much has changed in the world in the last 100 years, but Fairgoers in Wisconsin can always count on the Original Cream Puff. Beginning in […]

A motorcycle vs deer crash sent a Fond du Lac County man to the hospital with serious injuries.  The crash happened shortly after 2am Sunday on southbound Interstate 41 near county highway OO.  A 56 year old South Byron man was flown by helicopter to Theda Care Regional  Medical Center in Neenah with serious injuries.  He was not wearing a helmet.

A Huber inmate walkaway from the Dodge County Jail is in custody.   Thirty two year old Cody Griswold had left jail around midnight Thursday in his vehicle for a medical appointment at the  Marshfield Medical Center in Beaver Dam but never arrived at the facility and  did not return to the jail.     The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says Griswold turned himself in about 5pm Friday.

Fond du Lac's largest employer is laying off hundreds of workers.  Mercury Marine has announced  it will cut nearly 300 jobs at its Fond du Lac  headquarters.  The company says the layoffs are due to a "softening of consumer demand" in certain markets.  The company employs more than 3,500 full-time workers in Fond du Lac.  Merc says the company has a $5 billion annual economic impact in  Fond du Lac County.

More staff assaults at the Waupun Correctional Institution.  Sources tell WFDL news there were three staff assaulted on second shift Thursday.  In one incident four staff members were involved in an altercation with an inmate and a civilian staff member received injuries.   The incidents come a day after a correctional officer was  treated at a hospital for head injuries after he was  attacked by an inmate in the prison's restricted housing unit Wednesday.

A Huber inmate walkaway from the Dodge County Jail is in custody.  Thirty two year old Cody Griswold had left jail around midnight Thursday in his vehicle for a medical appointment at the  Marshfield Medical Center in Beaver Dam but never arrived at the facility and  did not return to the jail.    The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says Griswold turned himself in about 5pm Friday.

Pioneer Road – Martin Avenue to CTH V Schedule: April 24 through September 28, 2024 Description: The WI Dept of Transportation, along with Fond du Lac County, and the City of Fond du Lac awarded this project to Vinton Construction. Construction includes common excavation, sanitary sewer, watermain, storm sewer, concrete sidewalk and curb & gutter, an asphalt pedestrian path and roadway, traffic signals,  roadway lighting, permanent signing, and other incidentals. […]

Hello Waupun! As you know, downtown Waupun has got it going on. You've seen construction work happening for the new food truck patio, and now you're seeing a new paint job, and a new mural on the side of the Stone and Suede building. That building came within weeks of being torn down, before it was purchased by the nice ladies who own Stone and Suede. You may remember how […]