The Dodge County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate two serious injury motorcycle crashes over the weekend. The Sheriff's Office says 45 year old Donald Rennhack from Brandon received a serious head injury when he was ejected from his motorcycle on a county highway in the town of Lowell Saturday afternoon. He was not wearing a helmet. About an hour and a half later 21 year old Hunter Frankenstien of Beaver Dam was […]
Inflation in the United States is slowing again after higher readings earlier this year. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell says we are getting back on a disinflationary path, but more such evidence would be needed before the Fed would cut interest rates. Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says he's a little bit disappointed Powell is still saying he is continuing to watch for data. "It looks to me that there's enough data […]
Doctors are trialling in hundreds of patients the world's first personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its game changing potential to permanently cure cancer. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Experts are testing new vaccines that are custom-built for each patient and tell their body to hunt down cancer […]
A Fond du Lac St. Mary's Springs Academy junior who is legally blind has been crowned "United States of America's (USOA) Teen 2024." Havah Fleisner was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a rare genetic eye disease that attacks the part of the retina needed for sharp, central vision. Havah's mother, Tracy Welak, says initially doctors didn't give her daughter, and two younger children who also have the disease, […]
“A Night at the Theatre” is the theme for the Fond du Lac Symphonic Band’s second Buttermilk Festival concert on Wednesday, July 10. The performance will begin at 7:15 p.m. at the Wifler Performance Center in Buttermilk Creek Park, under the direction of Music Director Evan Chancellor. The program will feature vocalist Jess Schrage singing I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables and Non So Piu from the opera “The Marriage […]
Hello Waupun! I've had a couple issues that have bubbled up from the community regarding dogs and chickens. First dogs. A couple weeks ago Waupun had an incident of a dog that left its owner's property and attacked a dog that was being walked. The dog that was being walked suffered injuries and needed vet care. This is unacceptable, and the owner of the attacking dog was ticketed, and paid […]
Two people were seriously injured in separate motorcycle crashes in Dodge County over the weekend. Shortly after 3pm Saturday a 45 year old Brandon man was transported to a hospital with serious head injuries when he failed to negotiate a curve and was ejected from the motorcycle. He was not wearing a helmet. About an hour and a half later a 19 year old Beaver Dam man was flown by helicopter to a hospital […]
A Fond du Lac man is in custody following a high speed chase that ended in Washington County. The chase started shortly before 10:30 pm Friday when a sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle that ran a stop sign on Highway B near Interstate 41. The vehicle fled south at a high rate of speed and eventually crashed in a ditch near Slinger. A passenger tried to flee on foot but was […]
MANAWA, Wis. (AP) — People living downriver of a Wisconsin dam that was breached by floodwaters have been allowed back into their homes following an evacuation order and many of them now face the mess of cleaning up flooded basements, police said Saturday. The dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached Friday afternoon by rain-driven floodwaters that eroded an estimated 50-foot-wide (15.2-meter-wide) portion of the dam, said Manawa […]