Month: January 2025

MADISON – Nearly two dozen Wisconsin manufacturers have been selected as finalists for the 36th Annual Manufacturer of the Year (MOTY) Awards.   The MOTY program, sponsored by Baker Tilly, Michael Best & Fredrich LLP, and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), recognizes the state’s top manufacturers of all sectors and sizes for innovations, philanthropy, technological advances, commitment to customer satisfaction and the quality jobs they create.  The program highlights manufacturing as the […]

Hello Waupun! The new Hoya Hop Brew Bub opens today (Saturday)  1/11, from noon to 10 pm, and Sunday, 1/12, from noon to 6 pm.  Regular hours will be announced coming out of this weekend. If you get a chance, I’d encourage you to stop in and offer congratulations to Matt and Michelle Brown, Jarrett Mack, and Kaitlyn and Jesse Huizenga, and welcome them to Downtown Waupun! Also happening this Sunday to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) —A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed her sixth grade classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man will be released from a psychiatric hospital, a judge ordered Thursday after a trio of experts testified that she has made considerable progress battling mental illness.   Morgan Geyser has spent nearly seven years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. She has petitioned Waukesha County Circuit […]

As the "quit season" gets underway the Wisconsin Department of Health Services says the New Year is a great time to quit smoking.  The Wisconsin Quit Line is a free resource available to everyone in the state over the age of 13.  Fond du Lac County Commercial Tobacco Prevention and Treatment coordinator, Johanna Brotz, says people who call the Quit Line have access to one on one help with trained cessation experts.  Brotz […]

Norovirus outbreaks are on the rise in the United States this winter.  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention there have been more outbreaks reported by state health departments since the beginning of December since 2012.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the norovirus,  a stomach bug, is highly contagious, causing an average of 19 million illnesses, mostly in young children, annually in the country.  How […]

An ad hoc committee is recommending the Fond du Lac County Board consider a Fond du Lac County Justice facility...instead of just a new or expanded county jail.   County executive Sam Kaufman says the committee will make a presentation with the recommendation at the February  county board meeting.  "The county board will have to make a decision.   Do they want a full justice sytsem?  Do they want to start off small with just […]

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers announced today he signed Executive Order #253 declaring an energy emergency in the state of Wisconsin. Due to persistent challenges caused by severe regional winter weather and its impact on the distribution of residential heating fuel, including heating oil and propane, Executive Order #253 will allow for the swift and efficient delivery of these products throughout the state.   “From coast to coast in the U.S., Winter Storm […]

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) awarded agencies in communities across the state more than $21 million from the state’s latest share of opioid settlement funds from October through December of 2025, the largest amount awarded in a quarterly period since Wisconsin began receiving funds in 2022 from the national litigation against pharmaceutical manufacturers, pharmaceutical distributors, and pharmacy chains. Grants awarded support projects designed to prevent non-medical use of […]

WEST ALLIS, Wis. – January 8, 2025 – Wisconsin State Fair officials are proud to introduce the 2025 Wisconsin Fairest of the Fairs, who was selected this evening at the annual Wisconsin Association of Fairs Convention in the Wisconsin Dells. A group of 33 outstanding county and district Fairest of the Fairs vied for this highly sought after role, and Megan Salentine, 21, representing the Kewaunee County Fair, was crowned just after 8pm.   The […]