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Residents and officials from the Mayville and Horicon School Districts filled the Mayville Middle School Auditorium Monday night to learn more about the financial and legal aspects of a potential consolidation of the two school districts at a joint meeting of the school boards.  Mike Clark from Robert W. Baird laid out fiscal projections for both districts and then compared that data with fiscal projections of a consolidated district.  Generally […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel says a Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to get hospital admitting privileges is unconstitutional.  A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued the decision Monday, upholding a federal judge in Madison who struck down the law in March.  Planned Parenthood and Affiliated Medical Services challenged the law in 2013, arguing it would force AMS' Milwaukee clinic to […]

There’s been a change at the top among the Republican presidential candidates in the latest Marquette University Law School poll.  The latest poll conducted right after the presidential debate in Milwaukee shows in Wisconsin Ben Carson leads with 22 percent followed by Donald Trump and Marco Rubio at 19 percent.  Poll director Charles Franklin says Hillary Rodham Clinton maintains the lead among the Democratic presidential candidates.  Meanwhile Franklin says its […]

The Fond du Lac School superintendent says he doesn’t see a need for a bill that would require data about crimes committed on school grounds to be more readily available for parents and others to view alongside test scores and graduation rates.  One bill calls for all public high schools, as well as those in the voucher and charter school programs to report crime data for inclusion in the state […]

The Fond du Lac city council will discuss what to do about a vacancy on council when they meet Tuesday night.  Brian Foster stepped down effective at the end of the last council meeting earlier this month. The council can decide whether to accept applications and fill the vacancy or leave the position open until the April election next year.  In the past the council has appointed someone to fill […]

Waupun residents will have an opportunity to comment on a proposed budget.  A public hearing on the budget is scheduled for Tuewsday.  Waupun Finance director, Jerad Oosterhouse says  newly created separate funds will help the city plan better for infrastructure improvements.  Oosterhouse says the proposed tax levy is up about $95,000.  Oosterhouse says one of the major street reconstruction projects in 2016 involves a portion of West Main Street.

A convicted child sex offender is moving to a new location in Fond du lac.  Christopher Hensler was released from prison in July after serving time  for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.    Fond du Lac police say Hensler will be moving to 186 East Johnson Street Tuesday.  Hensler must follow several rules including lifetime GPS monitoring, no contact with the victims, no unsupervised contact with minors and no alcohol or […]

Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue is partnering with Fond du Lac Firefighters Local 400 in offering Child Identification kits to all students, K-12.  The kits are available for all students throughout Fond du Lac County including all homeschooled children. The kit includes a fingerprint card, DNA collection swab and cut-out wallet card.  This National Child Identification Program is a community service project that was  developed to help law enforcement find the more […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials say an Alaska man is dead after his hunting companion apparently shot him.  Department of Natural Resources Warden Jon King says the 39-year-old Fairbanks man was deer hunting with a 35-year-old Wisconsin woman in Columbia County on Sunday.  King says the man apparently handed a loaded rifle up to the woman while she was in a tree stand. The woman had mittens on and […]