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The Fond du Lac County Employees’ United Way Committee is sponsoring a Vendor Fair and Cookout on Tuesday, September 22nd at the City/County Government Center.  The Vendor Fair is scheduled from 10:00 am until 2:30 pm and will feature 12 vendors:  Celebrating Home, Handmade greeting cards, It Works, Mary Kay, Norwex, Pampered Chef, Paparazzi jewelry, Perfectly Posh, Scentsy, Tastefully Simple, Thirty-one and Tupperware.  The cookout is scheduled from 11:00 am […]

A proposed Fond du Lac city budget includes a slight increase in the tax rate.  The budget released Tuesday includes a 2.5 percent increase in the tax rate.  The property tax levy is up 4.6 percent from $22.8 million to $23.9 million.  City manager Joe Moore says the increase is driven primarily by an increasing debt payment and a nearly 1.5% increase in net new construction.  The budget also includes […]

Fond du Lac Baseball Inc. says it will leave the Youth Baseball Complex intact and hopes FDL Youth Baseball will use the 4th Street diamonds next summer.  Earlier this year the Fond du Lac School Board voted not to renew the District’s lease with Baseball Inc. regarding use of the diamonds.   Baseball Inc. says August 25th was the date by which Baseball Inc. was to remove all personal property from […]

North Fond du Lac is one of four communities across Wisconsin that will, for the first time, have access to new after-school activities.  North Fond du Lac is among 22 school districts sharing $1.6 million in 21st Century Community Learning Center funds for this school year.  Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says the program will  provide tutoring and mentoring, homework help, academic enrichment, community service along with music, arts, sports and cultural […]

Fond du Lac police are still looking for a suspect in the armed robbery of a local motel.  Police chief Bill Lamb says the Microtel Motel on South Military Road was robbed at gunpoint Sunday afternoon.  Police say a man robbed the motel clerk at gunpoint and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash.  The suspect is described as a white male (possibly in his twenties), thin build, […]

A reward is being offered for the return of a sculpture stolen from the grave of a six year old girl.  Fond du Lac resident James Last is offering a $100 reward for the return of the butterfly sculpture stolen from Tiffany Last’s grave in a cemetery near Dundee.  She died in December 2006.  Last says the sculpture was handmade by Last’s father, Jeremy Krahn, because his daughter loved butterflies.  […]

Marijuana is still illegal in Wisconsin, but cities across the state slowly have been relaxing penalties against people caught with small amounts of the drug.  Nine of the state's 10 largest cities  have decriminalized simple possession. Madison and Milwaukee were among the first cities in Wisconsin to reform their ordinances on marijuana.  Fond du Lac police chief Bill Lamb says first offense simple marijuana possession in Fond du Lac has […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker denies he's a career politician — even though he's been in elected office since he was 25 years old.  The 47-year-old Republican presidential candidate says in an interview with CNBC that he believes a career politician is "somebody who's been in Congress for 25 years."  Walker's been in politics for most of his adult life — about 25 years when counting his […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The director of the state elections board says it's unrealistic to think his staffers don't have personal political views but they don't make decisions.  Government Accountability Board Director Kevin Kennedy told reporters Tuesday that his employees are human and vote. But he and board members make the decisions and he works hard to ensure his workers' views don't influence those calls. Kennedy made the remarks as […]