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The Fond du lac city council plans to hire a consultant to develop a master plan for potential development at Lakeside Park.  Council president LeeAnn Lorrigan says the council supports spending up to $20,000 to hire a firm who would ‘develop the plan based on the more than two dozen recommendations made by the Lakeside Park Exploratory committee.  Lorrigan says the cost of Implementing some of the recommendations may end […]

GREENFIELD, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says the proper response to the on-air shootings in Virginia is "more sophisticated and challenging" than the gun control measures Hillary Rodham Clinton has proposed.  Clinton said Wednesday outside of Des Moines that if guns weren't so readily available, perhaps carnage like the killings of WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward by a disgruntled former employee could be prevented. […]

HANCOCK, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say the pilot of a crop-dusting plane has died after crashing near Hancock in central Wisconsin.  Waushara County Sheriff Jeff Nett says the plane went down Wednesday in a wooded area while spraying a potato farm. Nett says the pilot was the only person in the single-engine plane.   The Federal Aviation Administration was at the crash site Thursday.

TOMAH, Wis. (AP) — The troubled Tomah Veterans Administration Medical Center says it will make several changes to address staffing shortages.  The VA announced Wednesday that the hospital's 11-bed inpatient psychiatric unit had stopped admitting new patients and will temporarily close next week. VA spokesman Matthew Gowan said the two patients who are currently in the unit likely will be discharged before the Sept. 4 closure.  Any local veteran requiring […]

Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue (FDLFR) is now an internationally accredited agency.  Several senior FDLFR staff members along with City Manager Joe Moore went before the Commission on Fire Accreditation International Thursday morning in Atlanta  to seek agency accreditation.  The commission voted unanimously to grant accredited status to FDLFR.  "I am so proud of our entire organization and extremely happy for the community of Fond du Lac," said Fire/Rescue Chief Peter […]

Ripon's annual tribute to all things cookies will take place once again.  The Cookie Daze committee will continue on with the festival in 2016, which will mark the 21st consecutive year of the event.  Ripon Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jason Mansmith says the community showed a clear want and desire for the festival and multiple business and organizations have made commitments to ensure Cookie Daze will continue.  Skepticism surrounding […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that damaged a garage in Fond du Lac.  Firefighters were called to 1229 Wedgewood Lane early this morning.  A neighbor spotted the fire and extinguished it before firefighters arrived.  Careless use of smoking materials is apparently to blame.

The chairman of the Fond du Lac Lakeside Park exploratory committee says he wants the city to develop a long-range master plan for the park using the committee’s recommendations.  Two months after making his initial presentation with a list of more than two dozen recommendations, committee chair John Short was before the city council again Wednesday night with an executive summary.  "We always thought about this as a long range […]

A local parks group is thanking Winnebago Lutheran Academy for listening to the public, city officials say they are saddened a proposed lease agreement is no longer on the table.  WLA announced this week they are no longer negotiating with the city on a lease that would have allowed the school to build ball diamonds and expand a parking lot on a portion of McDermott Park.  Public Works Director Jordan […]