Andy Land, 52, director of the Hospice and Palliative Care Services, at Agnesian Health Care, Fond du Lac, is on a mission to raise awareness and money for hospice education in Wisconsin and to get people’s attention—he is leaving March 25 to climb Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain. A relative paid the cost of the $40,000 epic journey so every dollar raised in the “Climbing for Hospice” campaign will […]
Rehearsals are under way for the Fond du Lac School District Choral Festival that will be held on Saturday, March 28. Over 1,000 choral students from the elementary, middle and high schools will perform at this bi-annual event being held at the Fond du Lac High School Acuity Fieldhouse at 4:00 p.m. (Doors open at 3:15 p.m.) The culminating activity will be the performance of all the students in a […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's proposal for funding public schools and doing away with a cap on enrollment for the statewide private school voucher program are on the agenda for the Legislature's budget committee. The Joint Finance Committee is in the second of three days of briefings Tuesday in which state agency heads discuss Walker's budget. State Superintendent Tony Evers was expected to testify about public education funding. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's budget committee plans to examine Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to cut funding for the popular SeniorCare prescription drug program. The Joint Finance Committee was scheduled to hold a briefing Tuesday on the Department of Health Services budget. The panel is in the middle of three days of state agency briefings on Walker's budget. Walker wants to require that SeniorCare enrollees first sign up for […]
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Opponents of right-to-work dominated hours of testimony in a Wisconsin state Assembly committee that's hearing the fast-tracked proposal. The Assembly Labor Committee hearing stretched into the night Monday, with union workers far outnumbering supporters. The Republican-backed measure would disallow private-sector businesses from entering into contracts with unions that require the paying of union dues. The hearing was scheduled to end at 8 p.m., but committee chairman […]
Chilton residents Dennis Brannon and Jody Kalinka are the lucky winners of the million dollar prize from the January 31st Powerball drawing. Their winning ticket matched the five regular numbers but not the Powerball. Brannon works at Fond du Lac’s Giddings and Lewis. Both say it hasn't had a chance to sink in yet. "We were just one of the lucky ones," Brannon said. A press conference was held Monday […]
Nearly 100 private and religious schools including St. Mary’s Springs and Winnebago Lutheran Academy in Fond du lac and Central Wisconsin Christian School in Waupun have applied to be a part of Wisconsin's voucher program next fall. The state Department of Public Instruction reported Monday that 98 schools applied by the deadline to be in the program where taxpayer-funded subsidies pay for students to attend private schools. That is up from 68 […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley says she has been fair, impartial and willing to make the tough decisions. Bradley is seeking a third, 10 year term on the court in the April 7th election. "If you look at my proven record you'll see that it is a record of applying the constitution, statutes that uphold individual rights, a record of making sure that government is open and accessible […]