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MADISON, Wis. (AP) €” Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has chosen the Assembly Republicans who will serve on the Legislature's powerful Joint Finance Committee.  Vos announced Wednesday that Rep. John Nygren will return as co-chairman. Reps. Dale Kooyenga and Dean Knudson also will return to the panel. Reps. Amy Loudenbeck, Michael Schraa and Mary Czaja  will replace three GOP committee members who decided to retire from the Legislature.  Twelve members […]

Kyle Miller from Omro shot this 18-pt buck on Sunday morning south of Mount Horeb. He's been hunting for 20 years and the largest deer he'd harvested previously was an 8-pt. Excitement was high throughout the state Saturday and Sunday, and 90,281 deer were registered in Wisconsin during the opening weekend of the nine-day deer season. This number is based on preliminary call-in numbers collected from registration stations by Wisconsin […]

The Fond du Lac School District  recognized Linda Bastian and the Fondy Food Pantry as the 2014-15 Friend of Education award recipients at the November 24 Board of Education meeting. Pictured here are: Marian Sheridan, FDLSD School Health, Safety, Attendance & Transportation Coordinator; Sarah Zimmerman, Fondy Food Pantry President; Linda Bastian, Fondy Food Pantry volunteer and Food for Thought Coordinator; Elizabeth Hayes, Board of Education President; Terry Hansen-Beno, Pantry/Volunteer Coordinator; […]

Relocation of Marian University’s School of Nursing to downtown Fond du lac is a step closer to reality.  The Fond du lac city council Tuesday night approved a resolution to declare the downtown A.C. Nielson building a blighted property  and $4.2 million in redevelopment revenue bonds to purchase and rehabilitate the property.  Community Development director Dyann Benson says the property qualifies as blighted because the building has been unused or […]

The Fond du Lac city council has approved a five year Parks and Recreation plan.  Community Development Director Dyann Benson says the plan calls for developing three new parks over the next few years.  "The South Park area, Hunters Grove and Meadowlands Park and those are three parks that will be serving some neighborhoods that are in need of some recreation and open space,"  Benson told WFDL news.  Benson says the […]

The Fond du Lac city council has approved the annexation of property for residential development. Community development director Dyann Benson says the two acre parcel of land in the town of Fond du Lac is owned by Revest at W5149 Rienzi Road.  Initiator of the petition is Jeffrey Berenz on behalf of Revest. Benson said the property is located within a City Growth Area under an intergovernmental  agreement with the […]

The Waupun deputy police chief says it appears a  grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson Missouri shows the jury believed the physical evidence in the case outweighed the sometimes conflicting eyewitness accounts of what happened.    The community erupted into unrest after the decision was announced.  Waupun deputy police chief Scott Louden there's a process in place […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — About 50 students rallied on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, officer who killed a black 18-year-old.  Organized by student organizations and Milwaukee County Supervisor David Bowen, they started by standing silently with signs like, "We are Michael Brown," the teen killed in Missouri. They then chanted "Hands up, Don't Shoot" -- a refrain that […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Scores of protesters angry over a grand jury's refusal to issue an indictment in Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, and plans for a new Dane County jail are filling downtown Madison's streets.  The crowd marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the jail Tuesday afternoon, chanting "Hands up, don't shoot" and carrying a banner that read "stop racist police violence." They used Brown's death […]