One person was killed and three people were injured in a two vehicle accident in Dodge County. The accident happened at 8:30pm Wednesday on Highway 60 at Highway 26 near Clyman. According to the State Patrol a vehicle driven by a 62 year old Beaver Dam man collided with a vehicle driven by a 25 year old Allenton woman. A 24 year old male passenger in the second vehicle was […]
The Fond du Lac County Board has approved using sales tax revenue for local economic development. After meeting in closed session this week the board voted in favor of appropriating $50,000 in county sales tax revenue to the Fond du Lac County Economic Development Corporation Revolving Loan Fund. County executive Al Buechel says since the sales tax was passed the county has put more than $2.3 million in the loan […]
The Fond du Lac Lakeside Park exploratory committee has selected a facilitator. Committee Chair John Short says UW extension agent Diana Tscheschlock has agreed to act as a facilitator for the group. "We're very pleased that she agreed to do that," Short told WFDL news. "She has experience in that area, she is an MSW social worker, a community natural resource economic development educator for county extension." Tscheschlock’s first question […]
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network says a new poll shows an overwhelming majority of Wisconsin residents favor a half hour of daily physical education in school. The poll found more than 88 percent of Wisconsin voters favor increasing the physical education requirement in schools. Cancer Action Network government relations director Sarah Sahli says the network hopes a bill will be reintroduced in the next session of the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wants to ask wolf hunters and trappers to help the agency gather more information about wounds the animals have suffered. According to DNR documents, the agency wants to ask hunters and trappers to register their kills before skinning them. A federal wildlife specialist would observe the skinning and collect data about trauma the animal has suffered. Animal rights advocates have […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration announced a new 5-year plan for the Great Lakes on Wednesday that will accelerate efforts to address toxic pollution, invasive species and farm runoff and restore plant and wildlife habitat. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy released the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's action plan at a meeting of Great Lakes mayors in Chicago, saying it is a roadmap for federal agencies to target […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce says it will hold a wedding expo for same-sex couples in anticipation of gay marriage becoming legal in Wisconsin. A federal judge declared Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in a June decision upheld by a federal appeals court this month. State attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. LGBT Chamber Executive Director Jason Rae says couples […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Unemployment fell in every Wisconsin city and county last month. The state Department of Workforce Development reports today that unemployment dropped in all of the 32 largest cities and in all 72 counties in August compared with July. The state's overall unemployment rate in July was 5.6 percent, the lowest it's been since 2008.
The local unemployment rate is down in the latest reporting period. The city Fond du Lac’s unemployment rate in August stands at 5.9 percent, down from 6.7 percent in July. In Fond du Lac County the jobless rate dropped six-tenths of a percent to 4.9 percent in August. In Dodge County the August unemployment rate stands at 5.4 percent…down from six percent the month before.