U.S. suicides hit an all-time high last year. According to new government data about 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the United States, the highest number ever. Executive director of the Center for Suicide Awareness in Wisconsin Barb Bigalki says her first reaction is how can we do better. Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by higher rates ofdepression or limited […]
Have fun, tax your brain, do good at October 10 Scrabble Bee! Calling all sharp cookies, competitors, social animals and good-deed-doers. It's Scrabble, with a twist. Teams of up to four players will work together in two rounds - one 20 minute, and one 15 minute. For the first game, all tiles are given to the team and they make as many words as they can in 20 minutes, but to […]
The Fond du Lac County Board has rejected a resolution to use sales tax revenue to help fund three housing projects in the village of Campbellsport. County executive Sam Kaufman says the county was proposing sales tax funds in 2023 and 2024 totaling $950,000 for the projects. Kaufman says the hope was the projects would help address a housing shortage in the county. The projects included an additional 94 housing […]
The new Cardinal stadium is officially open. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Tuesday evening. Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says fundraising for the stadium project is completed. Dr. Fleig says the artificial turf field is named National Exchange Bank Field due to their donation of $500,000. The new stadium is named Cardinal Stadium until 2048. Meanwhile, the District has also unveiled it's new branding initiative.
Nobody was injured in a fire that heavily damaged a Fond du Lac home. Shortly before 7pm Tuesday firefighters were called to the scene at 129 West Scott Street and quickly knocked down the fire. Nobody was home but two pets died. The cause of the fire is under investigation and the Red Cross is assisting the family.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block a northern Wisconsin tribe from barricading roads on its reservation. U.S. District Judge William Conley says the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has sovereign rights over reservation roadways that have been the subject of a heated dispute between the tribe and non-tribal land owners with businesses and homes on reservation land. The land […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Joe Biden stopped in the battleground state of Wisconsin to discuss how economic policies he calls “Bidenomics” are boosting the economy. The Tuesday trip is timed one day before the first anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act, a major economic bill Biden signed into law. Biden's visit to a state he narrowly won in 2020 also comes a week before Republicans descend on Milwaukee for the […]
The Fond du Lac School District is implementing a new employee wellness program. Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says LeapCare is an employee emotional well-being program. Under the program a Care coach provides emotional care to the 850 employees of the Fond du Lac School District. Dr. Fleig says the hope is that LeapCare will lead to higher levels of employee wellness.
A jury trial has been scheduled for next spring to determine whether the so-called Halloween Killer, Gerald Turner, should be released or remain in custody. Following a hearing this month a four day jury trial was scheduled to begin April 16th, 2024. The 73 year old Turner was convicted of killing nine year old Lisa Ann French while she was trick or treating in Fond du Lac on Halloween, 1973. Turner was initially scheduled for […]