The Fond du Lac School District (FDL-SD) has announced the Fondy CARES (Community Access Responding and Empowering Students) program will be hosting a School-Based Mental Health Kick Off event on Wednesday, August 16, starting at 8am. The School-Based Mental Health Kick Off event allows FDL-SD to welcome our partnering agencies along with their therapists in addition to community partners and supporters. FDL-SD families are welcome to join us in supporting […]
The Kids from Wisconsin will return to Fond du Lac for their 28th annual free appearance at Buttermilk Creek Park on Wednesday, August 16, at 7:15 p.m. The Lighthouse Big Band and the Fond du Lac Area Children’s Chorale will entertain prior to the Kids' performance, beginning at 6:00 p.m. This year the Kids from Wisconsin are rolling out the red carpet with the theme “Starstruck.” The high-powered two-hour Broadway-style production […]
FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Flash flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible. Rainfall amounts of 2 to 4 inches are expected, with locally higher amounts possible. * WHERE...Portions of east central, south central, and southeast Wisconsin, including the following counties, in east central Wisconsin, Fond du Lac and Sheboygan. In south central Wisconsin, Dane and Rock. In southeast […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — If Wisconsin state Rep. Jimmy Anderson wants to visit residents in some of the northern neighborhoods he represents, he first must leave his own district — twice. From his Fitchburg home in suburban Madison, Anderson must exit his 47th Assembly District, pass through the 77th District, reenter the 47th District, then head north through the 48th District to finally reach a cluster of homes assigned like […]
A Markesan man was critically injured when he was struck by a car in Dodge County. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says shortly before 9pm Friday 48 year old Kenneth Clavey of Markesan was walking in the northbound lane of Dodge County Highway A just south of Highway AW when he was struck by a car driven by 67 year old Susan Boelter of Randolph. Clavey was transported to Waupun Memorial Hospital with […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that damaged a Fond du Lac restaurant. Shortly before 6:30pm Friday firefighters were called to a report of smoke in the basement and smoke detectors sounding at Boda’s Restaurant on East Pioneer Road. The fire had self-extinguished in a closed mechanical room by the time firefighters arrived. Nobody was in the building at the time. A neighbor was outside the building watering flowers heard the smoke detectors sounding and quickly […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to make a visit to Milwaukee on Tuesday, just a week before Republican presidential hopefuls will be in the city for the first debate of the 2024 cycle. The White House announced on Friday that Biden will “deliver remarks on how Bidenomics is Investing in America to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down.” […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a drowning in a campground swimming pond near Eden. Sheriff's Chief Deputy Kevin Galske says 29 year old Paul Becker of Fond du Lac was on a day trip at the Breezy Hill campground Thursday with a group from The Arc of Fond du Lac when the incident occured. Galske says Becker was snorkeling when he went under an inflatable […]
A Fond du Lac man wanted on an arrest warrant for illegal drugs was arrested in downtown Fond du Lac. Shortly after 9:30am Friday the man was spotted by police riding a bicycle on South Main Street just north of Western Avenue. Several squad cars blocked off a portion of South Main Street and the suspect was taken into custody.