Waupun city officials hope a food truck plaza will be another reason for visitors to to explore downtown Waupun. Waupun major Rohn Bishop says the city will use a $45,000 Vibrant Spaces grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation to create a Food Truck Plaza in an underused space on East Main Street in the downtown. Bishop says initial reaction to the idea is positive. Communities that applied for the grant […]
Wisconsin Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action for university admissions is long overdue. Grothman says by judging Americans based on skin color rather than character, affirmative action is racist. Grothman says as a result the most qualified individuals will once again be rewarded based on merit. Critics say ending affirmative action means selective colleges will become less diverse. They argue affirmative action […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a Wisconsin school district from requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that match the sex they were assigned at birth. The Mukwonago Area School District passed the policy last month. U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman blocked it on Thursday pending a legal challenge. The judge said it has caused harm to the 11-year-old transgender student who anonymously sued […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Rebecca Cooke, a former small business owner and past member of the state’s economic development board, is running for Congress in a battleground western Wisconsin district. The 35-year-old Cooke announced Monday that she is running for a chance to take on first term Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden, a staunch ally of former President Donald Trump. Democrats are targeting the seat in their effort to […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that significantly damaged a vacant building in downtown Fond du Lac. The building, a former barber shop, is located near the corner of 6th and South Main Streets. Fond du Lac Fire Chief Erik Gerritson says firefighters got the call shortly after 3:30pm Sunday. Gerritson says the fire started in a dumpster next to the building.
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office is asking the public for help in the search for a Manitowac man involved in a high speed chase. Friday morning a sheriff's deputy attempted to pull over a speeding vehicle on state Highway 49 near Brandon Road. The vehicle sped away, and later crashed into a utility pole in the village of Brandon where the driver fled on foot. A five hour long […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to repeal Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban can continue. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling had nullified the ban but the court's decision last year to overturn that landmark ruling reactivated it. The state's Democratic attorney general, Josh Kaul, filed a lawsuit arguing that the ban is too old to enforce and that a 1985 […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Income taxes in Wisconsin will go down an average of $3 a month under the greatly reduced tax cut Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed into law after rejecting a much larger cut that Republicans wanted. That is according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau released on Friday. The average tax cut under the income tax cut as signed by Evers on Wednesday is […]
Beginning Friday, July 7, eastbound traffic on Western Avenue between Macy Street and Main Street in Fond du Lac will be restricted to southbound and straight traffic only. Left turns from eastbound Western Ave to Main Street will be prohibited. The restrictions will be in place through Friday, July 14. The restrictions are due to a private contractor completing roof repairs at 210 S Main St/6 Western Avenue.