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Proceeds from this year’s Love Lights, presented by the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation, will help support the SSM Health Treffert Studios set to open later this year.    The Treffert Studios is an innovative 8,500-square-foot facility, housing a large variety of creative tools and innovative technology (video/film equipment, music instruments, art supplies, etc.).    In partnership with Moraine Park Technical College (MPTC), the Treffert Studios will utilize The Treffert Approach™️ by helping young […]

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection has identified cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in backyard flocks in Marathon and Waukesha counties. Birds at both sites have been depopulated to prevent spread of the disease.  This year, 18 Wisconsin counties, including Fond  du Lac County,  have been confirmed with bird flu in domestic birds. Flock owners are encouraged to continue practicing strong biosecurity measures to protect their birds from the virus. […]

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a 9-year-old Wisconsin elementary school student may have saved the life of one of her classmates by peforming the Heimlich maneuver on her as she choked during lunch. Fourth grader Essie Collier noticed Tuesday that a classmate was in distress and holding her neck during lunchtime. The girl says she rushed to the student. Teacher Samantha Bradshaw says Essie wrapped her arms around the […]

14 th Street Reconstruction Schedule: May 31 through October Description: The project includes gas main and service relocations, reconstruction of sanitary sewer and laterals, storm sewer and laterals, water main and laterals, roadway, sidewalk and approaches, street lighting and restoration/landscaping. November 14 to November 18: Contractor is planning on hydromulching all topsoiled areas in order to meet DNR requirements for winter shutdown. Traffic Impacts: 14 th Street is closed to […]

Fond du Lac police investigators believe a suspect arrested for the theft of firearms and ammunition from Fleet Farm planned to sell the guns for drugs.  Twenty nine year old Elihu Espinoza is charged with five counts of felon in possession of a firearm, burglary, and criminal damage to property.  Bail was set at $25,000 cash.  The Fond du Lac man was arrested following a traffic stop last week.  Police Chief Aaron Goldstein […]

SPRING VALLEY, Wis. (AP) — A nurse in Wisconsin has been accused of amputating a hospice patient's foot without his consent and without doctor's orders. Elder abuse charges filed last week say 38-year-old Mary Brown, of Durand, told colleagues she wanted to display it at her family's taxidermy shop. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the man had dead tissue in his foot from frostbite. He was at Spring Valley Health […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials have released their first new wolf management plan in almost a quarter-century but it doesn't establish any statewide population goals. The Department of Natural Resources adopted a plan in 1999 that called for capping the statewide wolf population at 350 animals. Wolf hunters have long used that number to justify generous harvest quotas. The draft plan the DNR released Thursday does not include […]

Area school officials are preparing for the next steps following passage of referendums this week.   Voters approved operations referendums in Ripon, Waupun and North Fond du Lac school districts.  In the North Fond du Lac School District voters also approved a major building referendum for renovations and expansion and Bessie Allen Middle School and Horace Mann High School.  "It says so much about our community,"  superintendent Dr. Matt Mineau told WFDL news.  Mineau […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Circumstances surrounding Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy’s return to Lambeau Field to face his former team are quite a bit different than anticipated. This initially shaped up as a midseason confrontation between two teams with major expectations after reaching the playoffs a year earlier. Only the Cowboys have held up their end of the bargain. The Packers have dropped five straight games for the first […]