Work is into the home stretch on several majory highway projects in Fond du Lac County. Highway commissioner Tom Janke says crews are finishing up work this week on County Highway V from County Highway B to Reinhardt Road. Widening state Highway 23 to four lanes in Fond du Lac County is on schedule to be completed later this fall. Janke says several major reconstruction projects are now complete including Pioneer Road from Military […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Activist investor Ancora Holdings Group is pushing for the removal of both the chairman and the chief executive officer at Kohl’s for what it calls a botched strategy and dramatic sales declines. Ancora, which owns 2.5% of outstanding shares in the department store chain, has pressured the company over the past 18 months to turn things around and has been able to get three of its […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A prosecutor has charged a Wisconsin Department of Justice agent with reckless endangerment in the nonfatal shooting of an unarmed man during a Madison traffic stop last winter. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne charged DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation Special Agent Mark Wagner on Thursday with second-degree reckless endangerment using a dangerous weapon. The charge stems from the Feb. 3 shooting of Quadren Wilson, who […]
The Fond du Lac city council is beginning the process of reviewing a proposed 2023 budget that includes a decrease in the tax rate. The council held a budget workshop session Wednesday night. Council president Patrick Mullen says the biggest capital improvement item in the budget is what's called a bio-solids dryer at the wastewater treatment plant. Also in the budget are funds to build a bridge over the Fond du Lac River connecting […]
A Ripon woman has been charged with a drug overdose death. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says Carla Endeward is charged with First Degree Reckless Homicide for a fentanyl death that occurred in the City of Ripon on March 5, 2020. Endeward was also charged with additional drug related offenses. “Fentanyl is killing kids at record rates, destroying families, and destabilizing our communities," Toney said. "I have sat across from too […]
Two people were injured in a collision between a milk truck and FedEx truck in Dodge County that spilled thousands of gallons of milk across the highway. The crash happened shortly before 10am Thursday when the FedEx truck failed to yield the right of way at the intersection of County Highways P and N in the town of Rubicon. The vehicles collided and the milk truck tipped over spilling nearly six thousand gallons […]
A Fond du Lac County Rolling Meadows Golf Course ad hoc committee will hold it's first meeting next week. The committee, comprised of seven county board supervisors, was approved by the Fond du Lac County board at their last meeting . The committee was formed after the new county executive expressed concern that the golf course had been losing money for several years. Golf course manager David Brandenburg says he hopes the committee looks […]
Sharply rising cases of some sexually transmitted diseases are prompting U.S health officials to call for new prevention and treatment efforts. Infection rates for some STDs, including gonorrhea and syphilis, have been rising for years. But recently released statistics show that last year the rate of infectious syphilis reached its highest snce 1991 and the total number of cases rose 26% to hit its highest since 1948. Fond du Lac County Public Health […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As Election Day approaches, the fight over mail-in ballots is back. Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are crucial swing states that allow mail-in ballots but give local election offices very little if any time before Election Day to process them. Election workers’ inability to check signatures, addresses and get the mailed ballots ready for counting ahead of time means many of the those ballots may not be […]