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SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital leaders, as well as Beaver Dam community partners, celebrated construction now underway at 2100 Kellom Road in Beaver Dam, conveniently located off Highway 151.   The June 4 gathering at the new location featured brief remarks from SSM Health leaders and physicians, as well as a tree planting symbolizing the coming together of the two dialysis facilities with the combined soils and water from existing Beaver […]

To help cancer survivors reclaim their total health, the Fond du Lac Family YMCA offers a free, 12-week small group program that engages adult cancer survivors through an approach that focuses on the whole person. SSM Health supports “LIVESTRONG” through its community benefit program.  Called “LIVESTRONG” at the YMCA, participants of this evidence-based program work with YMCA staff to build muscle strength and endurance, increase flexibility, improve energy levels, reduce the […]

Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College celebrates its 2023-24 Welding Boot Camp graduates. In total, 20 students earned their certification this year– nine were recognized at the spring completion ceremony on Thursday, May 30 at the Fond du Lac Campus Conference Center.   The boot camp programs aim to address the skilled worker shortage through short-term skill development training. These boot camps are free for participants and focus on teaching skills […]

Photo caption: Kristy Hilt (second from left), RN, an SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital Home Infusion lead, has been awarded The DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award. She was recently joined by Nicole Gill, Emily Hoepfner, and Annette Kottke. Kristy Hilt, RN, an SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital Home Infusion lead, has been awarded The DAISY Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes nurses who have devoted their life's work to the compassionate […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prison warden was jailed Wednesday just hours before a scheduled news conference where officials planned to discuss the findings of investigations into multiple deaths at his facility.  Online jail records indicate that Waupun Correctional Institution Warden Randall Hepp was booked into the Dodge County Jail around 8:20 a.m. The records didn't offer further details on why he was jailed or what charges he might face. […]

A Fond du Lac woman has been convicted for providing alcohol to a juvenile that resulted in a fatal motor vehicle crash.   Sanju Paudel pleaded no contest to two counts of Providing Alcohol to a Minor  Resulting in Death.  According to a criminal complaint Paudel sold alcohol to a juvenile in January, 2023, that led to a fatal crash that killed two boys.  Two 16 year old boys were killed […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul filed felony forgery charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide who helped submit paperwork falsely saying that former President Donald Trump had won the battleground state in 2020.  The charges were filed against attorneys Kenneth Chesebro, 62, and Jim Troupis, 70, and former Trump aide Mike Roman, 51, who allegedly delivered Wisconsin’s fake elector paperwork to a Pennsylvania congressman’s staffer in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative University of Wisconsin regent who originally refused to step down even though his term was over has resigned, clearing the way for his successor named by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to take his spot.  Regent Bob Atwell notified university leaders Monday that he was resigning. Atwell was appointed in May 2017 by then-Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican. His term ended May 1 this year.  Atwell initially told […]

(Washington, D.C.) Today, Congressman Glenn Grothman’s (WI-06) bipartisan legislation to designate the U.S. Post Office located on Fremont Street in Kiel as the “Trooper Trevor J. Casper Post Office Building” passed through the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, the bill awaits consideration in the U.S. Senate.  Introduced in September 2023, Grothman led the entire Wisconsin Congressional delegation on this bill, which is comprised of Representatives Tom Tiffany (WI-07), Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), Derrick Van Orden […]