Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College held its annual General Education Development (GED) and High School Equivalency Diploma (HSED) graduation ceremony on May 23– celebrating an astounding 222 GED/HSED graduates for the 2023-24 school year. This year’s student speaker is Jessica Wichowski. Wichowski, a West Bend student, came to Moraine Park to earn her GED after years of navigating being a single parent and many life traumas. “I […]
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, this week, traveled across the state to celebrate National Travel and Tourism Week and highlight Wisconsin’s thriving tourism industry. This year’s National Travel and Tourism Week follows last year’s announcement of a record-breaking year for Wisconsin tourism in 2022. According to 2022 economic impact data, the tourism industry generated $23.7 billion in total economic impact, surpassing the previous record year of $22.2 billion set in 2019. “Here […]
Jamie Roen, an SSM Health certified hemodialysis technician serving at the Beaver Dam Dialysis Center, has been named the newest recipient of the BEE (Be Exceptional Everyday) Award. Roen was nominated by a colleague, who wrote: “Patients diagnosed with end stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis treatments have a very difficult ‘new’ lifestyle to adjust to. They come to a clinic three days a week for several hours each treatment for the […]
A Fond du Lac man convicted in a Fond du Lac fire bombing incident is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Anthony Nehls on Friday sentenced Elliot Schneider to 18 years in prison. Schneider was convicted of property damage by use of explosives, recklessly endangering safety and bail jumping. A co defendant Jonas Johnson was earlier convicted and is awaiting sentencing. Nobody was injured in the mailbox explosion and small fire near the […]
Four teenagers from the Madison area were killed in a pickup vs semi crash in Dodge County. The crash happened early Monday morning when a pickup failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of County Highway TT and state Highway 60 and was struck by a semi. The driver of the pickup, a 19 year old Sun Prairie man, and two male passengers, ages 16 and 17 from Sun Prairie and […]
An attempted homicide suspect from DePere was arrested following a high speed chase in Dodge County over the weekend. Saturday afternoon the Dodge County Sheriff's Office located the suspect vehicle on state Highway 26, who fled at speeds of 125 miles an hour, exiting at State Highway 16 eastbound near Watertown. The suspect exited the vehicle after going the wrong way on an off ramp and fled on foot. Thirty one […]
Two women were rescued after their kayaks capsized on the Rock River in Fond du Lac County over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend. Shortly before 7:30pm Saturday the Fond du Lac County dispatch center received a call from one of the women who said they were stuck in downed timber in the river and unable to free themselves in the swift current. A good Samaritan was in the water helping the women stay above […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee veterans park was adorned Friday with the last of more than 27,000 American flags for a Memorial Day weekend tribute to every Wisconsin resident who has died in service to their country from the Civil War onward. Volunteers finished planting the last of the 27,316 American flags for the sprawling “Field of Flags” during a Friday morning ceremony at Milwaukee's Veterans Park, just north of the […]
Fond du Lac residents lined downtown Main Street for the Memorial Day parade hosted by the Disabled American Veterans. The Parade and ceremony started at the corner of Rees and Main Streets, going south on Main Street ending at Veterans Park followed by the Memorial Day Ceremony.