Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue is partnering with Fond du Lac Firefighters Local 400 in offering Child Identification Kits to all students, K-12. The kits are available for all students throughout Fond du Lac County including all homeschooled children. The kits are for you to keep and no other person or agency will have access to your child’s personal information. We ask that you complete the kits as soon as you […]
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a student hit by a school bus in Manitowoc is in a medically induced coma. Fifteen-year-old Jacklynn Gienke was hit while walking to Wilson Junior High School about 7 a.m. Thursday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report shows the state fund that insures local government property finished the last fiscal year in the red. The Legislative Audit Bureau's review Friday found the fund's financial position has deteriorated since the state insurance commissioner's office issued a $12 million dividend in fiscal year 2009-2010. As of June 30, 2014, the fund had a $703,000 deficit.
The Fond du Lac city council will discuss what to do about a vacancy on council when they meet next week. Brian Foster stepped down effective at the end of the last council meeting earlier this month. The council can decide whether to accept applications and fill the vacancy or leave the position open until the April election next year. In the past the council has appointed someone to fill […]
A ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony was held this week for a new Campbellsport business. Swenson Tool & Die has relocated from Kewaskum to 283 Industrial Parkway in the Campbellsport Business Park. Fond du lac County Economic Development Corporation president, Steve Jenkins says the company made the move after receiving funding from the county’s Community Development Block Grant Program as well as the Fond du Lac County’s Small Business […]
A former convent in Campbellsport will be taken down sometime after the first of the year. St. Joseph Convent has been vacant for almost a year and is in disrepair. It was the home to the School Sisters of St. Francis. A spokesman says efforts to sell the brick building were not successful and the structure will be razed probably in February. A rummage sale was held last weekend. St. […]
Marian University, in collaboration with several area non-profit organizations, will be hosting a “Giving Tuesday” donation event on Tuesday, December 1 from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Marian University’s Center for Health Professions in downtown Fond du Lac. "Giving Tuesday, which occurs each year on the Tuesday following Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a nationwide philanthropic event dedicated to creating a platform for people to ‘give back’ to […]
Lakeshore Student Council recently conducted a food drive to collect items for local food pantries. This school-wide collection from the students and staff brought in over 1300 food items and filled over 30 large boxes with food. Pictured here packing the boxes are: Front row l to r - Addison Klemm (Gr. 2) and Christopher Jackson (Kindergarten); back row - Rachel Zimmerman (Gr. 5), Elijah Zimmerman (Gr. 3), Claire Braatz (Gr. 1), […]
A Mayville woman was killed and a Waupun woman injured in a two vehicle traffic accident Thursday morning n Dodge County. The crash happened on Highway 49 and at County Trunk Z. The Wisconsin State Patrol says a car driven by a 53 year old Mayville woman was stopped at the stop sign on Highway Z then pulled out into the path of a car driven by a 48 year […]