Grab your hats, gloves, coats, and boots as the winter weather season is fast approaching! During this transitional time of year,The City of Fond du Lac Police Department and the Department of Public Works is taking this opportunity to remind the members of the community that the WINTER PARKING RESTRICTIONS go into effect on November 15th. Parking from November 15th to March 15th is restricted between the hours of 8:00 […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A 40-foot balsam fir from a Rhinelander farm will be the Wisconsin Capitol Christmas tree this year. Governor Scott Walker says the tree is being donated by Brad and Elizabeth Kowieski of Rhinelander. Walker's office says Brad Kowieski planted the tree on Arbor Day in 1985 at his parents' house. The tree is typically on display after Thanksgiving until the New Year.
Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a special off road truck used to haul logs at Mauthe Lake State Park. Kewaskum fire chief Mark Groeschel told WFDL news firefighters were called to the scene Wednesday near the park entrance. Groeschel says the eight wheel truck and crane was fully engulfed in flames by the time firefighters arrived. The truck, valued in excess of $100,000 is a total loss.
A water main break has forced the Fond du Lac Forest Mall to close Thursday. Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says the incident was reported shortly after 7am. O’Leary says there is standing water in the mall from the center court east to Younkers Department store. " It was good when it was found because they had remediation companies cleaning up water," O'Leary told WFDL news. "It was just a little […]
Fond du Lac police say reports of an armed man possibly on the Marian University campus Thursday morning are untrue. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police were investigating a report of a suspicious person outside the English Meadows apartments near the university but were unable to locate anyone. Klein says a bit of a panic was created when Marian officials sent a text alert warning that police were looking […]
A Madison man accused of firing a gun from his vehicle at another vehicle in Fox Lake has pleaded not guilty to charges against him. 21 year old Anthony McCaskill Jr. entered the plea this week in Dodge County Circuit Court. He's charged with discharging a firearm towards a person, endangering safety/reckless use of a firearm, and carrying a concealed weapon. The incident allegedly unfolded September 13th after McCaskill and […]
Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweetners that boils down to a mix of science, semantics and marketing. Jurors in the case between sugar processors and corn manufacturers will take up one of nutrition’s most vexing debates and confront a choice common among consumers: sugar or high fructose corn syrup. The federal court trial grew out of efforts by […]
Republican state senator Rick Gudex of Fond du Lac says he supports a compromise bill that would keep two retired judges on a new ethics commission. Republicans met privately Tuesday to reach a compromise on the bill doing away with the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, which is currently comprised of retired judges. Senator Gudex says he supports including two retired judges on the ethics commission. Gudex says he also supports […]
TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A nonprofit organization is aiming to open Wisconsin's first monkey sanctuary in Marquette County in another year or two. Primates Incorporated received a recent $50,000 donation to help open a home for retired research monkeys near Westfield. The organization owns 17 acres in the Town of Springfield where the monkeys would live in indoor-outdoor structures. The Portage Daily Register says Amy Kerwin founded Primates […]