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Chicago-based  Conagra Brands  plans to close its Birds Eye plant in Beaver Dam.   Birds Eye is a frozen foods brand.  Conagra director of human resources Christina Keiser says the company decided to close the Beaver Dam facility “to improve efficiencies and effectiveness within its supply chain network.”   The plant closure will put 252 nonunion employees out of work, including 227 production and  production support employees and 25 management and administrative employees.  Production at the […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Another day, another set of milestone accomplishments from Major League Baseball’s rookie class of Jacksons.  San Diego’s Jackson Merrill went 3 for 5 and drove in two runs and Milwaukee’s Jackson Chourio hit a two-run homer and scored twice in the Padres’ 7-3 victory over the Brewers on Monday night. Both players are just 20 years old, though Merrill turns 21 on Friday.  According to Sarah Langs of MLB.com, this was […]

The City of Fond du lac will be celebrating its Arbor Day on Friday, April 26th at 1:00 pm at the Park Pavilion in Lakeside Park. A third grade class from Roberts School will be planting the Arbor Day tree on the west lakefront in Lakeside Park. Festival Foods will donate the Arbor Day tree and tree seedlings for the students.  This will be a joint Arbor Day celebration for […]

by Vaughn R. Larson MADISON, Wis. — A top leader in the Wisconsin National Guard said he has seen growth in how the organization deals with sexual misconduct.  “In 2019 we had the Office of Complex Investigation assessment, and that gave us a roadmap to get us to where we are today,” said Brig. Gen. David May, Wisconsin’s deputy adjutant general for Air, during an April 2 ceremony at Joint Force […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys with Wisconsin’s largest business lobbying group have asked the state Supreme Court =to strike down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ use of a partial veto to lock in a school funding increase for the next 400 years. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center filed the petition Monday on behalf of two taxpayers. It will be up to the liberal-controlled state Supreme Court to decide whether […]

A UW Madison insect expert says a warmer than normal winter may mean more mosquitos and other bugs this summer.   UW Madison extension entomologist PJ Liesch says insects could be emerging earlier this year as a result of a milder winter.   "If that trend continues throughout the year;  a warmer, hot, above average year, that might allow some insects to squeeze out extra generations in some cases,"  Liesch told AM […]

St. Mary's Church in downtown Fond du Lac is celebrating the rededication of a civil-war era bell with a new automated bell system.   Holy Family Catholic Community's Sarah Razner says the 2,000 pound bronze bell has rung throughout downtown Fond du Lac for more than 150 years.  Razner says the bell, named the "Immaculate Conception," was installed in the original St. Mary Church in 1866.  A rededication ceremony was held Monday morning […]

The American Red Cross is encouraging residents to donate blood and platelets during National Volunteer Month in April.   American Red Cross in Wisconsin spokeswoman Laura McGuire says donors of all blood types, especially type O blood donors and those giving platelets are needed.  McGuire says the Red Cross depends on volunteer blood donors to collect about 12,000 blood donations every day. Upcoming blood drives: Fond du Lac 4/18/2024: 9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., […]

The Fond du Lac County Health Department is offering free testing in observance of Sexually Transmitted Infection Awareness month.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says more than 2.5 million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were reported in the U.S. in 2022.  Mueller says STIs must be treated as a public health priority.