An open house and dedication for the new Fond du Lac County Campbellsport Highway Garage will be held later this month. The garage is a 17,500 square foot facility with a solar panel that powers the facility along with a 3,900 ton salt shed. The open house will be held Saturday June 27th from 10am to 12:30pm. The garage is located at 284 Industrial Parkway in Campbellsport. Meanwhile county executive […]
Law Enforcement Agencies within Fond du Lac County have combined to form a Traffic Enforcement Task Force. Funded by a grant from the Wisconsin DOT’s Bureau of Transportation Safety (BOTS), the enforcement initiative involves the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office, Fond du Lac, Ripon and the North Fond du Lac Police Departments. Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says the task force will be working I-41, USH 151 and STH 23/Johnson […]
The executive director of the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du lac Kevin Miller has been named chairman of the Wisconsin Arts Board. Miller and the other new officers began their service at the quarterly meeting of the Arts Board in May. “I am very honored to serve our state by chairing the Wisconsin Arts Board,” Miller said. “I have enjoyed serving with the other arts […]
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — Officials have changed a southeastern Wisconsin city's rules on service animals after a woman took a baby kangaroo into a McDonald's restaurant. The city's Common Council voted 14-0 Monday night to define a service animal as a dog or miniature horse, but not a kangaroo. Police can cite people who try to use other animals. Beaver Dam police say the woman wrapped the baby kangaroo […]
A complaint filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court says a Fond du Lac attorney allegedly tried to bribe a court assistant after he claimed he was being “railroaded” by a Winnebago County judge. The complaint filed by the Office of Lawyer Regulation says attorney Kirk Everson was upset because the judge refused to reschedule an owi trial. According to the complaint Everson offered the judge’s assistant a gift card and […]
Fond du Lac residents are using social media to criticize a restaurant for demanding payment from firefighters who didn’t pick up their order because they were responding to a fire. On Friday June 5th six firefighters ordered takeout from the Cool River Sports Grill and Bar but then were called to a garage fire and later the vacant convent building fire. Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says the […]
Fond du Lac Festivals estimates a slight increase in attendance at this year’s Walleye Weekend despite the rain. Fond du lac Festivals director Leanne Doyle says overall attendance was estimated at 65,000 compared to 63,000 last year. Doyle says Friday’s attendance was estimated at about 15,000, 34 thousand on Saturday and 16,000 for Sunday.
The Fond du lac School superintendent says Fond du Lac Youth Baseball and the Recreation Department are making it work even though kids have fewer diamonds to play baseball on this summer. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says Baseball Inc. decided to close the 4th Street ball diamonds this year after the district ended its lease agreement with the organization. "They are two very nice diamonds but they are the property […]
The Fond du Lac County board has approved a supplemental wage increase for the union representing a group of social services employees. County Executive Al Buechel says because of Act 10 the group received a smaller pay increase this year compared to other non-union employees. "There's another factor we have to keep in mind. They are part of a five county consortium and their wages are way below the other […]