Starting Wednesday the Seymour Street bridge between Grove Street and West 11th Street in Fond du Lac will be closed for about a month for repair work. Crewws will be renovating the bridge deck, including milling and overlay work. The entire project is expected to be completed by June. There will be no posted detour route.
This week is dedicated to the men and women who act as the liason between the public and law enforcement when there is an emergency or call for service. This week has been designated as National Telecommunicators week. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says dispatchers are the first line of defense answering 911 calls, non-emergency calls, monitoring multiple radio frequencies, and using the resources they have to keep law enforcement, […]
The Fond du Lac School superintendent describes a meeting with Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt on the topic of a school accountability bill as productive. Fond du Lac superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert along with superintendents from North Fond du Lac, Lomira and Campbellsport met with Thiesfeldt Friday at the request of the state lawmaker. Sebert says while Thiesfeldt remains committed to sanctions for failing schools, he is open to what […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says increasing SeniorCare fees would be reasonable since they're so modest as lawmakers revise Gov. Scott Walker's budget. The governor's spending plan calls for requiring enrollees in the popular prescription drug program to first sign up for the federal Medicare Medicare Part D. Rep. John Nygren, Republican co-chairman of the Legislature's finance committee, has said that idea is dead. Vos, a Rochester […]
Groups representing older residents and people with disabilities are expressing concern about cuts proposed in governor Walker’s budget. Public Policy director of the group Disability Rights Wisconsin, Lisa Pugh, told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program the governor’s proposed budget would dismantle the state’s Family Care and IRIS programs for older adults and people with disabilities. Pugh says there are currently more than 1,000 Fond du Lac county residents […]
A woman accused of posting an ad on Craigslist to get back at a woman seeing her boyfriend has been bound over for trial. Crystal Bunkelman pleaded not guilty to a charge of misappropriating ID information/ to harm someone’s reputation. According to a criminal complaint Waupun Police received a call from a Waupun woman complaining that she was receiving strange messages and pictures from men who had seen an ad […]
PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — A woman charged with killing a Beaver Dam man in 2001 is out of jail on bond after her trial was postponed until October. Thirty-nine-year-old Leah Waldhart had been in the Columbia County Jail since February 2014. She's accused of causing the death of Curtis Wylesky through cocaine toxicity. His body was found in a ditch. As part of conditions for Waldhart's release, she's required to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has passed a bill that would make lying about serving in the military a crime. The Republican-authored bill would make falsely claiming military service or an award related to military service a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. If someone makes those claims with the intent to commit or aid another crime he or she would […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Public workers covered under two unions would get a 1 percent raise under a pair of collective bargaining agreements the state Assembly has approved. The contracts up for approval Tuesday were negotiated by Gov. Scott Walker's administration and unions covering members of the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association and the Building Trades Negotiating Committee. The deals are for the current fiscal year only. The 1 percent negotiated […]