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The Dodge County Sheriff's Office continues to investigate a crash that seriously injured a Beaver Dam woman.  Seventy-seven year old Margaret Brozek remains hospitalized in serious condition.  A preliminary investigation shows that her car collided with another vehicle at the intersection of Highway 151 and county Highway DE Thursday.  The driver of the second vehicle, 57 year old Ronal Vosberg of Stoughton, was treated and released from a hospital.

The first over the counter birth control pill will be available in US stores later this month.  Manufacturer Perrigo says it has begun shipping the medication, called Opill, to major retailers and pharmacies.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says Opill's approval is unrelated to the ongoing court battles over the abortion pill mifepristone, and anti-abortion groups have generally emphasized they do not oppose  contraceptives to prevent pregnancies.  A one […]

The Fox Valley Workforce Development Board will be assisting workers who  are being laid off from the Del Monte Foods Plant in Markesan.  Development Board CEO Anthony Snyder says 90 workers at Del Monte Foods are being laid off as early as April 26.  Snyder says most of the nonunion employees who are affected by the layoffs are full-time.  "Del Monte indicated there had simply been a decrease in sales of their […]

A plastic surgeon with the SSM Health Fond du Lac Regional Clinic has reached a  milestone when he recently completed his 1,000th patient treated for carpal tunnel release          with a new ultrasound procedure.  Dr. Richard Schaefer uses what's called UltraGuideCTR  and real-time ultrasound guidance.                                              […]

Fond du Lac, Wis. (March 8, 2024) – The Young Professionals of Fond du Lac (YPF), a program of Envision Greater Fond du Lac, recently relaunched their brand and hosted a ribbon cutting to commemorate it.  Past, current, and prospective members of YPF gathered alongside members of the Envision Ambassadors for a celebratory event to unveil the new brand for YPF. This new brand better aligns the program with the parent organization and positions it […]

In Hollywood, actor Kevin Bacon is a big star. In Wisconsin’s Kenosha County, Kevin Bacon is one big pig! The 450-pound porker wandered away from his pen last week before moseying down the road where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera. Jake Molgaard said Wednesday that his wife saw an “unusual shaped figure” on their driveway camera. Molgaard said the pig walked along the […]

MADISON, WI – Today, the Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) approved three requests under Wis. Stat. 13.10 which provides $32M for UW System to focus on workforce initiatives; releases $5M for Marquette School of Dentistry to establish a dentistry residence program; and transfers $2.3M from a land sale at the Northern Wisconsin Center to pay down debt at the facility. Following the meeting, the Co-Chairs Representative Mark Born (R-Beaver Dam) and […]

The Fond du Lac County Fair has announced its first big name entertainment for this year's Fair.  Vanilla Ice with special guest Rob Base will perform on Thursday July 18.   Tickets go on sale Wednesday March 13.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Federal authorities are investigating a possible smuggling ring at a Wisconsin prison that has resulted in the suspension of nearly a dozen employees. A spokesperson for Gov. Tony Evers said Thursday that the governor and the state Department of Corrections asked the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal law enforcement authorities to launch an investigation at Waupun Correctional Institution in June. Spokesperson Britt Cudaback says […]