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Drug Free Communities of Fond du Lac County has a new grant coordinator.  Ripon native and former county director of administration Ellen Sorensen has been tabbed for the post.  Sorensen returns to Fond du Lac County having spent several years working in administrative capacities at both Brown and Marinette Counties.  The past two years she has dealt with issues of drug use and chaired the Criminal Justice Coordinating Committee of […]

Fond du Lac County Executive Allen Buechel will receive the Wisconsin Library Association (WLA) Citation of Merit for his outstanding contribution to libraries and librarianship. The award is given to Wisconsin citizens who are neither librarians nor library trustees and who have made outstanding contributions to quality library services.  Buechel was nominated by the directors of the seven libraries in Fond du Lac County. The nomination cited Buechel’s “unique level […]

Lieutenant governor Rebecca Kleefisch is making a campaign stop in Fond du Lac Saturday.  Kleefisch will make a stop at the Republican Party of Wisconsin Fond du Lac field office at 810 South Main Street.  Kleefisch is scheduled to arrive at 6pm Saturday.

The Marian University Board of Trustees recently appointed three new members.  Todd Butz, a 1999 alumnus of Marian, serves as the Vice President of Finance/Controller of MEC, Inc., in Mayville. He earned a Bachelor of Business Administration and Accounting at Marian University and an MBA at Oklahoma State Troy Schill is a 1994 alumnus of Marian and serves as the Director of Business Unit Finance of Grande Cheese Company in […]

A hefty cash bail has been ordered for a Campbellsport martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting one of his students.  Forty three year old William Schellinger made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance Thursday on two counts of second degree sexual assault of a child and one count of repeated sexual assault of the same child.  Judge Gary Sharpe set bail at $100,000 cash.  According to a criminal […]

BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — Bail is set at $1 million cash bond for a Wisconsin man charged in the shooting deaths of his estranged wife and her boyfriend.  Thirty-three-year-old Nicholas Tuinstra faces two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of Melissa Tuinstra and Justin Daniels. Both victims were 28 years old.  According to the complaint, Nicholas Tuinstra initially denied going to his wife's Berlin apartment the night she […]

A Beaver Dam man has been charged following a disagreement over a transaction initiated on Craigslist.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the incident on Meadow Lane was not a home invasion.  Klein says the Beaver Dam man had advertised record albums on Craigslist and drove to Fond du lac to sell the albums to a couple who had responded to the ad.  Klein says a physical confrontation took place […]

Three men arrested in a Fond du lac drug raid this week have been charged.  Twenty year old Dazwan Jones, 39 year old Quentin Huston and 29 year old Miguel West made their initial Fond du lac court appearances this week on various drug related offenses.  Bail was set at $50,000 cash for West, $20,000 cash bond for Jones and $3000 cash bond for Huston.  Police arrested the men following […]

An Oshkosh man who got into a scuffle with a Fond du Lac police officer was in trouble again shortly after he was released from jail.  The man appeared in court and Judge Gary Sharpe ordered a signature bond. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says officers were called to the Gratitude Club on Ruggles Street this week after the man became unruly and threatened others in the building.  When an […]