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METTAWA, Ill. (Nov 15, 2023) — Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC), today announced its Mercury Marine division was named a 2024 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovation Award honoree in the Sustainability, Eco-Design & Smart Energy category for the Avator 20e and 35e electric outboards. This is the third CES Innovation Award for Mercury. In 2022, Mercury’s V12 600hp Verado outboard engine won the award in the Vehicle & Transportation category, and in 2021, Mercury’s 1st […]

AAA expects to rescue over 360,000 stranded motorists nationwide over Thanksgiving weekend. The three most common reasons expected for service calls are flat tires, dead batteries, and lockouts.  AAA expects more than 960,000 Wisconsinites to take a Thanksgiving road trip. The Auto Club Group urges them to have their vehicle inspected before leaving home, in effort to prevent roadside issues before they happen.   “Don’t let car trouble be the reason you don’t make it […]

City offices in the City/County Government Center will be closed on November 23rd and 24th in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.   The Municipal Service Center office will be closed on November 24th and 25th. However, yard waste and brush may still be dropped off during the holiday hours. Note: The bulky waste drop off site will be open on Saturday, November 25th (8am-12pm). Refuse and recycling will be collected as […]

The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders will celebrate their eighth season of Northwoods League play in 2024. As part of the season-long celebration, the club has unveiled an eighth-season logo. The graphic will be featured on promotional items, as well merchandise available HERE and HERE.  The Dock Spiders won their first Northwoods League Championship in 2018 and also claimed the League's Wisconsin-Illinois Pod Championship in 2020. Since their first season in 2017, the Dock […]

A Fond du Lac woman was treated for non life-threatening injuries and a suspect is  in custody following a stabbing incident in Fond du Lac.  The incident happened Wednesday morning  in the 800 block of Martin Avenue.  A 29 year old woman was treated at St. Agnes Hospital for a laceration to her face.  A 32 year old woman  was arrested and is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on charges […]

Thursday is the Great American Smokeout.  The event, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, encourages people who currently smoke to quit, even if its just for one day.  Tobacco Prevention and Control Program assistant with the East Central Alliance for Nicotine Prevention, Laura Nikielski, says the first Great American Smokeout helped nearly 1 million people quit smoking for one day.  "1976 was the first one in California, youth starting a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Lockdowns at two of Wisconsin’s oldest and most understaffed prisons are being eased. The effort announced Tuesday by Gov. Tony Evers comes less than a month after inmates filed a federal lawsuit alleging that current conditions at the Waupun prison amount to cruel and unusual punishment. Evers announced the reduced lockdown along with a host of efforts designed to increase safety for inmates and staff. The […]

STANDARD, Ill. (AP) — A magnitude 3.6 earthquake rattled northern Illinois and parts of three other states early Wednesday, awakening some residents and spurring reports to 911 about homes shaking, the U.S. Geological Survey and police said.  The small earthquake was detected about 4:41 a.m. local time and was centered about sixth-tenths of a mile (1 kilometer) south-southeast of Standard, Illinois, a town that's about 100 miles (161 kilometers) southwest of […]

The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says there has been a substantial increase in violent crime locally in the last couple of years.  Eric Toney commented following a life prison sentence handed down last week for a Fond du Lac man convicted in a deadly shooting incident.  Toney says 18 intentional homicide or attempted intentional homicide cases have been referred to his office in the last two years compared to three […]