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SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac is giving $3,000 to REACH Waupun to support its Get Active! program, which is designed to help improve the health and well-being of youth in the Waupun community.    “We’re pleased to help support this very important local initiative through our community benefit program,” according to DeAnn Thurmer, SSM Health Ripon Community Hospital/SSM Health Waupun Memorial Hospital president. “Studies show that sports play a […]

FOND DU LAC, WI – Look out for speedy Spiders on the basepaths! Each time a Dock Spiders player steals a base at home this season (including playoffs), Silica For Your Home will donate $50 to the Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac. Silica For Your Home recently celebrated 100 years of service to the Fond du Lac-area community in 2022 and are proud of their family business […]

Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College awarded its annual Business and Industry Partner Awards at a luncheon last week, April 26. All the nominees were invited to attend and celebrate the College’s valued partnerships of 2022.  The College’s Economic and Workforce Development (EWD) recognizes five partnership awards each year: Excellence in Partnership, Employer of the Year, Innovation, New Partner of the Year and Workforce Development Champion.  “The Business Partner Awards […]

The driver of a semi-tractor trailer was flown by helicopter to the hospital with seriousbut non life-threatening  injuries following a crash in Fond du Lac.    Shortly before midnight Wednesday rescue personnel were called to East Johnson Street and Wisconsin American Drive where the semi had flipped over.   Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says the semi was traveling at a high rate of speed at the time of the crash.   Goldstein says the driver […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love acknowledges the burden that comes along with replacing a four-time MVP.  He welcomes the scrutiny that’s sure to follow him all season.  “You’re an NFL quarterback,” Love said Wednesday while talking to reporters for the first time since the Packers traded Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets.  “There’s only so many of you. So everyone’s watching you. Everyone’s watching every move you […]

Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College has selected Douglas Hamm to serve as the next Vice President of Teaching and Learning. Effective June 5, Hamm will assume his role as part of the president's cabinet and serve as the College’s chief academic officer.   Hamm brings a variety of experiences in higher education, as an entrepreneur and in corporate settings with a working knowledge of business acumen, including customer […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed a pair of bipartisan bills that increase the penalties for carjacking and reckless driving. The first measure makes carjacking a formal crime. Until now, someone who used or threatened force to steal a vehicle could be charged with operating a vehicle without the owner's consent. Under the bill, anyone who uses a weapon to steal a vehicle could face up to […]

The president of SSM Health St. Agnes Hospital in Fond du Lac says monitoring of COVID-19 will continue when the federal Public Heath Emergency ends May 11th.  Katherine Vergos says COVID-19 prevention and precaution remains a priority as response programs transition.  Vergos says its been a long three years for everyone.   Vergos says staff is coming off a time of high stress , grief and challenge.  Vergos says even though the public health emergency […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A mining company has gotten conditional approval to begin exploratory drilling for copper and gold in northern Wisconsin, but state regulators say it must still meet additional requirements before the work can begin. Canadian company GreenLight Metals wants to conduct exploratory drilling at a 40-acre site owned by the U.S. Forest Service about 20 miles northwest of Medford in Taylor County. The deposit is believed to […]