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The Ripon Area United Way is merging with the Fond du Lac Area United Way.   Ripon Area United Way Board president Jeff Puhlman-Becker says the merger  has been in the works for a couple of years.  Puhlman-Becker says the merger will help maximize both organization's impact and resources.   Fond du Lac Area United Way executive director Amber Kilawee says she is excited about working with the Ripon community.  Puhlman-Becker will serve on […]

Moraine Park Technical College has named Vernon Jung, of Kewaskum, as the 2023 Distinguished Alumnus.  Jung graduated from Moraine Park in 1983 with a degree in Machine Tool Technics and built a successful career in the tool and die industry. He has worked in the industry since graduation, and as the Principal of Team Technologies has become a reputable and respected business leader and has continued to move the industry forward […]

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #196 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on Sat., May 6, 2023, in honor of Army Air Forces First Lieutenant Roy Coulson Harms, who lost his life in World War II and whose remains have been identified and returned to Wisconsin for burial. “We are glad to be able to welcome […]

Moraine Park Technical College has announced its top three candidates for the College’s next Vice President (VP) of Teaching and Learning.    The current VP, Dr. Jim Eden, announced his retirement last year and since then has been the College has been in an active recruitment process. Dr. Eden will retire on June 30 and the new VP of Teaching and Learning will begin on July 1.   After a nationwide […]

The U.S. has approved the first vaccine for RSV, shots to protect older adults. The respiratory virus filled hospitals with wheezing babies last fall but also endangers seniors. After decades of failure in developing an RSV vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration decision Wednesday makes GSK’s shot the first of several in the pipeline to be licensed.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says its been 60 […]

Wisconsin Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he believes congress will  act to raise or suspend the nation's borrowing authority to avoid a default on it's debt.  Grothman says he is encouraged that president Biden has invited congressional leaders,   including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to the White House May 9th to try to ease the debt limit standoff.   McCarthy and GOP lawmakers are demanding spending cuts in return for lifting the government's […]

Envision Greater Fond du Lac is hoping to launch a business incubator program at the UWO-Fond du Lac campus.     Envision president Sadie Vander Velde told WFDL news Envision is working with the  Small Business Development Center and UWO Fond du Lac to repurpose some classroom   space in a campus building for the  program.  Vander Velde says if the county board gives the okay she hopes Envision can move on campus later […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers promises to veto a wide-ranging Republican plan to bolster aid to local governments, saying the measure moving rapidly through the GOP-controlled Legislature doesn’t give enough money to communities struggling to pay for police, fire and other services. Republican authors of the bill said at a hearing Thursday they remained open to making changes, with Sen. Mary Felzkowski downplaying Evers’ veto threat as […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Ghana national has pleaded not guilty in federal court to stealing about $2.4 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party in a wire fraud scheme. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Paul Williams Anti was charged in February with embezzlement. He entered the plea Wednesday in Madison. According to prosecutors, scammers manipulated state GOP employees' email accounts in October 202 to divert funds meant for vendors […]