Fond du Lac police are investigating if a shooting incident last week may be related to a similar incident last fall. No injuries were reported after police responded last Friday night to a report of shots fired in the area of Doty and West Follett Streets. The following morning police discovered that a detached garage and vehicle in the 200 block of Doty Street had been struck by bullets. PoliceChief Aaron Goldstein […]
The Laconia High School girls basketball team hoisted the gold ball for the first time in the school's history. The Spartans defeated top-seeded La Crosse Aquinas 64-51 in the Division 4 championship game Saturday at the Resch Center in Green Bay. Laconia was the runner-up last year and in 2019.
The Fond du Lac School District has announced the hiring of several new administrators for the 2023-24 school year including two elementary school principals and a new director of pupil services. Jasan Gahan has been hired as the new director of Pupil Services. Gahanis the director of Secondary Special Education in the Waukesha School District. Pier Elementary interim principal Jenny Hughes has been named principal at the school. She has been […]
The statewide unemployment rate fell to 2.9 percent in January. The Department of Workforce Development says Wisconsin added 4,100 nonfarm jobs over the month and 55,800 jobs over the year. Wisconsin's unemployment rate fell to 2.9% for January, down 0.1 percentage point from the revised 3% in December 2022.
After years of refusing to expand Medicaid benefits for new mothers, Republican officials in more than a half-dozen states are reversing course. They're trumpeting the coverage as central to their conservative, anti-abortion agenda. The shift in GOP support for postpartum Medicaid coverage is occurring in some states that have severely limited or outlawed abortion access since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion. The effort also comes as […]
The Holyland Food Pantry Board of Directors are hosting an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony next month for a new food pantry. The new food pantry is located on Kiel Road in Marytown. The pantry was built with an initial matching grant from the Basic Needs Giving Partnership Fund along with private and public donations. The new facility has increased storage to buy bulk commodities and offer handicapped accessibility […]
One person was killed and one person was injured in an SUV vs. semi crash on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened about 4:30am Friday on southbound 41 near County Highway N. A preliminary investigation indicates a soutbound semi jackknifed on the snow-covered Interstate and was struck by a southbound SUV. The driver of the SUV, a Neenah man was killed. A passenger, also from Neenah, was […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans blocked Gov. Tony Evers' plan Thursday to require student vaccinations against meningitis and tighten student chickenpox vaccination requirements. The Legislature's GOP-controlled rules committee voted 6-4 to block the proposal. All six of the panel's Republican members voted to stop the policy. The vote comes two days after a lengthy public hearing on the policy changes that saw parents complain that the new requirements trample their […]
Coming off an unprecedented performance at the world championships, 18-year-old Jordan Stolz is already facing inevitable comparisons to the greatest speedskater of them all. Eric Heiden. Stolz chuckles a bit at being mentioned in the same sentence with the winner of five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics. But the teenager who grew up skating on a frozen pond behind his Wisconsin home doesn’t shy away from it, either. […]