A gas leak forced the evacuation of several buildings in Waupun Friday night. Shortly after 9pm Friday firefighters responded to a report of a natural gas odor on East Main Street and discovered a gas line and meter had been sheared off. As a precaution all buildings on the north side of Main Street were evacuated and East Main and North Madison Streets were temporarily closed. Alliant Energy was able […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court ruled Wednesday that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court's ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election. The initial ruling by a Dane County Circuit Court judge allowing for the ballots to be emailed, made in June, was appealed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. The appeals court in August put the ruling on hold and […]
A controlled burn got out of control in Dodge County, burning dozens of acres of marshland before it was finally extinguished. Shortly before 2:30pm Wednesday firefighters from 10 departments were called to the scene on County Highway I, near state Highway 49 southeast of the state prison farm for a report of brush on fire. Waupun Fire Chief BJ DeMaa says it didn’t take long for the fire to spread. DeMaa says […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The mayor of Wisconsin's capital city has placed the municipal clerk on leave as investigators work to determine how almost 200 ballots in the November election went uncounted. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway announced Wednesday that she has placed City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl on administrative leave pending the outcome of a city investigation. The Madison city clerk's office discovered 67 unprocessed ballots on Nov. 12 and another […]
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun sided Tuesday with eight states that requested a temporary restraining order. California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin argued the cuts would cost […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Junior Bridgeman, a basketball standout who led Louisville to a Final Four, starred for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and then launched an even more successful career as a businessman with stakes in restaurants, publishing and the Bucks franchise, died Tuesday. He was 71. Bridgeman was a popular fixture in Louisville after his playing days, and Mayor Craig Greenberg announced his death, saying the city had “lost […]
MADISON, Wis. – Each year, we celebrate National Ag Day in March. In Wisconsin, agriculture contributes $116.3 billion annually to the state’s economy, and about one in ten people working in the state hold a job related to the industry. These statistics are just a few that demonstrate the central role and impact of agriculture in Wisconsin. Gov. Evers recently introduced his fourth biennial budget, and, like his previous budgets, […]
Becky Casper, an SSM Health Fond du Lac Regional Clinic Dermatology electrologist, has been named the newest recipient of the BEE (Be Exceptional Everyday) Award. Casper was nominated by a colleague who wrote: “Becky goes above and beyond to ensure our department runs as smoothly as possible. She has her own caseload of patients but is always willing to help out others when needed. She took over our department ordering […]
Testing Kits The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is pleased to announce that we have partnered with Simple HealthKit to offer a limited supply of free at-home test kits that provide confirmatory results for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis, and preliminary results for HIV and syphilis. The goal of this program is to expand access to HIV and STI testing for Wisconsin residents who do not live near a free […]