Month: August 2014

The Fond du Lac County executive says a preliminary budget does not contain any cuts in programs or staff.  The county finance committee held a preliminary discussion on the 2015 county budget at their meeting this week.   "We have a good wellness program, its been very successful, we're budgeting a zero increase on our medical insurance again,"  Buechel told WFDL news.  "...the fourth year in a row we've been […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin tax collections are more than $281 million short of estimates, a drop that could require the Legislature to take action to keep the budget in balance.  The state Department of Revenue on Thursday released the figures for the fiscal year that ended in June. Those figures show the state collected $281.2 million less than was anticipated by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau in January.  That […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says dairy farmers can begin signing up Sept. 2 for a new program that replaces old subsidies.  The program is a kind of insurance that pays farmers when the difference between milk prices and feed prices shrink to a certain level. It replaces a program that paid farmers when milk prices sank too low.  Dairy farmers have struggled in recent years even […]

NEWVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin biologists say the koi herpes virus that's killing thousands of common carp has spread and will continue to do so.  Laura Stremick-Thompson, a fisheries biologist at the state Department of Natural Resources, says the die-off started at the Rock River in July, reached Lake Koshkonong last week and will probably arrive in Janesville and Beloit in the next few weeks.  The biologist says local residents […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker's administration has warned the Forest County Potawatomi tribe that it could lose about 2,000 slot machines if it succeeds in withholding its $25 million annual payment to the state. The Potawatomi say they're withholding the money because the state may end up owing the tribe money if Walker approves the Menominee tribe's proposed Kenosha casino.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The last time President Barack Obama came to Wisconsin to celebrate workers' rights on Labor Day, there was barely a hint of the turmoil that was to come. Union membership has plummeted in Wisconsin over the four years since Obama last attended the labor rally in Milwaukee, thanks to the 2011 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke won't take the stage with President Barack Obama on Monday when he speaks at a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee. A Burke spokesman says it is not appropriate for Burke to speak at the rally Obama is attending because it is an official White House event and not a campaign rally. Governor Scott Walker also won't be greeting Obama when he […]

A Campbellsport teenager accused of trying to disarm a sheriff’s deputy has  pleaded not guilty.  Nineteen year old Tanner Gremminger was arraigned in Fond du lac County Circuit Court Thursday on charges of battery to an officer,  disarming a police officer and obstructing.  Gremminger is accused of pointing a taser at sheriff’s deputy Paul Metzger after the deputy was allegedly struck by 22 year old Colton O’Brien of Eden.  Gremminger […]

On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 at approximately 9:00 pm the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a hit and run crash near W8089 County Highway Q, ½ of a mile to the west of Richwood, Town of Shields (rural Watertown).   A 35 year old rural Watertown man was legally riding his bicycle and was struck by a westbound motor vehicle.  The striking vehicle did not stop and continued driving.  The […]