Month: September 2014

New election equipment, land for a new highway garage and a major road reconstruction project.  Fond du Lac County executive Al Buechel says those are the highlights in the first year of a five year capital improvement  Buechel says the most expensive project next year is reconstructing a portion of Highway I west of Highway 41 near Eldorado.  Buechel says money is also earmarked next year to purchase land for […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating potential criminal charges in all but one traffic fatality in  the county this year.  There have been four traffic fatalities on Fond du Lac County roadways so far this year.  Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says with the exception of a motorcycle vs. deer fatality…three other fatal traffic crashes remain under investigation for possible criminal charges.

The Fond du Lac County clerk says she’s concerned that voter turnout was so light in the recent August primary election.   Lisa Freiberg says turnout was below projections both locally and statewide.  In Fond du Lac County only 23 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.  Freiberg says part of the problem may be that the election is during the summer.  But she says changes that place restrictions on absentee voting […]

The director of the Marquette University law school poll says the latest numbers show a governor’s race that appears to be going right down to the wire.  For the third consecutive poll governor Scott Walker and Democrat Mary Burke are within the margin of error.  Poll director Charles Franklin says the most interesting information in this latest poll shows that Democrats are a bit more likely to say they are […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Liquor licenses in Oshkosh have been in high demand for the last 40 years, so city officials are a little surprised that no one is applying for three licenses that have been available for a while.  The city's Common Council plans to wait and see whether the business community develops any proposals for the licenses. Mayor Burk Tower says it's possible the city will keep them. […]

VERONA, Wis. (AP) — There's a good chance that many of the trendy vegetables foodies latch on to in the next decade will come from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Plant breeders at other public universities focus on improving field corn, soybeans and other crops used in food manufacturing.  Those in Madison are working on producing better-tasting vegetables. Horticulture professor Julie Dawson is leading a project in which breeders work with […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin apple growers say they expect their crop this autumn to be good or a little above average.  Growers were concerned after last year's unusually heavy harvest. But this year's crop is shaping up to be more in line with the yield of previous years.  The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Wisconsin produced nearly 42 million pounds of apples last year. That was an 18 percent […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials say a pipeline construction project could kill members of several threatened and endangered species.  Wisconsin Gas LLC wants to construct a new 74-mile natural gas lateral that would run from an existing pipeline in Eau Claire or Clark County to Tomah. The Department of Natural Resources says the project could result in incidental taking of the threatened prairie leafhopper; the endangered phlox moth; […]