Month: February 2015

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — A Racine lawmaker wants to repeal Wisconsin's 48-hour waiting period to buy handguns. State Senator Van Wanggaard says the original intent of the waiting period was to give gun dealers enough time to complete a background check, but they can now be done nearly instantly. Wanggaard says the 48-hour waiting period now amounts to a "time tax."

SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — The former president of Oscar Mayer will become the new CEO at Johnsonville Sausage.  The current CEO, Ralph Stayer, has led the privately owned Sheboygan Falls company for the last 47 years. He will retire April 1, but continue to serve as chairman of the board.  For the first time in the company's history, it will not be led by a member of the Stayer […]

FOND DU LAC-DODGE-SHEBOYGAN 331 AM CST MON FEB 23 2015 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM CST THIS MORNING... .EARLY THIS MORNING...CLEAR. WIND CHILL READINGS 17 BELOW TO 27 BELOW ZERO. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. .TODAY...BITTERLY COLD. SUNNY. HIGHS AROUND 9. SOUTHWEST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. LOWEST WIND CHILL READINGS 17 BELOW TO 27 BELOW ZERO IN THE MORNING. .TONIGHT...NOT AS COLD. BREEZY. PARTLY CLOUDY […]

A boil water advisory has been lifted in the village of Brandon   Public Health officer, Kim Mueller, says the advisory was lifted Sunday and flyers were distributed door to door notifying residents.  The  advisory was issued last week  following a water main break in the village.

A former Waupun resident was killed in a drive by shooting in Milwaukee.  Police say 24 year old Ryan T. Rompre, and a 25-year-old woman were traveling in a car on Milwaukee’s northside when another vehicle pulled next to them  and opened fire.  The incident happened February 11th in the 4400 block of Roosevelt Drive.   The woman suffered non life-threatening injuries, but Rompre died on Feb. 17 at  Froedtert […]

Two women were injured in an ATV rollover accident on Lake Winnebago.  Rescue personnel were called Saturday afternoon to a report of an ATV accident on the lake about a mile from Clarence’s Harbor on Winnebago Drive.  According to a sheriff’s report an ATV rolled over onto the female operator.  She was transported to St. Agnes Hospital with leg and rib injuries.   Another female occupant received minor rib injuries.

The Fond du Lac city council has recognized an Eagle Scout for his heroic, life saving actions involving a lake rescue in the Boundary Waters canoe area near the Minnesota-Canadian border.   The council last week honored North Fond du lac Horace Mann High School junior Michael Meisenberg with a proclamation.  Michael, his father Jeff and another adult, Michael Zagar were on a scouting expedition attempting to cross a deep lake […]

Fond du Lac city officials are moving forward with plans to extend two bicycle trails in the city.  Public Works Director Jordan Skiff says the city is using a donation from Agnesian HealthCare to hire an engineering firm to site bike trails in Lakeside Park and on Camelot  Drive in the southern portion of the city.  Skiff says the Brooke Street trail would be extended through the park closer to […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — The sturgeon spearing season has ended, with more than 2,100 fish harvested. State Department of Natural Resources Senior Fisheries Biologist Ryan Koenigs  says this was the sixth highest harvest since 1940.  In a news release, he says fisherman speared nearly 1,900 sturgeon on Lake Winnebago and about 290 from the nearby lakes by the time the season closed Saturday afternoon.  The agency sold a record number […]