Month: February 2016

The City of Fond du Lac is still accepting applications for the newly formed Downtown Fond du Lac Exploratory Committee. Applications are available on the City of Fond du Lac’s website at https://www.fdl.wi.gov/   The City Clerk will be collecting applications until February 26th. Paper copies will also be available at various locations throughout the City. Applications can be returned to 160 S Macy Street or emailed to mhefter@fdl.wi.gov   The Committee […]

The state Fire Marshal has been called and Fond du lac police detectives are investigating, but fire investigators say at this point there is nothing to indicate a fire that destroyed a popular west side Fond du Lac bar is suspicious.  The fire early Wednesday morning destroyed the Wayside Tavern, just across the railroad tracks on West Division Street.  Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says dozens of firefighters from several area departments assisted […]

Fond du Lac police detectives are questioning neighbors and asking for any information from the public regarding a fire that destroyed the Wayside Tavern.    Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the police arson investigator is working with fire investigators to try to determine a cause.  "Anytime you have a fire and you have an unknown cause of that fire we work very closely with the fire department,"  Klein told WFDL news.  Nobody was injured […]

A Fond du Lac High school student who pulled a fire alarm last month as a prank sending students and teachers outside during the coldest day this winter has been expelled for the rest of the school year.   Temperatures were in the low single digits with windchills of 25 below when the 17-year-old student pulled the fire alarm January 18th.  School officials say the students were outside for only about five minutes.

The Fond du Lac Community Development Director says several major construction projects are nearing completion.  Dyann Benson says an assisted living facility at the former Rolling Meadows Nursing home building is expected to open this spring. Benson says interior finishes are underway in the Grande Cheese corporate offices on Camelot Drive near the 151 bypass.  She says the St. Mary’s Springs campus expansion is already in the drywall phase.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An appeals court says additional clarification of a state law governing abortions in Wisconsin isn't necessary, providing in its decision the clarity Planned Parenthood has sought.  The Fourth District Court of Appeals Wednesday reversed a circuit court decision sought by Planned Parenthood. The organization wanted clarification of two provisions in the 2012 law.  One requires the prescribing physician to be in the room when a woman […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says it is "eminently reasonable" to have the next president and Senate decide who will serve on the Supreme Court, a position that puts him at odds with his Democratic opponent Russ Feingold.  Johnson referred to the importance of naming a replacement to Justice Antonin Scalia in comments to Wisconsin business leaders Wednesday saying the upcoming election is "for all the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Professional Police Association has endorsed Court of Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg in Wisconsin's Supreme Court race. Executive Director Jim Palmer said in a statement that Kloppenburg has a deep understanding of the law and a demonstrated ability to be impartial. Palmer also said Kloppenburg has a longer track record than incumbent Rebecca Bradley.  The group interviewed both candidates before endorsing.  Bradley was appointed to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Open government advocates are questioning whether a Department of Natural Resources board violated the open meetings law by going into a closed-door, unnoticed meeting.  The board was scheduled to meet Wednesday morning. Before the meeting began, all the board members entered a room adjoining the board room and closed the door. They remained behind the door for several minutes.  Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council President Bill […]