Month: May 2016

Marian University will again host a wine bar as part of Walleye Weekend, June 10-12. The wine bar will feature a variety of wines for purchase, as well as live music performed by Marian University students. In addition, attendees at the wine bar can enter to win an all-inclusive vacation to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, compliments of Fox Travel.  Proceeds of the wine bar will benefit the Working Families Program. […]

Students at a Fond du lac elementary school were evacuated this morning after a bomb threat was made.   Students at Evans Elementary were evacuated and moved to nearby Sabish Middle School after the threat was made.  Police were called and did a walk-through of the building before determining the threat was not credible.   Students were then allowed to return back to school.  Its unknown if this threat is connected to recent robocall bomb threats that […]

An 8-year-old Wisconsin girl has received a life-changing gift from a teacher at her school.  Natasha Fuller underwent surgery Tuesday at a Milwaukee-area hospital, along with Oakfield Elementary teacher Jodi Schmidt, who donated a kidney to the first-grader.  A statement issued by Children's Hospital says the transplant went great. It says both Natasha and her teacher are recovering and doing well.  Natasha's smile and attitude in spite of her chronic […]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — TreeHouse Foods plans to close two of the manufacturing plants it acquired earlier this year when it bought ConAgra Foods' private label business.  reehouse says it will eliminate 720 jobs when it closes the plants in Azusa, California, and Ripon, Wisconsin.   Most of the job losses will happen in California where the plant employs 660 people making bars and other snack products.  The Wisconsin plant employs […]

After hearing from the public Waupun school officials are moving forward with plans for  a major building referendum this fall.  The board  reviewed results of a district survey at their meeting this week.  Superintendent Tanya Gubin says the survey is designed to ensure a referendum reflects the  wants  and needs of the District and its residents.  "The biggest thing is it looks like we've got pretty solid support,"  Gubin told WFDL news. […]

Downtown parking is on this week’s Fond du lac city council agenda.  The council will  hear the results of a survey of how downtown business owners feel about downtown parking and discuss possible changes to the city’s parking policies.  Downtown Partnership director Amy Hansen says the question is can the parking system be improved in the downtown?  Hansen says one concern is making sure that downtown business people don’t take customer parking spaces.  The council […]

A Fond du Lac man convicted of possessing child pornography is going to prison.  Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced 37 year old Keith Stinemates to three years in prison followed by ten years of extended supervision.  Stinemates pleaded no contest to one count of possession of child pornography.  A second count of possession of child porn and sexual exploitation were dismissed and read into the record.  According to a criminal […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attorney for a group of voters is telling a panel of judges that legislative district boundaries Republicans drew up clearly discriminate against Democrats.  The voters have filed a federal lawsuit alleging Assembly district boundaries Republicans created in 2011 are an unconstitutional attempt to consolidate power. A three-judge panel began a bench trial in Madison on Tuesday.  Nicholas Stephanopoulos, an attorney for the voters, said during […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The defense of Wisconsin voting laws being challenged in federal court as discriminatory begins with local clerks saying they haven't encountered any serious problems with the changes.  Clerks from northern Milwaukee suburbs of Cedarburg and Port Washington both testified Tuesday in federal court in Madison. They were the first witnesses called by the state Department of Justice in defense of more than a dozen laws being […]