Month: February 2017

Mayville Police are looking for an armed robbery suspect.  Police say the man robbed Sherwood Family Restaurant Sunday night at knifepoint.  No one was injured during the incident and the cash registered was recovered.  The suspect is a white man, approximately six feet tall with a thin build and about 45 to 50 years old. He was described as wearing blue jeans, a red flannel shirt and a blue jean jacket.  Anyone […]

Law enforcement were involved in a high speed chase in Fond du lac and Dodge counties.  The chase started on Highway 151 and then on Interstate 41 south with speeds in excess of 100 mph.  The chase ended shortly before noon just across the Fond du lac-Dodge County line . The suspect was taken into custody.  No injuries were reported.

The Fond du Lac School superintendent says the District has no legal recourse as it looks to replace the high school gym floor at a cost that could be in the neighborhood of $350,000.  Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says the floor started failing only a couple years after it was installed 16 years ago.  It's unfortunate,"  Sebert told WFDL news.  " A gym floor like that, just use Riverside (Elementary) […]

Fond du Lac Public Works says portions of two streets will be closed this week during the day.  East First Street between Ellis Street and Park Avenue is closed until Thursday to allow for the water utility to make emergency repairs to the water main. The street will reopen to traffic at 4pm each day. Rogersville Road between Military Road and Sullivan Drive is closed Tuesday for utility work and should […]

The Fond du Lac Yacht Club treasurer says it’s a miracle that a huge ice shove didn’t damage the building.  Tom Clausen says he was eating dinner at the Yacht Club Friday night when the shove pushed up against the building.  "There was about a two inch scrape in one of the doors.  The gutter was down an inch.  It was a miracle,"  Clausen told WFDL news.  Clausen says he […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A key Republican legislator says Gov. Scott Walker's plan to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition could hurt taxpayers and lawmakers should instead consider letting the system raise tuition according to inflation or income increases.  Rep. Dale Kooyenga, a member of the Legislature's powerful budget committee, wrote on the Right Wisconsin website last week that cutting tuition and backfilling it with state tax dollars means many […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has identified the person who died following a one vehicle crash in Dodge County over the weekend.   The Sheriff’s Office says 27 year old Timothy Price of rural Beaver Dam died following the crash early Sunday morning on Highway D near Zimmerman Drive in the town of Beaver Dam.  Price was the driver of a car  westbound on Highway D when it  left the […]

Representative Michael Schraa (R-Oshkosh) would like to hear what his constituents think of the governor’s budget proposal, which was released on February 8. He has scheduled Town Hall Meetings in four locations around the district over the next few weeks.  Interested citizens are encouraged to read over the Budget Presentation, Budget in Brief, or the Executive Budget, which is available on the Department of Administration website, www.doa.state.wi.us. The budget bill […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say the deaths of a couple in their home near Oshkosh were a murder-suicide involving a former financial adviser who was on trial for allegedly stealing money from elderly clients.  Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz said at a news conference Monday that Dewey Josephson apparently shot his wife, Jean Walsh-Josephson, then shot himself in what was a pre-planned event.  Deputies were sent to the couple's […]