Month: February 2017

One lucky player in Fond du Lac County matched all five numbers in the Badger 5 drawing on Sunday, February 26 to win the night's $71,000 jackpot.  The lucky winner purchased their ticket at Dins Garage & Mini Mart at N3006 State Highway 67 in Campbellsport.    Sunday's winning Badger 5 numbers were 1, 10, 12, 18 and 31. Badger 5 is a daily lotto game available only in Wisconsin. […]

The Fond du Lac School Board will get more information at a workshop session tonight on the need to replace the gym floor at the Fond  du lac High School Fieldhouse.  School board president Mark Jurgella says school administration officials say the floor is failing and needs to be replaced at a cost estimated in excess of $300,000.  "The boards are splitting, the sub-floor is failing creating some real soft […]

The Fond Du Lac Yacht Club closed temporarily over the weekend after a huge ice shove hit the building. The club, at Lakeside Park, posted photos on its website.  The post states the building will be closed Saturday.  “We currently do not have water, gas, or power and will not likely have that until sometime tomorrow (Saturday) depending on when clean-up crews are done.”

One person died and one person was seriously injured in a one vehicle crash in Dodge County over the weekend.  The crash happened early Sunday morning on Highway D  near Zimmerman Drive in the town of Beaver Dam.   A preliminary investigation shows that a  car was westbound on Highway D when it  left the road,  entered a ditch and struck a  utility pole.   The driver and passenger both 27 […]

A new report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that young millennials top the list of worst behaved drivers.  The report found that 88 percent of drivers ages 19-24 engaged in at least one risky behavior behind the wheel in the past 30 days.  AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says the dangerous behaviors, which increase crash risk, including texting while driving, red-light running and speeding.  Jarmusz says interestingly new […]

The Fond du Lac Public Works director says the unusual fluctuating temperatures this winter are taking a toll on city streets.  Public Works director Jordan Skiff says the freezing followed by unusually warm weather has created dozens of potholes.  Skiff says the good news is that crews have been able to repair some of the potholes already during stretches of  above normal temperatures.

The Fond du lac Public Works Department says Promen Drive between Lighthouse Drive and Frazier Drive in Lakeside Park will be closed this week.   The daytime closure will begin Monday, February 27th and  remain closed until the end of the day Friday.  However the street should reopen to traffic at the end of each work day. The closure will allow a contractor to complete work near the Lakeside Park Pavilion.

UNDERHILL, Vt. (AP) — Maple syrup doesn't get that rich flavor and color in an instant. It's a long process from tree to bottle.  But improved technology could keep maple sugarers from working late into the night boiling sap into syrup.  The machine removes more water from sap, leaving a higher sugar content in half the time and energy it takes to heat the sap into syrup.  Dozens of producers […]