Month: April 2017

 City of Fond du Lac - Weekly Construction Update The City of Fond du Lac is providing a weekly update on construction projects located within the corporate boundary. Motorists are advised to use caution and remain alert when driving though any work zone.   CTH VV (PIONEER RD) from Hickory Street to Rogersville Road Schedule: April 2017 thru November 2017 Description of work: This is a joint project with the […]

The largest high-pressure diecast machine in North America was unveiled Monday at Fond du lac’s Mercury Marine.  A company press release says it took 18 over sized truckloads to ship to Fond du Lac,  but now, Merc is ready to put the new machine to work.   Merc president John Pfeifer says the diecasting machine will provide Mercury the opportunity to cast more efficiently and its expand its portfolio to non-marine […]

A Campbellsport woman is accused of running an opioid ring, dealing pills and heroin from her purse at her kitchen table.  Fifty seven year old, Lori Merget and seven others, including her son,  have been charged in Washington County with conspiracy to sell heroin.   According to a criminal complaint Merget obtained hundreds of prescription oxycodone pills per month from two Milwaukee pain clinics and street dealers. Informants told detectives they […]

Authorities have identified the victim of  a fatal a one vehicle rollover crash  in Fond du lac County Sunday .   The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says 21 year old Whitney Domer of Oshkosh was pronounced dead at the scene  on Highway 26 north of Willow Creek Road in the town of  Waupun.  She was a passenger in a car driven by 18 year old Jonathan Vogel of Milwaukee.  […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that significantly damaged a Fond du Lac home.  Shortly before 5am Saturday firefighters were called to a  residence at 386 Ledgewood Ave.  Fire crews worked to extinguish the fire which is believed to have started in the basement.   The homeowner was not at home at the time of the fire and there were no injuries.   A newspaper delivery person called in the […]

One person received minor injuries in a crash involving  two police squad cars.   The incident happened shortly after 8pm Friday during a traffic stop on Johnson St. near N. Seymour St.   The squads were struck from behind by a vehicle driven by a 79-year-old Fond du Lac man.   A 27-year-old Fond du Lac woman who had been arrested during the traffic stop was in the back seat of one […]

The Fond du lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident that seriously injured a Campbellsport area man.  Shortly before 5pm Friday the Sheriff’s Office and Campbellsport ambulance were dispatched to a residence at W3827 Highway 67 for a report of a 66 year old man found in his garage bleeding from his head.  The man was flown by Flight for Life helicopter to Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee with serious […]

A Fond du lac man convicted of intentionally setting a car on fire is going to  prison.    At a hearing Friday Fond du lac judge Dale English sentenced Kevin Wilson to a year and a half in prison and one year of extended supervision.  In December Wilson pled guilty to intimidation of a witness and gave Alford pleas to arson of vehicle and  criminal damage to property.  

PRINCETON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have identified the victim of a house fire in Princeton that's being investigated as a homicide. The Green Lake County Coroner's Office on Friday named the victim as 55-year-old Grace Reiter-Rudolph, of Princeton. She was found dead inside the home March 13, and authorities said preliminary autopsy findings led them to believe it was a homicide. A person of interest was arrested days later in […]