Month: May 2017

The vice president of the company that installed the hardwood gym floor at Fond du Lac High School says her company has been unfairly blamed for the failure of the gym floor, 17 years after it was first installed.  The Fond du Lac School Board recently voted to spend up to $350,000 to replace the floor this summer.   Vice president of Baseman Brothers, Vicki Marshall, says the company correctly […]

Friends of McDermott Park say they will remain active now that a master plan for the park has been approved by the Fond du Lac city council.  Friends member Janelle Anderson says the Public Works director has told the group one of the first things that will be done this spring is erecting signage on the south side of the park along Merrill Avenue.  Anderson says the group hopes the […]

A group of Fond du lac High School sports and entertainment marketing students is helping Fond du Lac’s newest baseball team kick off their inaugural season.    The students  have been working with local businesses and the Northwoods League Dock Spiders to organize and promote Family Day.  High School senior Emily Ziegler  says it was the class’s final project of the school year.  "We really want to bring out younger kids […]

An accident on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac slowed traffic Monday afternoon.  The two vehicle crash happened shortly after 3pm Monday on southbound 41 at Highway 151.   Nobody was injured.  Southbound 41 traffic was reduced to one lane until the accident scene was cleared shortly after 5:30pm Monday.

A Republican state senator from Fond du Lac is defending the governor’s troubled economic development agency despite a new critical audit .  A Democratic lawmaker says the agency hasn’t worked out.  The report from the Legislative Audit Bureau shows the agency is still struggling, failing to track jobs its awards are supposed to create and retain, handing out nearly $10 billion in bad loans over the last two years and […]

An Assembly committee plans to vote Tuesday on a revised bill that would punish students who disrupt speakers.  Rep. Jesse Kremer amended his bill Friday after critics said it was too vague.  The amended bill limits punishable behavior to violence or other disorderly conduct that disrupts free speech. The original bill would've punished a range of behaviors, including "boisterous" and "profane" conduct. Under the amendment, a student would be suspended after […]

A Fond du Lac man was safely rescued after getting stuck on his roof.  Firefighters were called to the scene at 164 E. Scott Street shortly before 7pm Sunday for a report of a man who was stuck on his roof and about to fall.  A fire crew was on the scene less than four minutes later and found the man hanging from the chimney near the peak of the […]

ELM GROVE, Wis. (AP) — Three people were injured when show ponies pulling a wagon in a Memorial Day parade in southeastern Wisconsin rushed onto a crowded sidewalk. Authorities say a 9-year-old boy and a 58-year-old woman who were struck by the carriage Monday in Elm Grove were taken to a hospital. The boy, who is from Racine, suffered a minor cut and stomach pain. The woman, of Brookfield, suffered […]