Month: June 2017

Waupun officially has a new police chief.  Scott Louden was sworn in as chief at this week’s Waupun Common Council meeting.  The 38 year old Louden has been with the Waupun PD for 17 years.  He served as the deputy chief prior to his promotion to chief.  "I'm extremely proud of working for a great organization and a great community,"  Louden told WFDL news.  He replaces Dale Heeringa who retired […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislative leaders appeared to be coming together on a breakthrough deal that could include ways to raise revenue to pay for road construction without increasing gas taxes or vehicle registration fees.  Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Wednesday that "other things" were being considered to pay for roads besides raising the gas tax and higher vehicle registration fees. Assembly Republicans […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new poll shows support for paying higher taxes to support K-12 schools and health care, but not to finance road construction and repair.  The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday shows that those three areas were named as the top priority for the state budget. Republican lawmakers are still negotiating a new budget, with whether to raise taxes to pay for roads a major […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's approval rating is at its highest level since October 2014. The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday showed that 48 percent of respondents approve of the job Walker is doing while 48 percent disapprove. His approval rating was 45 percent in March and 42 percent in late October.  His rating is the same as it was at this point in July 2013 […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A visible piece of the Green Bay Packers' Titletown District has emerged on the 34-acre development near Lambeau Field.  Construction crews this week finished pouring the concrete for the sledding hill that rises 60 feet above the ground at its highest point. When the snow flies the Packers will provide the inner tubes for the ride down. Under the hill is an ice skating trail […]

A 21 year old Menomonee Falls man is in custody after crashing his car into a state patrol squad in Dodge County Tuesday afternoon.  The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a trooper was in pursit of the vehicle and attempted to stop the truck on Highway 33 east of Horicon.  The suspect eventually stopped in the traffic lane on County Highway S near County Highway TW, put the vehicle in […]

A bicyclist was seriously injured when he was struck by a truck in Dodge County.  The crash happened Tuesday afternoon at the intersection of Highway S and South Center Road.  Sixty seven year old Larry Bilke of Beaver Dam was transported to UW Hospital in Madison.  The truck driver was not injured.

A group of Fond du Lac area business, education and governmental leaders wants the county board to go on record supporting diversity.  The group has taken out a full page newspaper ad urging the county board to adopt a resolution that incorporates the spirit of the statement.  Fond du Lac Public Library board president, Melissa Kolstad, is one of 15 local leaders to sign the statement.  "For me, in order […]

The FBI has determined that bone fragments dug up from a yard 27 years ago are not those of a 5-year-old Campbellsport boy who vanished in 1983.  Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department Inspector Jim Risseeuw says the bones were determined to have come from animals. That leaves the disappearance of Bobby Joe Fritz still unsolved.  The boy was last seen playing outside his Campbellsport home with his siblings on May 14, 1983. […]