Month: July 2017

Beginning Monday, the North Fond du Lac Fire Department will be providing non-emergency patient transports.   Lieutenant of EMS Operations Adam Moriarty says those are  patients being released from either a hospital to a nursing home or to another hospital for additional specialty care services. Moriarty says the transport service will use  the department’s backup  ambulance and will not impact emergency 911 service in the village or the surrounding townships […]

PHILLIPS, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say six people aboard a Cessna airplane were killed when it crashed in northern Wisconsin.  The Price County Sheriff's Office says the airplane crashed at 3:21 a.m. Saturday near the city of Phillips.  All the crash victims were adults, but no names have been released.  The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, citing a Facebook post on the site of Tioga Elementary School in Bensenville, Illinois, said two of […]

The presidential commission looking for voter data from all the states says the panel wants only data that's publicly available.  President Donald Trump's Advisory Commission on  Election Integrity sent a letter to the states on Wednesday giving them two weeks to provide about a dozen points of voter data, including birthdates, Social Security numbers and any information about felony convictions.  The Wisconsin Elections Commission says most of the information in the state's […]

Nobody was injured and two people are in custody following a robbery in Fond du Lac.   Fond du Lac police were called to a report of a robbery at Heights Finance on Rickmeyer Drive shortly after 4:30pm Friday.   Police say a male suspect entered the business and demanded cash.  There was no threat of a weapon.   A short time later a car that matched the description  of the suspect’s […]

Governor Scott Walker announced Friday that ten Wisconsin counties including Fond du lac and Sheboygan have been designated disaster areas due to losses to winterkill and late freezes that hit alfalfa fields especially hard in the first five months of the year.   Farmers in those counties and 13 adjacent counties may be eligible for assistance from the USDA Farm Service Agency in the form of emergency loans.  United States […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin farmers are being asked to help North Dakota farmers struggling with the drought.  Donna Gilson is a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary. She tells Wisconsin Public Radio that North Dakota has seen high temperatures, high winds and little precipitation. Gilson says as a result, North Dakota ranchers don't have enough hay or usable pasture land for their cattle.  Unlike […]

The 6th annual Celebrate Waupun festival is underway.  Waupun Festivals board member Nick Rusch says  Celebrate Waupun kicked off Friday afternoon and runs through Sunday at Tanner Park.  Rusch says he is surprised at how big the event  has grown over the years.  "The amount of rides from the carnival,  the amount of volunteers, the amount of sponsorship dollars that Waupun Festvials has raised have all gone up this year," […]

This year’s Foundation for Ripon Medical Center Charity Golf Outing has raised nearly $21,000 to help support Ripon Medical Center medical imaging upgrades and the areas of greatest need.    Foundation for Ripon Medical Center executive director Holly Brenner says the money will help patients, their families and staff with comfortable and accommodating access to  medical imaging equipment at Ripon Medical Center.

Seventh Street from South Main Street to South Park Avenue Schedule:  May 2017 to September 2017 Description:  The project includes reconstruction of the sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, street, and lighting. July 3rd to July 7th: The utility contractor will continue installing storm sewer on Seventh Street from Marr Street toward S. Park Avenue.  Once the storm main is completed in this area storm laterals will be installed.  A […]