Month: August 2017

Homan Auto is partnering with Smedema Trucking and SIA Insurance to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey. Help us by filling a semi trailer of goods for the victims. The trailer will be located across the street from our Chevrolet store on Gateway Drive in Waupun, but items can be dropped off at any of our locations (Waupun or Ripon). Needed items are as follows: Cleaning supplies Papertowels Mops Brooms Garbage […]

A former Fond du Lac resident and her children escaped their flooding home near Houston with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.  Eva Graczyk says the flood waters started to enter her home early Sunday morning and within a few hours it was chest high.  That’s when Graczyk and her five adopted children filled backpacks with dry clothes and food supplies, grabbed their pet dog  and set out […]

A new splashpad and design plans for a pavilion at Lakeside Park and a new residential park are included in the capital improvement plan for next year.  The proposed park projects were discussed at this week’s Fond du Lac Advisory Park Board meeting.  Public Works director Jordan Skiff says the splash pad would be built near the children’s play area at Lakeside Park.  Skiff says the Colonel James Megellas Park […]

ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — A custodian preparing a Wisconsin elementary school for the new year discovered an envelope with lunch money lost more than 30 years ago.  The envelope was found at West Elementary in Antigo, in an area where students hung their jackets and backpacks. The custodian had removed a bench in order to paint a wall and discovered the hidden envelope with $3.60 inside.   It was addressed […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former Wisconsin grave digger says he was fired because he tried to blow the whistle on drunken, stoned co-workers who smashed casket boxes with a backhoe. Reymond Blazys filed a lawsuit in Madison on Wednesday alleging his fellow grave diggers at Roselawn Memorial Park in Monona and Glenview Memorial Gardens in Ixonia were often drunk and high on marijuana in 2015 and 2016.  He alleged […]

A Democratic member of the legislature’s Joint Finance committee says an education funding plan approved this week doesn’t go far enough for public education.  State representative Gordon Hintz of Oshkosh voted against the plan that increases spending on K-12 schools by $639 million over the next two years.   "There's new money for schools after years of  being cut.  I know that the education community was just happy not to […]

The Waupun School administrator says the Waupun School District would fare well under a school funding proposal approved by the Joint Finance committee.  The plan would raise per pupil aid by $200 this year and $204 next year.  Waupun School administrator Tanya Olson says the increased aid will help the district balance its budget.  "For this year coming up it really doesn't change what we were expecting.  That means about […]

The Blood Center of Wisconsin is stepping up to help Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.  BloodCenter spokeswoman Fay Spano says all blood collections in Houston have been cancelled and donor centers are closed.  Spano says the BloodCenter of Wisconsin is shipping blood products this week.  "It really is a dire situation there,"  Spano told WFDL news.  "On behalf of BloodCenter of Wisconsin our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are […]

The Fond du Lac Salvation Army says financial resources is the greatest need for Hurricane Harvey victims.  Salvation Army spokesman Ron Jacobson says the Salvation Army has activated all of its U.S. and Canadian emergency disaster response assets.  Jacobson says Salvation Army mobile emergency food and hydration vehicles and personnel are moving through the affected areas and will continue until help is no longer needed.