Month: January 2018

In an announcement that doesn’t come as a surprise, Bon-Ton Stores is closing 42 stores including nine in Wisconsin including Younkers in the Fond du Lac Forest Mall.   The struggling retailer announced previously it intended to shut down stores this year as part of a turnaround plan for the company.  Bon-Ton has lost money for six  consecutive years and recently missed a debt payment.   In addition to Fond du Lac,  […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a garage in Mount Calvary.  At about 11:30am Wednesday firefighters were called to the Gregg Spanbauer residence at  600 Fond du Lac Street in the village of Mount Calvary.    The garage and its contents were destroyed.    Investigators say the fire started when Spanbauer  accidentally cut a gasoline line to a car he was repairing.

Two months after it was first reported the state Department of Workforce Development has issued a Closing and Mass Layoff notice for a Fond du Lac company.  Last November Saputo Cheese  announced it would be closing its cheese manufacturing facility in Fond du Lac by June 1, leaving 126 employees out of work.   DWD and the Fox Valley Workforce Development Board,  says it will offer Rapid Response services.  Fond du […]

A hearing will be held next week to determine if there is probable cause that convicted murderer Gerald Turner is a sexually violent person.  The  hearing was scheduled after the Wisconsin attorney general’s office filed a petition last Friday requesting that Turner be held in an institution under a mental health commitment.     If probable cause is found at the hearing a  trial could be scheduled.  Turner was convicted in the […]

Fond du Lac police are asking the public for help following a shooting incident last Friday night.  Police chief Bill Lamb says investigators have learned the shooting in the area of 5th Street, between South Main and Marr Streets followed an altercation between two individuals.  Lamb says investigators believe the shooter was aiming at the other individual  involved in the incident.  "Sounds like one individual might have been chasing another.  […]

There were fewer flu cases reported in Wisconsin last week, but officials say the season has still not  peaked.  Fond du lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the number of flu cases will remain high for 3-4 weeks after the season peaks.  "Absolutely, because it took a little bit for it to get up there,"  Mueller told WFDL news.   Mueller says its not too late to get a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is urging Wisconsin's doctors to help him pass a series of proposals the Republican incumbent says will help stabilize the state's health care market.  Walker on Tuesday pitched his plan to the Wisconsin Medical Society's "Doctor Day" meeting that brought hundreds of doctors to Madison.  Walker's plan calls for prohibiting insurance companies from denying coverage to someone with a pre-existing condition and getting […]

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin says she is still hopeful a deal will be reached this year on the Deferred  Action for Childhood Arrivals program.   Baldwin says the White House proposal  to save DACA by adding money for a border wall and new restrictions to legal immigration is not a fair deal.  "I think we need to take that challenge and work really hard to compromise and get a bipartisan solution […]

Matthew Smith, an English teacher at Fond du Lac High School, has been named a 2018 Distinguished Adviser by the National High School Journalism Teacher of the Year program, administered by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and cosponsored by the Dow Jones News Fund as well as the Poynter Institute and The Wall Street Journal.  Each year since 1960 the program has recognized one national Teacher of the Year as […]