Month: January 2018

The Fond du Lac Alcohol Licensing committee is recommending approval of liquor licenses for two new Fond du lac restaurants and one existing restaurant.     At their meeting  Monday afternoon  the committee reviewed license  applications for the new owner of Backyard Bar and Grill, Paddy’s Pizza and  The Sweet and Salty Pig.   The owner of Ala Roma’s and Schmitty’s Oar House has purchased Backyard  from longtime owner Mark Trepanier.   Paddy’s Pizza […]

Firefighters are on the scene of a fire in Calumet County.  At about 3:30am Tuesday firefighters were called to an auto repair shop in Forest Junction.  That’s at the intersection of Highway 10 and Highway 32/57.   The highways are closed, due to the fire.

A Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain says there was a concerning trend among the 11 traffic fatalities in the county last year.  Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says more elderly drivers were killed in several of the crashes.  Waldschmidt says in seven of the crashes the average age of the driver was 78.  Waldschmidt says  the crashes raise the question about if some of the elderly drivers should have been […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group wants to tap 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan to meet its needs.  The city of Racine asked the state Department of Natural Resources for permission Monday to divert water from the lake primarily to serve the planned display panel factory and campus.  The permission is needed under an interstate agreement that guides water use in eight states that […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group's request to the Department of Natural Resources for an air emissions permit provides the first public glimpse at the scope of regulatory requirements the company will face in Wisconsin.  The department created a web page with information on environmental reviews the Taiwan-based company will face for its industrial campus in Mount Pleasant.  The filing includes details of the types of pollutants that will be […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A fired Lambeau Field food service employee accused of ramming several vehicles while chasing down a former co-worker and another man has pleaded not guilty.  Forty-year-old Chay Vang is facing seven charges, including recklessly endangering safety. He appeared for his arraignment Monday in Brown County Court.  Authorities say Vang was upset that he was fired after a previous argument with the co-worker. He went to […]

The retrial for an over the road trucker charged in the 1990 murder of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County is scheduled to start in a couple of weeks.  At a hearing Monday afternoon Fond du Lac judge Robert Wirtz agreed to allow testimony from Dennis Brantner’s ex girlfriend. Brantner was charged in the  murder of Berit Beck after  the state crime lab matched his fingerprints to prints […]

Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt Listening sessions:  Monday January 29 Oakfield Village Hall/Library 130 North Main Street Oakfield, WI 53065 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Taycheedah Town Hall W4295 Kiekhaefer Parkway Fond du Lac, WI 54937 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Fond du Lac City/County Building County Board Chambers 160 South Macy Street Fond du Lac, WI 54935 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

A  Fond du Lac High School student is okay after she apparently tried to hang herself at the school.    Shortly after 9:30am Monday rescue personnel were called for a report of a 16 year old girl who tried to hang herself in a school bathroom.  Fond du Lac Fire chief Pete O’Leary says the girl was conscious when paramedics arrived.  The School District says it was contacted by a parent […]