Month: April 2019

The city of Fond du Lac is planning a special electronic waste recycling program next month.  Public Works director Jordan Skiff tells WFDL news while the city usually refers residents to take e-waste to a local store for disposal,  the city will also offer a free collection event for city residents  in May.   Meanwhile, Skiff says the city is also planning a second one-day household hazardous waste collection at the […]

A Fond du Lac man was arrested for hit and run and drunken driving thanks to a citizen who followed the suspect.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police initially received a report Monday night of a hit and run on West Scott Street near the railroad tracks.  A short time later a citizen saw the vehicle strike a tree in the Walmart parking lot and followed the vehicle to […]

Waupun police over the Easter holiday weekend making several owi arrests.  Waupun deputy police chief Jeremy Rasch says officers made three owi arrests in a little more than three hour period over the Easter Holiday weekend and another OWI arrest Monday night.  "A lot of them are for minor traffic violations such as not having your lights on to no license plates on the vehicle, speeding violations,"  Rasch told WFDL […]

Bail was set at $3500 cash for a Chilton man charged in connection with a high speed chase over the Easter holiday weekend in Fond du Lac County.   Juan Hurtado-Olvera made his initial Fond du lac court appearance Wednesday on four counts of second degree recklessly endangering safety, eluding an officer and owi with a child passenger.  A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 3.    The chase started  Saturday afternoon […]

Two Fond du Lac public schools have been recoginized for their work in helping students who come from economically disadvantaged families.  Sabish Middle School and Riverside Elementary School have been named Title One Schools of Recognition.  Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says one of the things that stands out at Riverside is a program called Academic Parent-Teacher teams.  "Riverside has a different approach to parent-teacher conferences that involves parents coming into […]

The unemployment rate declined or stayed the same in all but ten Wisconsin counties last month.  The Dodge County unemployment rate was unchanged in March at 3.1 percent.   In Fond du Lac County The jobless rate dipped a tenth of a percent to 2.8 percent.   The unemployment rate stayed the same in the city of Fond du Lac at  2.8 percent.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says he holds no grudges with Republicans who control the Legislature, even as both sides continue to fight in court and have found little common ground early in the Democrat's administration. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday told The Associated Press that Evers should stop "obsessing" over what happened in the lame duck legislative session and move on to forge a working […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says Foxconn Technology Group has not told him what changes they want to see in their contract with the state for a project that could yield the company more than $4 billion in tax credits. Evers told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that "there have been no decisions made on exactly what's going to be changed."   Evers said Foxconn approached […]