Month: September 2019

Approximately 70 Agnesian HealthCare employees face relocation or job loss with the transfer of billing operations over the next year.  Agnesian says the workers will be transitioned to service centers in Madison and St. Louis over the next 10 months to streamline services and reduce duplication.  Hospital officials say they will work with affected employees to help them transition or find another position within Agnesian HealthCare or SSM Health.   Patient billing service representatives will still be […]

East Cotton Street from North Park Avenue to McKinley Street Schedule: May 2019 through September 2019 Description: The project includes reconstruction of the sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, street, and lighting. September 30 th to October 4 th : The grading contractor will be excavating terraces with the landscape contractor placing, seeding and mulching topsoil. Traffic Impacts: East Cotton Street is closed to through traffic. Residents, business owners, and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has asked Gov. Tony Evers to reschedule a congressional special election because the primary would fall on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.  Evers called the special election for Jan. 27 to fill Republican Sean Duffy's seat in the 7th District of northern Wisconsin. But the Republican speaker said in a letter to the Democratic governor Friday that that would require a primary […]

The State Supreme Court has denied a Fond du lac attorney’s petition  to have his license to practice law in Wisconsin reinstated.  Seven years ago the Supreme Court ordered that Christopher Mutschler’s  law license be revoked and ordered Mutschler to pay $250,000 in restitution for taking money from clients and not following through on the cases.  In denying reinstatement the court noted that Mutschler has made no restitution payments to the clients aggrieved by his misconduct.  […]

A second person has been convicted in connection with a series of credit card fraud and skimming incidents in Fond du Lac.   At a hearing Friday afternoon in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Preda Mihai Alexandru  pleaded guilty to six counts of  wire fraud and theft from a financial institution.  Forty other counts were dismissed and read into the record.  A pre-sentence investigation was ordered.  Meanwhile a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday for […]

Dodgeland school officials want public input on the future  for the 18 year old school.  School officials say residents in Dodgeland School District should expect a  community survey in the mail next month discussing the long range plan for the school.  Residents had an opportunity last week to meet with school officials and the architect.  Voters approved building the school in May of 2000 to replace a high school in Juneau, middle school in Reeseville, and elementary schools […]

The Fond du Lac city council has approved a short term  loan for the downtown Retlaw Hotel.  City council president Brian Kolstad says the $350,000 eight month loan will be used for the hotel  for operating expenses.  The loan is in addition to a $2.4 million tax increment district created by the city to help with a $35 million renovation project for the historic hotel.   The refurbished hotel reopened earlier this year under […]

WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — It's hard to regard Ellie as a menace.   When Greg Manteufel is frustrated or feeling down, she sits by him. At night, she sleeps under his covers. At dinner, she's there next to him, knowing he'll throw something her way. She belies the stereotype of the vicious pit bull.  "We love her like she's our daughter," he said of the dog.   And yet, Ellie may be […]

Make your list and check it twice.   AAA says starting this week is the best time to start booking your holiday flights.   State AAA spokesman  Nick Jarmuscz tells WFDL news the much anticipated Thanksgiving and Christmas Holidays may still be months away, but flight booking data from the last three years reveals that right now is the best booking window for air travel around the holidays.  Jarmuscz says by the end […]