Month: January 2021

Committee assignments have been announced for the new session of congress.  Republican congressman Glenn Grothman’s committee assignments for the 117th session of congress  include the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, House Committee on Education and Labor and House Committee on the Budget.

A Dodge County business is one of five Main Street businesses from around the state named as finalists in the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Main Street Makeover Contest with have a chance to win up to $10,000 in upgrades for their storefronts.   Sweet Pea’s Pie of Mayville is one of the finalists.  The winning business will receive personalized technical assistance and up to $10,000 to implement recommended changes, which could include interior and […]

The city of  Ripon dispatch center is consolidating with the Fond du Lac County communications center.  After voting earlier this month to keep Ripon’s dispatch center separate, the Ripon Common Council reversed itself this week by voting in favor of consolidation.   Fond du Lac County  director of communications and emergency management Bobbie Hicken says Ripon is the final community in the county to join since the communications center was consolidated in 2004.  Hicken says the consolidation […]

A Fond du Lac man has been charged in the drug overdose death of a woman.  Thirty five year old Christopher Hoerth is charged with first degree reckless homicide and felony bail jumping.  He is accused of supplying fentanyl that led to the death of a woman in North Fond du Lac last May.

Nobody was injured in an apartment fire in Beaver Dam.  Shortly before 6:30pm Thursday firefighters were called to the 16 unit apartment building on Lakecrest Drive to find  flames shooting out of a second story apartment window.   The fire caused damage to the apartment unit and smoke damage throughout the building.  The cause of the fire is under investigation.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Navy wants Wisconsin officials to return an iconic badger statue that has stood outside the governor's Capitol office for more than 30 years. The statue was first affixed to the USS Wisconsin prior to World War I. It's sat outside the governor's office since 1989 and has become a high point of Capitol tours, with thousands rubbing its nose for good luck. State officials said […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report finds the Wisconsin Legislature's four campaign committees spent a record $12.1 million in 2020. The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign released an analysis Thursday that found the spending easily eclipsed the previous record of $8.4 million set in 2018. The Republican Assembly Campaign Committee led the way, spending a little more than $5 million. The Assembly Democratic Campaign Committee spent $3.14 million. The Committee to […]

The executive director of the League of Conservation Voters of Wisconsin says the Biden administration has taken steps in his first couple weeks in office that are diametrically opposed to his predecessor.  Kerry Schumann says she was pleased to see Biden take action to rejoin to Paris Climate Accord.  Schumann says Biden’s decision to revoke the Keystone XL pipeline’s federal permit shows his commitment to renewable energy.  Republicans argue the decision […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Black man whose arrest last summer ignited a violent protest in Madison, Wisconsin, has been sentenced to two years of probation and time served on a federal extortion charge. Devonere Johnson was accused of threatening to destroy a downtown business on June 22, during protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Johnson pleaded guilty to the extortion charge in November and was sentenced […]