Month: August 2021

Nearly a week after severe thunderstorms knocked down trees and power lines the Ripon city administrator says clean-up efforts have gone really well.   City administrator Adam Sontagg says crews are working 12 hour shifts collecting debris from terraces.  "Compared to where we were last Thursday, Friday, I think we're in a really good spot,"  Sontagg told WFDL news.  "Over the weekend it seems like residents had gotten to work and […]

Ripon residents continue the clean-up effort this week several days after hurricane force straight line winds knocked down trees and power lines throughout the city.   Resident Paul Schoofs says he was without power for a couple of days.  "It was pretty scary,"  Schoofs told WFDL news.   "Those winds were awfully strong and the lightning was just remarkable."   Jason Mansmith says storm damage was widespread throughout the city.  "It's the loudest storm […]

The Fond du Lac County Veterans Service Officer has posted on his Facebook page that his wife was the person who died in a bicycle versus vehicle crash in Sheboygan County over the weekend.    In a Facebook post Rick Patton  said he and his wife Karen were riding bikes on Highway U near Greenbush Saturday morning when the crash occurred.    Karen Patton was 54.  Fond du Lac County employees  were notified Sunday.    According […]

HARTFORD, Wis. (AP) — One of two people injured when a small plane crashed in Washington County has died. Sheriff’s officials say the woman who later died and a man were hurt when their plane crashed in a cornfield Saturday west of the Hartford Municipal Airport. The man and woman were taken to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa and Aurora Medical Center in Summit, respectively, following the crash. The sheriff’s office […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have acquired reliever John Axford from the Toronto Blue Jays as the 38-year-old right-hander continues his comeback attempt. The Brewers are sending $1 to the Blue Jays. Axford hasn’t pitched in the major leagues since 2018 and began this season as a studio analyst on the Blue Jays’ television broadcast crew. He signed a minor league contract in June and went 1-0 with an […]

BOSTON (AP) — Landlords and tenants are rushing back to court and advocates are bracing for a wave of evictions following the end of the federal moratorium over the weekend. Most advocates expect evictions to build slowly over the coming weeks and months as the bureaucracy of removing people from their homes restarts Monday. The Biden administration announced Thursday it would allow the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium […]

A Campbellsport man was seriously injured in what authorities describe as an alcohol-related ATV crash.  The crash happened shortly before 6pm Sunday on Spring Street in the Village of Campbellsport.    A 52 year old Campbellsport man was flown by helicopter to  ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah.  Through investigation, officers on scene determined that speed and alcohol appear to be factors in the crash. The operator is facing charges of operating an ATV while intoxicated and […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities say two people were taken to area hospitals after a small plane crashed in Hartford. Washington County Sheriff’s Office says the plane crash was reported about 11:22 a.m. Saturday and occurred directly west of the Hartford Municipal Airport, in a cornfield. The Journal Sentinel reports the man and woman in the plane, whose names and ages were not  released were taken to separate hospitals with unknown […]