Month: October 2021

Consumer Credit Counseling Service is offering a  free $25 VISA Gift Card to individuals and families who struggle to meet their basic needs on a regular basis.  Eligible participants must complete a one-hour budget and credit counseling session and apply steps as identified during their session.   Participants must be residents of Fond du Lac County. This program will end on December 31.  Interested individuals must schedule an appointment by contacting CCCS at 800-350-CCCS (2227) and […]

A Fond du Lac man who left a crash scene last week with his infant daughter and a woman who was in the car with him  have been charged.  Bail was set Friday at $500 cash each for 24 year old Jordan Smack and 21 year old Cambri Sippel on charges that include party to the crime of first degree recklessly endangering safety.   Sippel is also charged with possession of drug paraphenalia.  […]

The two newest members of the North Fond du Lac School Board have been sworn into office. Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says Jonathan Goeckerman and Terry Jaeger were selected out of a field of 14 candidates.  They were administered the oath of office Friday and will attend their first board meeting Monday evening.  They replace Shawn Pollack and Paula Stettbacher who resigned last month.  Their terms expire in April.

A Fond du Lac street will be closed this week to replace a lead water service pipe.  Hickory Street between Forest Avenue and Division Street will be closed beginning  Monday, and remain closed until the end of day Friday, October 29.

After unseasonably mild temperatures to start fall, more normal temps settled in this week.   National Weather Service meteorologist Taylor Patterson says after several days in the upper 60s and low 70s,  high temps this week plummeted to the low 50s and upper 40s.  After a Frost Advisory was issued for our area Thursday night into Friday morning Patterson says the first widespread frost is expected Friday night into Saturday morning.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin did not identify any widespread fraud in the battleground state, which a key Republican legislative leader says shows that the state's elections are “safe and secure.” The report released Friday by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau did make dozens of recommendations on how the state might improve its elections. Republican state Sen. Robert Cowles, […]

Fond du Lac Police Chief Aaron Goldstein has officially been sworn into office.  Chief Goldstein was administered the oath of office during a pinning ceremony Thursday afternoon at the Radisson Hotel  and Conference Center in Fond du Lac.  The Fond du Lac Police Department officially named Goldstein to be the next chief September 7.  Goldstein has been with the Fond du Lac Police Department since 1998 and was appointed interim chief when Bill […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Republican state Rep. Adam Jarchow is running for attorney general, setting up a primary with Fond du Lac District Attorney Eric Toney. Jarchow told the Cap Times in a story published Thursday that he was running and that he hoped that other Republicans join him. The move comes two weeks after Ryan Owens, a University of Wisconsin law professor, dropped out of the race amid […]