Month: January 2022

A fire that started in a garbage container caused minor damage to a Fond du Lac garage over the weekend.  Shortly after 12;30pm Saturday firefighters were called to a residence on Springs Road for  a fire on the exterior of an attached garage.  A neighbor dialed 911 and alerted the residents who evacuated the home safely.   The fire was quickly extinguished with damage contained to the garage wall and attic above the garage.  Nobody was injured […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed more than a dozen individuals who it says falsely tried to declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election. The panel is demanding information and testimony from 14 people who the panel says met and submitted false Electoral College certificates from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. President Joe Biden won all seven […]

Fred’s Beds in downtown Mayville has been named the winner of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s annual Main Street Makeover Contest.  Janine and Jeff Andes opened their furniture shop in downtown Mayville in 2015.  The business hopes to use the makeover to reconfigure their shop to be more accessible to customers, improve storefront and signage visibility to downtown visitors, better showcase the variety of products available and enhance the shopping experience. Fred’s Beds […]

The Marshfield Medical Center-Beaver Dam Pharmacy is helping reduce prescription drug misuse with the installation of a medication disposal receptacle in its pharmacy, located on the first floor of the medical office building on the main hospital campus.  The project is a partnership between MMC-BD and the Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention  of Dodge County.  Customers and patients are able to bring in their unused medications to the MMC-BD Pharmacy and drop  them into the […]

The Fond du Lac Department of Public Works  says  the northbound lane of traffic on National Ave north of Division Street and the westbound lane of traffic on Merrill Avenue east of National Avenue are closed due to a water main break.   The lane closures are currently in place and expected to re-open at the end day, Tuesday February 1.

An arrest has been made in connection with a bank robbery in Dodge County.  Forty three year old Alan Schade of Columbus has been arrested for the robbery Wednesday afternoon at  the Horicon State Bank in Neosho.  This suspect is also suspected to be involved in a robbery that took place in Jefferson County. Schade was taken into custody Thursday evening and has been booked into the Dodge County Jail.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge has approved an agreement by lawyers to destroy the assault-style rifle that Kyle Rittenhouse used to kill two people and wound a third during a 2020 street protest in Wisconsin. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said the state crime lab would destroy the gun. Judge Bruce Schroeder, who presided over Rittenhouse’s trial, approved the agreement. Rittenhouse’s attorney had filed a motion asking prosecutors to […]

Fond du Lac police are continuing their investigation following a short vehicle chase early Friday morning.  It started shortly after 12:30am Friday when an officer attempted to make a traffic stop on a vehicle in the area of Sheboygan and South Marr Streets for an equipment violation.  The vehicle fled eastbound with speeds near 60 miles an hour, failing to stop for a stop sign at Sheboygan Street and S. Park Avenue and eventually […]