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Ripon College President Zach Messitte is resigning.  Messittee  says he will leave his position in January to pursue a new career opportunity and live closer to family and friends in Washington D.C.  Messitte has been president of Ripon College since 2012. 

Fond du Lac area residents are walking next month in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.  The annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s-Fond du Lac County will be held Saturday October 2 at Moraine Park Technical College.  Dan Weidert says he

Fond du Lac area residents are walking next month in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease.  The annual Walk to End Alzheimer’s-Fond du Lac County will be held Saturday October 2 at Moraine Park Technical College.  Dan Weidert

Funeral arrangements are pending for a Fond du Lac police officer who has died from COVID-19.  Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says officer Joseph Kurer was 26 years old and had been with the department since August 2018.  Kurer was a member

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health officials say the latest surge of COVID-19 infections due to the highly contagious delta variant has not yet peaked in the state. The seven-day average of new cases as of Tuesday

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a redistricting lawsuit supported by the Republican-controlled Legislature instead of requiring it to start in lower courts like most cases do. In a 4-3

The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says he is pleased a jury returned a guilty verdict in a drug overdose case.   A Fond  du Lac jury returned a guilty verdict last Friday against a Milwaukee man in

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin deer hunters are being urged by state wildlife officials to submit samples for chronic wasting disease, which is still spreading throughout the state after first being detected nearly 20 years ago. With

Yet another Fond  du Lac Ethics Board meeting has been scheduled.  The Fond du Lac Ethics Board is scheduled to meet October 1 in closed session to discuss an ethics complaint filed against an individual who has not been identified.  

The area unemployment rate held steady in August.   The Dodge County unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.3 percent.   The unemployment rate in Fond  du Lac County was 3.5 percent, the same as the month before.   The jobless rate in