News 04.06.18
6 April 2018 News
One person is seriously injured following a two vehicle accident in Fond du Lac County. The accident happened Wednesday afternoon around 3:45 pm on State Highway 49 and Amity Road in the Town of Alto. Investigation shows a pickup truck traveling northbound on STH 49 was slowing down to turn right into a driveway when it was struck from behind by a northbound pickup truck on STH 49. The pickup that was struck overturned in the east ditch and came to rest on its driver’s side. The striking pickup truck came to rest in the northbound lane of STH 49. The driver and lone occupant of the struck pickup truck, 56-year-old Robert Greenfield of Waupun, had to be extricated from the vehicle. He was flown to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah with serious injuries. He was wearing a seat belt. The driver and lone occupant of the striking pickup truck, 29-year-old Kyle Zimdars of Brandon, was cited for inattentive driving and following too closely. He was not wearing a seat belt.
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Longtime Fond du Lac County Sheriff Mick Fink is not running for re-election. Fink filed his non-candidacy papers with the county clerk on Wednesday. The 62 year old Fink was first elected sheriff in 2006. Before that he served eight years as chief deputy. Fink will be leaving the office after more than 37 years in law enforcement. Fink says he feels very good about the office and the people who work there. Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt has filed a campaign registration statement to run for the office and deputy Mike Norton has filed a declaration of candidacy.
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Sargento Foods is expanding its production facility in Kiel. The cheese production company said Wednesday it plans to hire 25 to 40 new employees and add 41,500 square feet of production and warehouse space to the existing facility. The project also includes remodeling 7,000 square feet of current space. Construction is slated to begin in early April and is expected to be completed by the end of 2018. Sargento Foods also has facilities in Plymouth, Hilbert and Elkhart Lake.
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Foxconn Technology Group is setting some construction hiring targets for its manufacturing campus in Racine County. The construction management team wants 60 percent of the project to be done by Wisconsin companies. General contractor Gilbane is calling for 10 percent of the subcontractors to be based in Racine County and 10 percent to be female-, minority- or veteran-owned businesses. Construction of the $10 billion manufacturing complex is expected to generate 10,000 construction jobs each of the next four years. Foxconn has announced it plans to begin construction later this spring.
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State Department of Justice officials say they’ve collected about $1 million from polluters during the first quarter of the year. The agency issued a news release Thursday saying its Environmental Protection Unit obtained judgments in 12 cases, resulting in $226,770 in forfeitures and surcharges and another $774,000 for environmental improvement projects. The DOJ completed 49 environmental enforcement cases in all of 2017, resulting in $1.45 million in forfeitures and surcharges and $18.6 million for environmental projects. The new numbers come as Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel pushes back against environmentalists who have accused him of being too soft on polluters. Schimel faces Democrat Josh Kaul in November’s elections.
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