4/24/24 Hometown Broadcasting News Wednesday
24 April 2024 News
CAMPBELLSPORT MAN CHARGED WITH BESTALITY
A former Kewaskum Police Department school resource officer has been charged in Fond du Lac County court with bestiality. Steven Rosales of Campbellsport faces 5 felony charges including 3 counts of bestiality engaging in sexual contact with an animal. He is expected to make an initial court appearance on those charges today. The alleged acts spanned a four year period. The criminal complaint contains excerpts of text messages between Rosales and another person describing some of that activity between Rosales and a family dog. Rosales is also facing three felony charges in Washington County. He was fired from the Kewaskum Police Department for allegedly having a sexting relationship with a student. He made his initial appearance in the Washington County case Monday and has another hearing on May 28th.
SHOOTING INCIDENT IN NFDL
Police in North Fond du Lac are investigating a shooting incident that occurred in 700 block of Wisconsin Avenue Monday afternoon. A North Fond du Lac man called Fond du Lac County Dispatch just before 3 pm to report someone had taken a shot at him. Village Police and Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene almost immediately. The man told them he had an argument with someone in Fond du Lac and afterwards two men drove by his home in a vehicle. The passenger allegedly fired one shot. No one was injured. The victim and suspect know each other.
FORMER TAYCHEEDAH INMATE PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO KILLING CELLMATE
The 28-year-old former Taycheedah Correctional inmate charged with first degree intentional homicide for the death of her cellmate was arraigned in Fond du Lac County court Tuesday. Taylor Sanchez pled not guilty. She is suspected in the beating death of 68-year-old Cindy Schulz-Juedes who was found unresponsive in her cell last July. According to the criminal complaint Sanchez told officers she was hearing voices telling her to kill Schulz-Juedes. In August of 2022 Taylor Sanchez was sentenced to 18 months in prison for battery or threat to law enforcement in Kenosha, plus two more years for battery to an inmate. Sanchez is currently being held at the Wisconsin Resource Center in Oshkosh, a Department of Corrections-supervised living facility.
THERESA BUSINESS DAMAGED BY FIRE
Businesses in the Theresa area of Dodge County are rallying around a chocolate shop which had a fire early Tuesday morning that has closed the business until further notice. No one was hurt during the fire at Confections For Any Occasion on South Milwaukee Street in Theresa. Among the businesses rallying around the chocolate shop, Widmer’s Cheese Cellars is collecting monetary donations, RAW Grounds Coffee Company is donating 10 percent of its sales, and Mayville Piggly Wiggly is donating 5 percent of its sales this Saturday and Sunday. There is also a Go Fund Me effort trying to raise $10,000.
Fundraiser by Jessica Loomans : Confections for Any Occasion Fire (gofundme.com)
RIPON STREET PROJECTS PARTICIPATION APPROVED
The Ripon Common Council Monday night passed resolutions committing the city to future street improvement projects. The Council passed a resolution committing matching funds to the Hamburg/Hennie Street projects hoping the city will get a community development block grant for the project of $500,000 or more. One of the things the city needed for the grant was to commit its own share of funding which will be more than $1.3 million. The Council also approved an Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan for the next three years. It includes the St. Wenceslaus and Hamburg/Hennie Street projects. It also includes improvements for Houston Street. City Administrator Adam Sonntag says he included the Houston Street reconstruction project in the plan because the city was awarded a Municipal Street Improvement Supplemental Grant of $639,185 for the project which is more than half of the estimated cost of $1.27 million. Sonntag says the city was one of only 41 municipalities across the state to get that type of grant.
OSHKOSH PRATT TRAIL UPDATE
Officials in Oshkosh say reconstruction of Menominee Park’s Pratt Trail will likely be completed this fall. Work began last August but was delayed due to archaeological work that is taking place at the site. That work will run through the summer. An extensive Native American village that dates from circa AD 900 to 1600 is in the project area. The archaeological work is underway now through this summer within Menominee Park. The archaeologists will work in tandem with road construction crews, with work anticipated to be completed by this fall. Visitors to Menominee Park are asked to respect the restricted areas of the park to allow archaeological teams to complete their work.
PHONE WOES
Green Lake County Chief Deputy Sheriff Matt Vande Kolk asks residents to have patience while they switch over to a new 911 provider. He says they have experienced outages with their current provider Brightspeed over the past six to eight months including last week. He says in those instances a fiber optic line was cut or severed in another state but it also affected service in Wisconsin. He says it takes time to switch over to a new 911 provider and they are in the process of going with the ESInet Project from AT&T. Vande Kolk points out once that happens they will have a better system of redundancy and it will be more like a web rather than a straight line of information. They will have fiber and copper connection to the Sheriff’s Office which will allow them to better transition calls to other surrounding agencies if there is a local outage. Last week a fiber optic line was severed in Kansas which affected 911 and phone service in seven states.
The NG911 ESInet: A Complete Introduction (nga911.com)
HIRE ME NOW JOB EXPO THURSDAY
The Green Lake Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the Hire Me Now Job Expo at the Heidel House Hotel & Conference Center tomorrow. It is for students and adults looking for a job and businesses looking for summer or year-round help. The expo is open to students from 8th grade through college in the morning session, and adults in the afternoon session. Former Chamber Executive Director Lisa Meier says students can bring resumes and should dress nice.She says students can brush up on their job skills with breakout sessions, a job expo, and a student success panel. She says soft skills are important especially in the hospitality industry. For more information on the Hire Me Now Job Expo go to Visit Green Lake.com or contact the Green Lake Area Chamber of Commerce at 920-294-3231.
OPPORTUNITY GRANTS
One of the 27 bills authored or co-authored by State Senator Joan Ballweg signed into law this session has to do with opportunity grant funding. The state lawmaker from Markesan says they created a pool of $10 million for the funding to offset costs for hosting major events in Wisconsin. She says the funding is not meant to pay for the entire costs of staging an event that takes local, corporate, and state partnerships. She says Green Bay’s hosting of next year’s NFL Draft is one example. She says in the future Milwaukee would like to host an NBA All Star game and they would also like to bring the WWF to American Family Field for a WrestleMania event. Ballweg says the current season of the BRAVO network’s Top Chef was filmed in Wisconsin last summer and has been shining a nice light on the state. Top Chef can be seen on BRAVO tonight, check listings for the time.
CONGRESSMAN GROTHMAN TOWN HALL MEETINGS
Congressman Glenn Grothman will be holding two town hall meetings tomorrow in Columbia and Green Lake County. The 6th District Congressman will be at the Columbia County Highway Department in Wyocena from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. From 3:15 to 4:15 tomorrow afternoon he will be at the Berlin Town Hall on Willard Road in Berlin.
LWV RIPON AREA ANNUAL MEETING
The League of Women Voters of the Ripon Area will hold their 62nd Annual meeting on Saturday, May 4th. Former Fond du Lac County Board chairperson and Ripon College Professor Emeritus of Politics and Government Marty Farrell will give a presentation on Ranked Choice Voting. The meeting will be at 11:30 am at Knuth’s at 221 Watson Street. A salad and pizza buffet will be served. It is $20 per person. To RSVP email lwvriponarea@gmail.com or call 920-960-3397. Reservations must be made by next Wednesday. During the annual meeting a new local study will be proposed for membership vote. There will also be a vote on a recommendation to the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin on the topic of rural childcare.
Share |