News 06.19.18
19 June 2018 News
No major storm damage is reported in Fond du Lac and Green Lake counties over the weekend. Fond du Lac County Emergency Management officials reported a tree down in Ripon and WE Energies had to replace a downed power line in the Walnut Road area. Green Lake County Emergency Management Director Gary Podoll says no storm or flood damage was reported in Green Lake County. The area did receive quite a bit of rain as storms moved through. In Columbia County a weak tornado was reported northeast of Poynette, but it left no significant damage behind.
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The state’s Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing today in Fond du Lac for the limited scope supplemental draft environmental impact statement being prepared for the State Highway 23 expansion project. The meeting will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the UW-Fond du Lac campus. A short presentation will be held at 6:30 with opportunities to comment throughout the hearing. Officials in Fond du Lac and Sheboygan County would like to see the 19-mile stretch of highway between Fond du Lac and Plymouth expanded to four lanes to accommodate increased traffic and make the road safer. A legal battle over the accuracy of a traffic count for the highway led to the delay of the initial project.
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Two Anaheim, California men suspected of forging and cloning 137 credit cards in Fond du Lac made their initial court appearances. Thirty-five-year-old Catalin Adrian Capanu and 26-year-old Mihai-Alexandru Preda are being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bonds. Police found the cloned credit cards and about $7,500 cash in their vehicle at the Marine Credit Union after responding to a call about suspicious activity at the credit union’s ATM. According to the criminal complaint Preda told investigators he and Capanu had come to Fond du Lac in a rental car and found the cards in the car. Later the Romanian immigrants said a woman was in charge of the operation. Each of the men is charged with one count of resisting arrest and 20 counts of credit card forgery. Both men will be back in court for preliminary hearings on Friday.
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Wisconsin summer travel plans aren’t expected to slow despite predictions that motorists in the state will be spending more for gasoline this summer, according to AAA Wisconsin. Wisconsin motorists are expected to spend an average of $65 more a month for gasoline this summer compared to last year. That could add up to $250 for the whole summer. About 4 percent of Wisconsin gas stations have gas at or above $3 a gallon this month, compared to no gas stations above that amount in June 2017. The increase in prices likely won’t reduce the number of summer trips, said Nick Jarmusz, the AAA Wisconsin director of public affairs. Instead, families may take shorter trips or choose to participate in free activities. Gas prices could continue to increase if demand remains high all summer, according to AAA. Gas prices could also be affected by OPEC production, hurricanes that could potentially shut down refineries and how much gasoline the U.S. exports to Mexico.
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