Markesan News

Vicki Smith and Matt Jahnke announce their engagement. They are the children of Steve and Linda Smith of Pipe and Andy and Deb Jahnke of Markesan.

Ethel Buchanan, 93 of Oshkosh, passed away Saturday June 28, 2008 at the Aurora Medical Center.

MARKESAN - CenturyTel Inc. has donated $15,000 to Advocap, a private, non-profit community action agency serving low-income residents in Green Lake, Fond du Lac and Winnebago counties.

All are invited to attend the sixth annual Meinder train open house at W10143 Highway AW on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. The depot museum features 1,600 feet of track and a HO-scale train layout.

Oakfield dominated the Trailways North this season and reached the state semifinals, but the Oaks didn't dominate the Trailways North's all-conference list.

Right now the property damage assessment sits at roughly two million dollars in Green Lake County, but that does not include Berlin and Princeton, cities that are still battling floodwaters.

The heavy rains and widespread flooding forced hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated sewage to be discharged into Wisconsin's waterways.

The Oakfield and Markesan baseball teams each had three players selected to the first team on the all-Trailways Conference North Division team.

The good news: the Fox River is expected to crest at 15.5 feet Tuesday in Berlin, stay level for about two days and then recede at a rate of about an inch per day.

Severely flooded intersections and shrill tornado sirens were the sights and sounds Thursday evening of a torrential rainstorm that pelted Sheboygan County but dealt its most severe blows to other parts of ...

Thunderstorms streamed across water-logged southern Wisconsin Thursday, spawning tornadoes and dumping heavy rain that promised to worsen the state's widespread flooding problems.

warning extended 5:30 p.m. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... GREEN LAKE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * AT 420 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF CAMBRIA...OR 10 MILES EAST OF PORTAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 53 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARKESAN BY 440 PM CDT... GREEN LAKE BY 450 PM CDT... RIPON BY 455 PM CDT... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM OR A TORNADO HAS BEEN SIGHTED. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK A STURDY SHELTER. IF YOU EXPERIENCE SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE...LARGE HAIL OR TORNADOES...PLEASE RELAY THAT INFORMATION TO 911. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4365 8926 4365 8923 4369

A city already overwhelmed with water was facing the burden of heavy traffic this morning as Highway 151 was closed due to flooding and traffic was detoured through downtown Columbus.

Wood County Phillip W. Powell Jr. and Mary B. Deyoung, both of Biron, June 21. Christopher J. Hahn, Hansen, and Rachel K. Kampf, Farmington, Minn., June 21.

Ripon's Stephanie Zambrowicz entered the WIAA Division 2 meet with the best sectional time in the 100 meter hurdles.

Berlin Memorial Hospital Collin Thomas, son of Tracy Marinelle and Zak House-Krause, was born May 19.

Bad weather can create delays in planting or damaged crops. Producers should immediately report crop losses to the Farm Service Agency , according to an FSA news release.

Veterans groups will host the following events to mark Memorial Day. The Fond du Lac Memorial Day Parade will begin at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26, at the corner of Guindon Boulevard and Main Street.

A week after Oshkosh Lourdes topped Central Wisconsin Christian for first at the Trailways North golf meet, CWC returned the favor by beating Lourdes at a Division 3 regional.

“It's homey and cozy and friendly”

With a mop in one hand and a huge bag of ice in the other Nancy Wszalek bustled about Goosebeary's Coffee and Quilt Shop Thursday afternoon like a woman on a mission. via Oshkosh Northwestern