Eight women are running for this year’s Fond du Lac County Fairest of the Fair.
The winner will be crowned during a daylong event on Sunday, May 23, at Northwinds Supper Club on Highway 45 in Eden. Tickets aren’t available to the general public this year.
The winner is expected to attend all five days of the [...]
Cook and Belle, have been performing for the past 12 years at various fairs and festivals. Entertaining thousands of folks throughout the U.S., this energetic duo is definitely a crowd pleaser. “Do I Dare,” their latest recording, takes you on a vocal journey that is progressively driven. Mixing raw passion, soul [...]
WILMRA Lawnmower Races will hit the grandstand for the first time in 2010. Races are scheduled to start at 12:00pm (Noon) on Saturday, July 24, 2010. The Wisconsin Lawnmower Racing Association (WILMRA) started in the spring of 2005. WILMRA is a Local Chapter of the U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association (USLMRA). WILMA promotes safe events [...]
A truck pull will be part of the 2009 Fond du Lac County Fair today. This year’s event will be sponsored by ArgiLand Co-Op. The event will feature street altered trucks, two classes of 4×4 stock classes (one diesel-one gas), and new this year, a class for super stock trucks. As in past years, the [...]
38 Special was formed by neighborhood friends Don Barnes and Donnie Van
Zant in 1975 in Jacksonville, Florida. Donnie’s older brother Ronnie
was lead singer for the band Lynyrd Skynyrd until his demise in a
tragic airplane crash involving other members of the group and their
crew. Another brother, Johnny, is now Lynyrd Skynyrd’s lead singer.
“By the early 1980s, [...]
The 2009 AgriLand Co-op Tractor Pull will feature six classes in the Stock Farm Tractor Category. The pull will be held at 12:30 p.m., Saturday, July 18 at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds Grandstand.
Other featured classes will include: 13,500 lb. Special Farm Class and the 7,500 lb. Hobby Farm Class. The rules of the [...]
The Guess Who, the band that became Canada’s first international rock music superstars, began in 1962 in Winnipeg as Chad Allen & the Reflections. Including members Randy Bachman (guitar), Jim Kale (bass) and Garry Peterson (drums), Chad Allen and the Reflections had become Chad Allen and the Expressions by the time they recorded a cover [...]
“Phil Vassar had become a full-fledged country music star by the early 2000s, but he didn’t follow a typical career path for the country genre. For one thing, he played the piano in addition to singing and writing songs.
The piano isn’t a common lead instrument in country music; country entertainers have always been an itinerant [...]
Ashley Julka of Rosendale is the new Fond du Lac County Fairest of the Fair.
Julka, 19, was crowned Wednesday at the Fond du Lac County Fair. Elizabeth Drendel of Fond du Lac was first runner-up, followed by Rikki Ruplinger of Ruplinger of Mount Calvary.
Ashley Julka
Hometown: Rosendale
Age: 19
Parents: Randy and Marilyn Julka
Education: [...]
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