Joel DeSpain signs off and hits the road
Joel DeSpain’s career took him from TV journalist to law enforcement public information officer.
May 6, 2021 8:49 AM Doug Moe
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Photo by Sharon Vanorny
When Joel DeSpain landed his first full-time job in journalism running WISC-TV News 3’s nascent Rock County bureau in the early 1980s his office was at the airport between Janesville and Beloit. The only people he saw regularly were a group of guys who lurked at the end of a long basement hallway. DeSpain thought they were airport maintenance, noting, “I couldn’t figure out why they wouldn’t talk to me.”
Obituary: Thomas Owen Monberg
CASTINE - Born in Hammond, Ind. to Ruth and Wilmer Monberg in April 1945; Thomas Owen was the youngest of four .
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Thomas Owen Monberg
CASTINE – Born in Hammond, Ind. to Ruth and Wilmer Monberg in April 1945; Thomas Owen was the youngest of four brothers, Fred, Bill, and John, and is the last to pass on.
‘Tommy’ , later known as ‘Tom’ and ‘T.O.”, grew up on Doty Street in Hammond in the same home where his father was born and would later die. The memories he shared (and the pictures prove) that he was a happy young man in the new days of television and decoder rings, backyard ice rinks, neighborhood baseball games and walks to church and school. He grew up spending his summers with his Uncle Bud on the Kankakee River in Indiana, fishing and farming for money (which he bragged he used to procure beer while underage). These were joyous days and part of him was never far from those years. Sadly, his life was upended at the age of 16
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FOND DU LAC - Summer is right around the corner and so is the start of various road construction projects planned for the city and throughout Fond du Lac County.
Of particular interest is the continuing State 23 expansion of 19 miles of roadway between Plymouth and Fond du Lac into a four-lane divided highway, with improvements made to numerous intersections along the way.
Work begins this spring on the Fond du Lac County side of the $171 million project that expands 5.34 miles of rural State 23 from the U.S. 151 Interchange to Seven Hills Road in the town of Empire.
The west section of the overall project adds a roundabout at State 23 and Wisconsin American Drive, a jug handle interchange with roundabouts at State 23 and County K, and a County K structure over State 23.