The future of the Durand Royalty Program will be discussed tonight during an organizational meeting at Durand City Hall. Durand Improvement Group President Josie Perkovitch says in order to keep the program going, volunteers and a coordinator are needed. The Royalty Program has been on hold for the past few years due to the covid pandemic and lack of volunteers. If no coordinator or volunteers are found tonight, the royalty program will be officially ended. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at Durand City Hall.
The Durand City Council has approved the site plan for the new Dollar General Store in Durand. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the company still has to get the building plan approved by the state of Wisconsin, but once that was done, construction could begin in December. The new store will be located next to the current Family Dollar in the old McMahon Motors lot on Prospect Street.
The City of Mondovi has renewed the franchise agreement with Ntec for cable tv services in the city. The agreement is for 5yrs and will be reviewed annually instead of a 15yr agreement as before. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss says the council felt it was better to have a shorter agreement with the annual review in case there is new technology or services that could be available to city residents. Weiss says the city is very happy with the service Ntec has provided and looks forward to continuing to work with them.
The sheriff in Barron County is giving the all-clear after a gas leak yesterday at the local Jennie-O plant. The sheriff got a 911 call about 9:30 yesterday morning after someone at the plant accidentally mixed Anatox and Lysine, causing a poisonous gas. Two workers went to the hospital to be checked out. The sheriff's office closed Highway 8 for a while, but later opened the highway and said there was no longer a danger to the public.
UW-La Crosse is the latest UW System school to place Narcan on its campus. Boxes containing Narcan, which can reverse an opioid overdose, were installed last week at locations including the university's 10 residence halls. The Nalox-Zone boxes are equipped with sensors that will tell a sponsoring group when the containers have been opened, so they can be refilled quickly. Campus police officers also carry Narcan with them, but the boxes give people a more immediate chance to halt an overdose.
Wisconsin's local government associations are airing ads about election security heading into next week's election. The League of Wisconsin Municipalities, the Wisconsin Counties Association, and the Wisconsin Towns Association released the new ads yesterday. The idea is to reassure voters that local election managers are taking election security and election integrity very seriously. The League of Wisconsin Municipalities' Jerry Deschane says local election managers are our neighbors and friends and are doing the best they can with what he calls a "rigorous process."
Wisconsin has its first-ever conviction under its invasive species law. The state's Department of Natural Resources yesterday said a judge ordered the Louisiana Crawfish Company to pay over 34 thousand dollars in fines for shipping and selling red swamp crayfish. The crayfish are banned in Wisconsin because of the damage they may do to the state's waterways. The case started in 2020 when neighbors in Ozaukee County spotted a crayfish acting 'aggressively.' It apparently escaped from a crayfish boil at a nearby house. That touched off an investigation that ended with a guilty plea and a 34 thousand-dollar fine.
The legal back and forth over Milwaukee's old Northridge Mall isn't ending. Lawyers for the mall's owners yesterday appealed an order that cleared the way for demolition. Black Spruce Enterprises continues to fight efforts to raise the old mall, the company has said in the past that it plans to redevelop the site. Milwaukee, however, says the old mall is a hazard. The city's fire chief said someone could die because of the fires and other dangers inside the building.
Unionized food workers have reached a tentative agreement with Morrison Healthcare, which operates services at Mayo Clinic locations across the state. The deal concludes six months of negotiations for about 600 members of three separate unions. The union groups voted last week to ratify the contract, which would include a twelve-and-a-half percent raise for some. Union officials say the results of the vote will be released early this week.
Don't throw your Jack-O-Lanterns in the trash. Eau Claire County is asking people not to throw out their pumpkins after Halloween. County Recycling and Sustainability Coordinator Regan Watts said keeping pumpkins out of landfills is good for the environment. She says you can cook with un-carved pumpkins, and you can compost carved ones. Or, she said, you can toss them in the woods to give animals a Halloween treat of their own.
We Energies wants to expand its solar power program. The company recently switched on a plant in Sheboygan County that brought their total capacity up to 27 megawatts. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that WEC Energy Group, We Energies' parent company, is asking the Public Service Commission for permission to expand out to 60 megawatts of power. They're also hoping to include Wisconsin Public Service in the program to install another 20 megawatts.
An agreement to annex the Town of Madison was finalized yesterday. The dissolution of the Town of Madison merges the remaining 1.5 square miles of land with the neighboring Cities of Madison and Fitchburg. The agreement put into place in 2003 was reached to end boundary disputes between the three municipalities. Fitchburg adds roughly 1,400 residents, and Madison has about 5,000 new residents.
Grow it Forward in Manitowoc is the recipient of an Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production grant through the USDA. Executive Director Amber Daugs says the grant allowed Grow It Forward to add 24 new stand-alone hydroponic farms to their current 267 farm operation. They bought the farms from Fork Farms in Green Bay, which actually sold Grow it Forward their first hydroponic tower in 2020.
Senator Ron Johnson says, if he's reelected and Republicans regain control of the U.S. Senate, he’ll be in line to chair the permanent subcommittee on investigations – and he’d be busy. On WISNS's "UpFront," the Wisconsin Republican said he'd "be like a mosquito in a nudist colony" were he to chair the permanent subcommittee on investigations. Johnson, who's seeking a third term in his race against Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes, mentioned the nation's COVID response, the FBI, and the U.S. Department of Justice as areas for a possible investigation.
Green Bay Police report a teenager from Milwaukee was killed in a Sunday night traffic crash. Officers were dispatched at approximately 7:40 p.m. on a report of a collision involving at least three vehicles. Occupants of one of the involved vehicles had fled the scene when police arrived. A 17-year-old passenger was killed as a result of the crash. Initial reports indicate excessive speed to have been a factor.
A new study says Madison is one of the top cities in the country for veterans. WalletHub ranks Madison fourth for veterans compared to the 100 largest cities in the country. WalletHub says Madison also ranks in the top ten in two categories, veteran economy, and veteran employment. Madison's worst category is veteran health, ranking 25th. Milwaukee is much further down the list at 76th.
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