The Durand-Arkansaw School Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include the swearing-in of board members, discussion and action on the renewal of the district health insurance plan, and reports from the district administrator and building administrators. The board will also go into closed session to discuss employee contracts for the upcoming year. Tonight's meeting begins at 6 in the board room at Durand-Arkansaw High School.
One Person was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Clifton Township on Monday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 65yr old Darla Ironside was traveling eastbound on Hwy 29 and slowing to make a left-hand turn onto 635th Avenue when her vehicle was hit by an eastbound vehicle driven by 18yr old Owen Wiltermuth of Prescott. Ironside was taken to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Wiltermuth was not injured.
It was not what shoppers at the Walmart in Menomonie were expecting on a Tuesday afternoon. Police shut the store down yesterday after getting reports of someone waving a knife at customers. No one was hurt, but two people were arrested. Menomonie Police say the lockdown was brief, and the store was able to reopen. Prosecutors in Dunn County are reviewing charges in the case.
A judge is giving an 18-year-old a second chance after he admitted to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl. The judge allowed Bradley Loew to enter into a deferred prosecution agreement, which means if he completes his community service, pays a 300-dollar fine, and doesn't have any contact with girls under 18-years-old, he can avoid a felony on his record. Loew admitted to forcing himself on the 15-year-old in a church parking lot on Halloween of 2021. She told the police she didn't want to, and asked him to stop. Loew told police he never heard that.
Add Menomonie to the list of No Mow May communities in Wisconsin. The city council yesterday approved a No Mow May pilot program. The idea is to let homeowners grow out their grass to help bees, butterflies, and other pollinators do their jobs. No Mow May lifts any local rules about the height of someone's lawn. Eau Claire is also a No Mow May community. Folks in Menomonie can sign-up for No Mow May until May 1st.
Wisconsin's governor has declared a State of Emergency over flooding concerns. Governor Evers yesterday signed an executive order that puts Wisconsin's emergency responders, and the National Guard on alert ahead of what could be statewide flooding. The governor says rivers and streams are rising because of recent rains and the melting snow. There are already road closures in, Durand, Eau Claire, and near Portage. The National Weather Service says the Chippewa River is almost at major flood stage in Durand and Wabasha. Forecasters say there's more rain in the forecast this weekend, so things could get worse.
A Necedah woman accused of killing her boyfriend in 2019 pleads guilty Friday. Crystal Pharis was originally charged with first-degree homicide, hiding a corpse, and four counts of bail jumping in the death of Jason Dailey. Prior to her scheduled trial Monday, court records say Pharis’ first-degree charge was amended to second-degree status. The other charges against her were dismissed. An autopsy from the Juneau County Medical Examiner’s Office listed Dailey’s cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head. Pharis will be sentenced in July.
The big hand of the government would be prohibited from banning the sale of gasoline-powered equipment or vehicles in Wisconsin, under a bill passed by the state Assembly on Tuesday. Governor Tony Evers said he doesn’t see the need for such a bill, signaling a likely veto should it pass the state Senate.
Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol have killed the largest conservation land purchase in state history. The legislature's Joint Finance Committee yesterday scuttled the Department of Natural Resources' plan to buy a huge chunk of the Pelican River Forest, east of Rhinelander. Adding the land to Wisconsin's conservation program would close it to development, logging, and even snowmobilers. Senator Mary Felzkowski says locals wanted to keep some of the land open, and accused the DNR of ignoring their wishes. State Rep. Mark Born says the DNR tried to force the project through. Democrats say adding the land to the conservation rolls would protect it from future misuse.
Cargill is ending a contract with a janitorial service that employed underage workers. The Minnetonka-based beef producer cut ties this week with Packers Sanitation Services after the cleaning service violated federal labor law. PSSI currently cleans 14 of Cargill's plants. The fallout comes from a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that revealed widespread violations of child labor laws at meatpacking plants in the Midwest.
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A 17-year-old boy was caught with a loaded gun outside a Waukesha high school. The boy who was arrested Friday near Waukesha North High School had what police say was a modified semi-automatic pistol and two magazines on him at the time. Waukesha Police Captain Dan Baumann tells Fox 6 Milwaukee he credits high school students for reporting the teen, who Bauman says was "tactical" in his movements. Baumann said the boy, who was not a student at the school, will be charged as an adult. Baumann said the boy, who was not a student at the school, will be charged as an adult.
Chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in another county. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported Monday that a wild, 3-year-old doe in southwestern Winnebago County was found to have CWD and was euthanized. It is the first confirmed wild deer to test positive in the county and because it was found within 10 miles of Waushara, Green Lake and Fond du Lac counties it means renewal of a state-mandated two-year baiting and feeding ban in those counties and a three-year ban in Winnebago County.
A report from Minnesota shows job vacancies fell last year across Minnesota -- but demand for workers did not. The report from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development says job vacancies in the second quarter of last year totaled 185-thousand -- down ten-and-a-third percent from the same quarter in 2021. Overall demand for workers remained high, especially in industries such as healthcare, manufacturing, retail and food service.
The latest push to get more teachers into some Wisconsin classrooms comes with just a nine thousand-dollar price tag. School Choice Wisconsin and Concordia University in West Allis on Monday announced the new Concordia Teaching and Learning Academy. It is a year-and-a-half long program designed to help people who already have bachelor's degrees to become teachers at private, choice schools. The students will both take classes and have one-on-one mentorships with current teachers to learn what it takes to become an educator. School Choice Wisconsin's Nicholas Kelly says it's a win-win for both new teachers, and the choice schools across the state who are facing educator shortages.
Two people were found dead in the Oneida County Forest Monday. A Facebook post from the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office says the bodies were found in the forest in the town of Enterprise, southeast of Rhinelander. The department adds they’ve joined with several other agencies, including the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, to investigate the deaths. However, no one is saying if the bodies are those of 17-year-old Aiden Grefe and 16-year-old Dakota Brown. The two missing Lincoln County teens were last seen Sunday morning in the town of Harrison, 15 minutes south of Rhinelander.
Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to end the state's requirement that state tourism officials give away cheese. A plan that is up for a vote in the State Assembly today would change the state law that requires the Department of Tourism hand out cheese at Wisconsin's tourist information centers. The state no longer operates those centers. The proposal would also repeal the requirement that Wisconsin feature its famous citizens in state tourism ads.
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