The City of Durand may be hiring a new full-time police officer. The Durand Safety Committee passed a proposal recommending the city council approve hiring a new police officer. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says trying to hire part-time officers is just not working out. The new officer wouldn't return Durand Police to 24-hour-a-day service for the entire year. The Safety Committee will be meeting again to determine how scheduling would work with the new officer.
The City of Mondovi will be applying for a new grant being offered by the Buffalo County Health Department. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss says there are projects at Mirror Lake Park the city could use the grant for. The Buffalo County Health Department is offering $10,000 grants for park projects in Buffalo County.
A Wisconsin congressman is again being accused of inappropriate behavior. Politico reports that during a Wednesday White House briefing on the Israel/Hamas war, 3rd District Republican Derrick Van Orden cursed directly at the briefers, prompting loud boos in the room. Representative Dean Phillips shouted “Shame on you” — and Van Orden reportedly dropped an f-bomb on the Minnesota Democrat, who is Jewish. In a statement, Van Orden did not address the allegations but instead accused the Biden administration of minimizing Iran's role in the Hamas attack. Earlier this year, Senate leaders condemned Van Orden after he reportedly used profanity towards a group of Senate pages in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.
The plan is to use the Red Flint Sand And Gravel land as a new recreation area. Eau Claire County yesterday announced plans to turn the 230 acres into a place where people can swim, row, hike, bike, and just enjoy the outdoors. There's currently a bike trail on the land, but the county tends to add more. No one is saying when the work will begin, or just how much it will all cost.
No one is calling it a hack, instead Kwik Trip is calling it an "incident" that is causing some "challenges." The company yesterday said some stores may have problems with the Kwik Reward system, and there may be some product shortages and troubles with pricing. A Kwik Trip spokesperson did not say just what the issue is, or how long Kwik Trip has been dealing with it. Kwik Trip did ask people for patience as they work through the issue.
A boater is missing on a northwest Wisconsin lake. The search for a man who apparently went overboard on Cedar Lake began after a woman was pulled from the water Monday evening and said she had been on a boat with the man and her dog. Only the dog was found on the boat. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call around 5:30 pm from a homeowner who said a was boat circling in the water and a woman could be heard yelling for help.
There are new calls for new financial sanctions against Iran from some of Wisconsin's members of Congress. Democratic US Senator Tammy Baldwin yesterday said until she's convinced that Iran did not pay for Hamas's weekend attacks in Israel, she wants President Biden to refreeze the six billion dollars he unfroze to get back some American prisoners. Republican Congressman Bryan Steil also demanded yesterday that the president sanction Iran. Steil is also asking for a full accounting of just how the Biden Administration came to the decision to unfreeze the six billion dollars just released to Iran.
The future of PFAS regulation in Wisconsin is up in the air, after a pair of Republican Lawmakers yesterday accused the governor of negotiating in bad faith. State Senators Eric Wimberger and Robert Cowles yesterday said Governor Evers wants to have it all his way when it comes to rules for PFAS chemicals. The senators say they've been talking for months with the governor's office, and have agreed to about 80 percent of what the governor wants. A senate committee yesterday approved the PFAS rules that Wimberger and Cowles have written, but Governor Ever's office said he's not on board with a plan. The senators say without the governor's support, the new PFAS rules will simply die.
Wisconsin's Governor is asking to play a role in creating the State's new political maps. Governor Tony Evers yesterday asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court If he could intervene in the lawsuit over Wisconsin's current political maps. The governor says the people should get to choose their elected officials, and accuses the Republican-drawn maps of doing the opposite. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to hear arguments about new political maps next month. A number of progressive groups want the new liberal-majority court to redraw Wisconsin's political maps before next fall's elections.
A road construction project in Oshkosh is delayed after archeologists working the site found an extensive Native American village. Team members from the Cultural Resource Management program at UW Milwaukee have been digging beneath the roadbed in Menominee Park in compliance with state law since the start of the resurfacing project. Because of the area's Native American history the discovery was not unexpected. Archaeologists believe the village was used from AD 900 until about 1600. Teams are working on mapping out the village and collecting some of the deposits, some of which will be preserved once the road resurfacing project resumes.
Green warning lights are already in use on snow plows in Wisconsin. Now a bill at the Capitol would allow their use on utility, telecom and cooperative vehicles. In the Assembly Transportation Committee on Tuesday, Representative Scott Johnson asked the bill’s author Representative Calvin Callahan, whether the green lights really get drivers’ attention. The bill would allow crews to activate the green lights while doing things like restoring power or removing downed tree limbs.
An Illinois man pleads guilty to stalking his ex-girlfriend over a decade ago. Wendell Gist faced sexual assault charges for crimes between March 2011 and May 2012 in Baraboo. A criminal complaint states the 49-year-old Gist nearly drowned a woman in the bathtub of a West Baraboo motel, strangled her with a towel, and sexually assaulted her. The complaint says the victim came forward to authorities in 2020. The period of the stalking charge covered nearly eight years, ending in 2017. As part of the plea deal, the court dismissed five counts of first-degree sexual assault use of a dangerous weapon.
There is a warning about a spike in syphilis cases in Wisconsin. The state's Department of Health Services yesterday issued a memo to healthcare providers in the state warning them that syphilis cases are on the rise. DHS says syphilis cases jumped 19 percent from 2021 to 2022. DHS says the increase is concerning because more cases are showing up that are affecting babies, teens, and adult women. DHS' memo asks local doctors to be more aware, and offer more tests for syphilis.
The University of Minnesota is acquiring more land as it moves towards expanding in Rochester. The university paid just over two million dollars for a former YMCA parking lot on First Avenue Southwest yesterday. A spokesperson said the parcel was acquired with an eye toward planning for future facilities. The university already owns several parcels along First Avenue, but specific plans for the property have not been announced.
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