The
Mondovi City Council approved to have July 4th
celebrations. A kiddie parade will
be held at 12:30 then a grand parade will be at 1 with a fireworks
display starting at dusk. Those attending will be encouraged to
practice social distancing measures. Also at last nights meeting, it
was announced that Mirror Lake is now back to capacity and that the
fish stocking was also done by the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources.
No
one was injured in a one vehicle accident and fire in the town of
Stockholm yesterday. According to the Pepin County Sheriffs
Department, 20yr old Hope Schwen of Lake City was traveling westbound
on Hwy J when she went onto the gravel shoulder then over corrected
and lost control of her vehicle. She ended up in the south ditch
and the vehicle overturned. Schwen was able to get out of the
vehicle and a short time later the vehicle started on fire. Upon
arrival by the Lund Fire Department the car was fully engulfed in
flames and is believed to be a total loss.
The
Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include
a public hearing on the rezoning request from Kwik Trip for the land
where the Pepin County Highway Shop is currently located, discussion
and possible action on not opening the Tarrant Park Pool this year
due to the covid-19 pandemic and the council will go into closed
session to discuss the ambulance service director position. Tonights
meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall.
One
person was injured in a one vehicle roll over accident in Hartland
Township on Saturday. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs
Department, 19yr old Inez Perez of Dorchester, WI failed to negotiate
a curve and entered the south ditch of Hwy 10. The vehicle vaulted
over 510th
Street and came to rest in the ditch on 510th
street. Perez was transported to River Falls Area Hospital with
undetermined injuries.
University
of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has named Connie Foster as
the interim chancellor of UW-River Falls. Foster is a higher
education and leadership consultant who spent 23 years as a faculty
member, administrator, and interim chancellor at UW-River Falls.
She
was interim chancellor at UW-River Falls from August 2008 to July
2009 and prior to that was interim provost and vice president for
academic affairs. She has been the university’s Dean for the
College of Education and Professional Studies; Athletic Director;
Chair of the Department of Health and Human Performance; Professor of
Health and Human Performance; Women’s Athletic Director; and
Gymnastics Coach.
Foster
will replace Dean Van Galen effective July 1. Van Galen is stepping
down to become president of Missouri Southern State University in
Joplin, Mo.
A
Cadott woman is going to prison for three-and-a-half years for
selling the drugs that caused another woman to die. Carissa
Kasmeirski died of an overdose in March of last year. Her
boyfriend told investigators the drugs she used were bought from
Breana Heuer. The initial charge was reckless homicide, but she
entered a no-contest plea to endangering safety and selling meth as
part of a plea deal. She was sentenced in Chippewa County
Circuit Court Friday.
The
libraries in Elk Mound and Menomonie will be reopening on June 1st.
The library board approved the reopening with limitations. The
Menomonie library will be open Monday-through-Friday from 10am-6pm
while Elk Mound Library will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays from
10-6pm. No in person programming will be provided and public meeting
rooms will also be closed and the use of masks by customers is
strongly encouraged and all visitors are expected to practice safe
social distancing while in the building. Menomonie will be limited
to 20 individuals inside at a time while Elk Mound will be limited to
5.
Members
of the Wisconsin Elections Commission will discuss how a
500-thousand-dollar federal grant should be used when they meet by
teleconference this afternoon. Money from the CARES Act has
been approved for the purchase of sanitation supplies and personal
protective equipment for use at the state’s polling locations
during the fall election cycle. Commission members have said
they want more information before they give approval to grants to
local governments and an absentee voting educational mailing program
The
Wisconsin Supreme Court is allowing the state’s circuit courts to
resume in-person hearings and jury trials. Those courts will
have to create a plan protecting participants and observers from
coronavirus. The state Supreme Court suspended those activities
in March, telling the circuit courts to move them to a date after May
22nd.
The ban won’t be extended if the local courts prepare a plan to
clean frequently-touched surfaces and requiring everyone in the
courtroom to wear a mask.
Despite
COVID-19 concerns, the Oneida County Public Safety Committee voted
4-1 Tuesday, to approve a permit for July's Hodag Country Festival.
Organizers pledged to limit weekend wristbands to 16,000. County
board supervisor Mitch Ives compared that to typical traffic at the
areas big retailers. Billy
Fried was the only supervisor to vote against the permit. County
Health Department guidelines currently call for gatherings to be
limited to 50 people, and the next step only relaxes the guidance to
250 people. The festival opens July 9. About two-thirds of emails
received prior to the meeting favored cancelling, and no members of
the public who participated spoke in favor of issuing the permit.
The
coronavirus pandemic has cost Wisconsin tourism almost two billion
dollars. Tourism Secretary Sara Meaney predicts the losses will
continue through the summer. Meaney was interviewed on W-I-S-N
television’s “UPFRONT” show. She says Wisconsin isn’t
advertising for visitors to come to the state this summer. The
losses total one-point-seven billion dollars so far. She hopes
things will start to rebound by fall and winter.
In
many Wisconsin locations it looked just like a normal Memorial Day
weekend. People filled golf courses, parks, beaches and beer
gardens while the weather was nice outside. The city of
Milwaukee is still under a Safer at Home order and some Wisconsin
businesses still haven’t reopened, but that didn't do much to hold
the numbers down. Many of the people said it’s good to get
outside and great to get back to the things they did before the
coronavirus outbreak. Some health officials warn of a resulting
spike in COVID-19 cases on the way.
Leaders
of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa say they hope their
donation of more than a ton of fish will help tribal members and
Madeline Island communities during the coronavirus pandemic.
The donation was made over the Memorial Day holiday weekend as part
of the tribe’s “Community Fish Project.” The Band has
been buying two-thousand-180 pounds of fish from fishing boats over
the last three weeks. More than 300 pounds of whitefish were
donated to the Bayfield Food Shelf and the Madeline Island Food Shelf
Officials
with the Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles are estimating almost
250 thousand drivers in the state could renew their licenses online
this year. The D-M-V started a program earlier this month to
cut back on the number of in-person visits to state offices during
the coronavirus pandemic. To renew online, drivers must have a
regular Class-D license with no medical restrictions or further
deterioration of their vision. The D-M-V has also extended the
expiration date for about 80 thousand drivers who haven’t been able
to renew their licenses while the governor’s Safer at Home order
was in effect.
The
Board of Directors of Wisconsin
Rural Partners
has
made the difficult, but necessary decision, to not hold this year’s
Rural Summit on June 17-18 at Hotel Marshfield. Due
to a combination of the COVID-19 issues and the timing of the event
with starting the early stages of re-opening the State, the group
didn't want to conflict with the time people need to concentrate on
getting their livelihoods, personally & professionally, on track
again. The event will be moved to April 21-22, 2021 at the same
location. It will be structured the same and sessions will be created
to address the rural area's current & future concerns and needs.
Glazer-scented
candles will soon go on sale at a chain of convenience stores in
Wisconsin. Kwik Trip is working with a company in Eau Claire to
offer the candles. They will smell like fresh donuts while
burning. Smith and Company Candles owner Kenna Smith-Hoff says
she worked at Kwik Trip for three years and she grew up eating Glazer
donuts. The candles are said to be in pre-sales right now.
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