The Durand-Arkansaw School board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion of the survey results from parents on re-opening for the fall, discussion of the WI Education Forward Plan and discussion and possible action on preliminary plans for the fall and an August re-opening plan. Tonights meeting will be held in the gym at Durand High School starting at 6pm.
One person is dead after a tractor accident in the Town of Colfax on Monday. According to the Dunn County Sheriffs Department, a 72yr old male was found pinned under the tire of a small older tractor. He had been using the tractor and a rotary mower on his property. He was extricated from under the tractor and med-flighted to Mayo-Eau Claire. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. That accident remains under investigation.
No one was reported injured when severe storms moved through Eau Claire County yesterday afternoon. Heavy rain and high winds brought down trees and power lines in the Augusta area. Some area roads were also flooded as a quick 4 inches of rain fell. The front responsible for the storms has moved off to the east and pleasant weather is expected for the next few day.
A
Chippewa Falls man is scheduled to appear in court to answer charges
he has sexually abused five children. Timothy Boehnen denies
the charges. He is on leave from his position at the University
of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Boehnen is the school’s risk
management director. He spent last weekend in the Eau Claire
County Jail. One of his alleged victims is five years old.
A not guilty plea has been entered on behalf of a Minnesota man charged in last month’s fatal shooting in downtown La Crosse. Thirty-one-year-old Timothy Young didn’t respond during a court hearing. Prosecutors say surveillance video shows him returning to a bar where he had been denied entry and shooting 19-year-old Anthony Fimple. Young reportedly had been involved in previous incidents at the bar before the June 27th shooting. He ran away but was caught a short time later.
A Winona County man is being extradited from La Crosse to southeastern Minnesota for the second-degree murder of his wife. Seventy-nine-year-old Joseph Wright of Dakota is accused of fatally stabbing his wife last Friday. The complaint says the 72-year-old woman suffered from dementia and that Wright attempted suicide by cutting his wrist after leaving a note that stated he could "not watch her suffer." Deputies responded to their apartment after Wright called to report he had killed his wife. Wright was transported to a hospital in La Crosse to be treated for the injuries. He was in the La Crosse County Jail pending his transfer to Winona County.
The Wisconsin Collegiate Conference, which is made up of satellite campuses of the main UW Four-Year schools, will not hold varsity athletic competitions during the upcoming school year. Officials say there would be too many logistical hurdles to overcome like cleaning and disinfecting arenas, providing proper athletic training, and testing student-athletes. The schools do intent to re-start competition in the fall of 2021 in sports like basketball, volleyball, and golf. Campuses impacted by the decision include those in Wausau, Marshfield, Sheboygan, Fox Valley, Richland, and Barron.
The
Madison Police Department is asking for help identifying persons of
interest in the June 24th attack of state Senator Tim Carpenter.
The Democratic lawmaker says he was trying to take a picture of a
group of protesters when he was assaulted a block from the Capitol.
Officers say three people rushed toward Carpenter and he fell to
ground before being beaten, punched and kicked by about ten people.
The pictures released by police appear to show three women in
face masks and two wearing bandannas. Carpenter said he was
expected to fully recover from his injuries following surgery.
Minnesota
Governor Tim Walz unveiled a 100-million-dollar statewide housing assistance
program to help prevent evictions and homelessness caused by the
COVID-19 pandemic. It's paid for with federal funds that
Congress authorized for coronavirus relief. Officials
expect Minnesotans will be able to start applying for assistance
through local grant administrators in the first part of August.
Governor Walz says the COVID-19 pandemic has hit families across the
state hard -- and stable housing is the key to safety, health and
well-being.
The government has been buying food boxes, restaurants have been reopening, and low cheese prices have driven up the export market. Those are some of the main reasons wholesale milk prices have almost doubled in recent weeks – from a five-year low of 13 dollars-a-hundredweight to 24 dollars. Wholesale cheese prices have tripled. Policy analysts expect the soaring prices to moderate into the fall. Farmers are being advised to use the growing return on their products to replenish cash reserves and pay off some debt. Despite all of that going on in the background, customers aren’t expected to notice very much change in store prices.
Governor Tony Evers says that if we all keep ourselves safe, with practices such as wearing masks in public and practicing social distancing, K-12 schools in Wisconsin will be able to open safely. Evers made the comments during a media conference call on Tuesday, as the Department of Health Services reported a single day record of 964 new confirmed cases of COVID-19.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) confirms that an invasive insect has been found in the state for the first time. The lily leaf beetle, which feeds on lilies and fritillaries, was spotted by a St. Paul resident. M-D-A staff then inspected the area and found an adult lily leaf beetle. Officials say the beetle is native to Europe and Asia and is currently also in Canada, the northeastern U-S and the states of Washington and Wisconsin. The beetles are a bright red color, and the eggs are reddish and laid in lines on the undersides of leaves. Minnesotans can report suspected lily leaf beetles to M-D-A's "Arrest the Pest" line.
Wisconsin employers say an inability to find workers is their number one issue during the coronavirus pandemic. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce surveyed 150 business owners. More than half say they can’t find enough people to fill their jobs and 40 percent say they have also had to make temporary or permanent staff reductions. The same survey finds 23 percent of employers saying they expect to end the current year in the red. Half believe they will show a profit, but less than last year.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office says it reached a settlement with Frontier Communications for deceptive, misleading and fraudulent practices. It requires Frontier to pay 750-thousand dollars in restitution for past harm to customers and to invest at least ten million dollars every four years to improve its broadband internet network. Frontier must also clearly disclose internet prices and exact speeds and terms of service to its customers. Frontier provides internet and telephone service to around 90-thousand customers mainly in Greater Minnesota. Customers can submit a claim on the Minnesota Attorney General's website or by calling Ellison's office.
Emergency responders in Grant County were able to rescue a 71-year-old man trapped in a grain bin Monday in a rural area near Stitzer. When crews arrived they found David Reiter buried up to his chest and unable to get out. He had been trapped for about two hours. Additional emergency crews were summoned and Reiter was eventually freed at about 10:20 a-m. He was said to be conscious and alert as he was taken to a hospital in Madison.
Grocery store customers are in for a new experience. When shopping at Pick ‘N Save or Metro Market stores in Wisconsin, customers will no longer be given coins as change. When you pay with cash you will be asked to either round up your bill for a charitable cause – or the change you would have received will be applied to your loyalty card and you can use it the next time you come in to buy groceries. There is apparently a nationwide coin shortage. The U-S Treasury says the coronavirus pandemic has caused the problem.
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