The Plum City School Board will continue discussion of a possible fall referendum to allow the district to exceed the revenue limits by $500,000 per year for five years for non recurring purposes. The proposal was discussed during this months board meeting. Plum City School Superintendent Amy Vesperman says the proposal was brought up now to start the discussion. There are concerns that state aid will be reduced due to the covid 19 pandemic. Plum City also saw a $140,000 reduction in state aid in the last budget.
The Pepin County Board did approve the parameters for the sale of $9 million dollars in bonds to finance the highway shop project. The parameters included the amount not to exceed $9 million dollars along with how the money will be used for only the Highway Shop project and when the bonds will be put up for sale.
At the time it was described as the biggest drug bust in Eau Claire County history. The California man found with 67 pounds of cocaine in his U-Haul trailer has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Thirty-five-year-old Samuel Serrano was caught in April 2019 at the Menard’s distribution center in Eau Claire. He pleaded no contest to a charge of possession with intent to deliver cocaine. Investigators said the cocaine had a street value of more than three million dollars.
A group of researchers at UW-Madison are exploring methods that could turn wood waste and other biomass into new fuel additives and lubricants. Timothy Donohue with Great Lakes Bioenergy says the process would compliment the work that currently creates ethanol to power cars and engines. Donohue says he's hopeful that the process will help increase the amount of renewable energy that's available and reduce the need to refine and burn crude oil and gasoline.
One person was injured in a stabbing in Monroe County on Friday night. According to authorities, a fight broke out at Barron's Gentleman's Club near Sparta where a 30yr old man from LaCrescent, MN was stabbed an the suspect had fled. The victim was taken to Sparta Mayo for treatment. The suspect, 35yr old Samuel Walker of Whitesburg, Tennessee was located in the woods and arrested.
No firm numbers have been released, but Marquette University is reporting about one-third of its dorm rooms will be filled with contractors and Democratic National Convention staff next month. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the event starting August 17th to dramatically reduce its presence in Milwaukee. Eighty-five rooms at Milwaukee School of Engineering will also be dedicated to D-N-C people. The rooms were reserved when convention organizers feared Milwaukee wouldn’t have enough hotel rooms for the expected 50 thousand visitors. Hotels in the city’s downtown area have already been devastated by the cancellation of Summerfest, Milwaukee Brewers games and other events. They’re usually near capacity during the summer months.
Leaders of the village of Union Center are telling residents not to drink the water. They say someone may have tampered with the water reservoir and the village water supply could be contaminated. Residents are being told not to use tap water for drinking or cooking until further notice on the village Facebook page. That notice should happen early this week. Until then, people are being advised to only use bottled water.
A severe weather system late Saturday night into Sunday drenched parts of Minnesota from south of the metro to the Iowa border. By 7:00 a-m Sunday the National Weather Service reported totals of more than eight inches of rain in St. Peter and Mankato. Fairfax and St. Clair picked up around seven inches, while New Ulm checked in at just over five inches. There were instances of flash flooding associated with the rainfall.
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Wisconsin K-through-12 schools will be able to apply for part of
46-point-six million dollars of federal funding coming to the state
through the CARES Act. A press release from the governor’s
office says the “funding stream will help support students,
teachers and parents who are navigating uncertainty” during the
pandemic. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is
helping the governor’s office prioritize schools most-impacted by
COVID-19. The three tribal schools in the state will receive
the same per-pupil payment as the other school districts.
Wisconsin
veterans say they have raised the money needed to clean up the
Veterans Museum in Madison – but they say the state is stalling the
work. V-F-W State Commander Jason Johns sent an open letter to
state leaders demanding the work be done almost two months after
riots damaged the building. A group of volunteers raised enough
money to remove graffiti from the outside and restore damaged
exhibits inside. The Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation and
the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs are said to be resisting
the clean-up because the museum building is privately-owned.
City officials in Green Bay are receiving threats after passing a face mask order. Police Chief Andrew Smith wrote an email, “some appear to be outright threats, others insinuate that some harm will come [to] one or more of us because of our action on that face mask ordinance.” Smith said detectives are reviewing threatening emails to determine if any could result in criminal charges and will forward those to the district attorney’s office. He plans to contact the F-B-I if necessary. City leaders are asked to be aware of their surroundings and forward suspicious emails to the police department. Green Bay’s mask ordinance takes effect Monday.
Door County is now requiring face masks in all public places. The Door County Health Department issued the ”Emergency Advisory Requiring Face Coverings” on Thursday. County Health Officer Susan Powers said, “the increasing numbers of confirmed cases in Door County and across the state, as well as the multitude of visitors coming to our area, made it imperative that we all wear a face covering in public.” She says the advisory should not be used as justification to harass or harm another person who is either wearing or not wearing a face covering. The health department also says public gatherings and events “are considered high risk and should be avoided.”
Wisconsin cities like Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Racine already have face mask mandates in effect. The rest of the state could soon follow suit. Governor Tony Evers says he is considering a statewide mandate for mask use as a way to counter the increasing number of coronavirus cases. Evers says he is still unsure of his options based on the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling that ended his Safer at Home order.
Minnesotans
are now required to wear face coverings inside public places to help
prevent spread of the coronavirus. The statewide order went
into effect Saturday. Governor Tim Walz is urging people to be
kind to each other. The governor said, “we don’t need mask
battles on the streets. We don’t need to shame people.”
Walz called the mask requirement the “absolute economic key to
making sure that businesses are open and stay open."
Republicans are highly critical of the governor's move, saying areas
of Minnesota most at-risk already have mask mandates. G-O-P
Senate candidate Jason Lewis claims that Minnesotans don’t support
it and “wanted to be treated as adults.”
U-S Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson are working together to have a new submarine be named for Wisconsin. The Democrat Baldwin and Republican Johnson want to honor the state’s historical connection with the U-S Navy. They introduced a Senate Resolution urging the Secretary of the Navy to name one of the next available Virginia class submarines the “U-S-S Wisconsin.” They point to shipbuilding during World War Two in Manitowoc and more recently in Marinette. The last Navy vessel to carry the name the U-S-S Wisconsin served in every major conflict between 1944 and when it was decommissioned in 1991.
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