The upcoming school year will be the focus of a special meeting of the Durand-Arkansaw School Board tonight. The board will hear a presentation on the plans to re-open school and plans for extra-curricular activities. Tonights meeting begins at 6pm in the Board of Education Room at Durand High School. The meeting will also be held on Zoom starting at 6pm.
A Wabasha County Board member is resigning after an image comparing Minnesota's mask mandate to the Holocaust was posted on the Wabasha County G-O-P's Facebook page. State Republican officials initially believed the county's Facebook page had been hacked Monday, but party Chair Jennifer Carnahan said "the offensive picture was unfortunately posted by a board member who has resigned effective immediately at the party's request." The post was taken down by late Monday.
The Mondovi School District's Summer School Program will start next week. For parents sending their elementary school age children to summer school the district is asking you to send your child to school with a water bottle as the water fountains will be shut off. No visitors will be allowed in the school and the main entrance to the elementary school will be off limits due to construction. . The drop off location for elementary school students will be on Mill street and staff will be there to guide them into the building.
The Pierce County Sheriffs Department is reporting a telephone scam in that county. Residents have told the department scammers are calling them offering the potential victim millions of dollars in exchange for a few thousand dollars in Menard or Walmart Gift Cards. If you receive this call you are to just hang up.
Police in Rochester are investigating the discovery of a man's body near a motel dumpster. Officers say the victim had been staying at the Best Western since May while in town for a construction job. The 34-year-old man's name hasn't been released. Investigators found no evidence of physical trauma. They say he might have died from a medical issue or a drug overdose. Results of an autopsy are pending.
Over 23-thousand dollars in AmeriCorps funding will be going to help create new disaster relief groups across rural Wisconsin. Serve Wisconsin executive director Jeanne Duffy says effective assistance needs more than just a bunch of people showing up to help. Duffy says the funds will work to establish new volunteer disaster relief groups, and then bolster the ones that are already in place.
A
national report measuring school quality and safety gives Wisconsin
public schools high marks. WalletHub ranks Wisconsin schools
number eight in the country – second-best in the Midwest
to Minnesota. The Badger State ranked fifth in school quality
and number 24 in school safety. WalletHub researches say they
looked at 33 factors – including dropout rate, test
scores, bullying, youth incarceration rates and having a plan to deal
with the coronavirus pandemic. Massachusetts was number-one
overall and New Mexico brought up the rear.
Both
parties are zeroing in on Wisconsin as Election Day approaches.
We’re less than 100 days away from choosing the next president and
both parties realize that the Badger State is one of the few which
could be won by either side. The Biden campaign launched a new
ad Monday featuring a Wisconsin resident. Four states are
considered to be a toss-up when voters go to the polls in
November – Wisconsin, Arizona, Florida and North
Carolina. President Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 by less than 23
thousand votes.
A man spotted inciting violence during the George Floyd protests on Lake Street in May is believed to be a member of the Hell's Angels and an associate of the Aryan Cowboys biker gang. A search warrant application filed Monday in Hennepin County states that on May 27th, a man seen wearing all black and carrying an umbrella was spotted walking along the front of an AutoZone and smashing the windows with a sledgehammer. An officer on the scene says in the affidavit that the protests had been relatively peaceful to that point--but after the AutoZone's windows were smashed out, looting started and a fire was set.
Wisconsin wildlife officials say a spill that sent contaminated water into the Menominee River was an accident. The Department of Natural Resources says the partially-contaminated water came from the J-C-I Tyco plant, a facility that makes fire extinguishers near Marinette. Those extinguishers are made with PFAS chemicals. The D-N-R says a water main broke at the plant on Sunday night, which led to a back-up, and some of the water then flowed from the plant into the river.
Hungry for some good news, organizers of next month’s Democratic National Convention got another dose of bad Monday. At least three Wisconsin police departments won’t be sending personnel to work security at the event. The departments point to orders from the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission banning the use of tear gas and pepper spray during demonstrations. About one thousand officers were coming to help. Now, that may not happen and additional police departments may also back out. At least one chief says he respects the Fire and Police Commission’s decision, but removing those tools make it hard to keep convention-goers and law enforcement officers safe. .
Madison’s mayor says the city’s police union is “sowing division” at an important time when it should be stepping up to partner with city government. The Madison Professional Police Officers’ Association announced Monday its members had voted no-confidence in Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. Leadership said the vote comes after many months of frustration during the absence of effective leadership from her office. Rhodes-Conway says she asked the union three weeks ago for input in several areas – and got no response. She says she has to assume “they are unwilling to embrace change.”
A government watchdog group reports Republican lawmakers are winning the campaign fundraising race through the first half of the year. Wisconsin Democracy Campaign released its analysis Monday. Republican lawmakers have raised nearly twice as much money and their Democratic opponents – a little over one-point-eight million dollars. Over the same six-month period Democrats raised 950 thousand dollars. Counting outside efforts, a record topping seven million dollars has been raised so far this year.
The University of Wisconsin System plans to use an anonymous gift of two million dollars to improve its online learning approach for the fall semester. Some students complained about the program last spring. The system plans to use the money to train faculty and support staff in online teaching and supply students with laptops, tablets and hotspots. The system shut down its in-person classes last March when the coronavirus pandemic took over. It will reopen this fall with a mix of in-person classes and online offerings.
Things get complicated for travelers from Wisconsin who go to Chicago after Friday – very complicated. They will have to quarantine for 14 days after they arrive. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that Wisconsin will join the list of 18 states on the city’s quarantine list. Chicago’s travel order is evaluated every Tuesday and takes effect the following Friday. Wisconsin has had more than 49 thousand people test positive for COVID-19. The state is also being added to a Washington, D-C travel advisory.
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