The Durand Swim club has begun its fundraising campaign. The Club is looking to raise $1.75 million dollars to be used toward the pool at Tarrant Park. During last nights Durand City Council meeting, council members received the informational packet on the fundraising. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says anyone wanting more information should contact city hall.. The City also approved the sale agreement with the Durand Arkansaw School District for the softball fields. That agreement now needs to be approved by the School Board.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on the community development block grant for the Public Facilities program, public hearings on water and wastewater utility rates, and discussion and discussion and action on an ordinance regarding camper and trailer parking regulations in the city. Tonights meeting begins at 6:30 at the Marten Center.
A 50-year-old Dunn County woman facing seven charges for allegedly stealing from a veterans home resident has made her first court appearance. Nola Tyrrell worked at the veterans home in Chippewa Falls until April. She’s accused of making fraudulent transactions on the victim’s credit union account. A debit card was requested and sent to the veterans home. Investigators say Tyrrell used that debit card to take more than 40 thousand dollars from the account between November 2019 and May.
A former Rusk County Employee pleaded guilty in Federal Court to charges of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and criminal asset forfeiture. The U.S. Attorney's office reported that 65yr old Sandra Stiner of Ladysmith plead guilty to the charges after federal prosecutors said she stole over $700,000 by submitting fake invoices to the county. Stiner had retired in 2019 and now faces a minimuim 2yrs and a maximum 20yrs in prison when sentenced in November.
A 55-year-old motorcyclist was killed Tuesday afternoon in crash near Stewartville. The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office says an S-U-V was stopped waiting to turn. The victim, Charles Sklavos of Rochester, was stopped on his motorcycle behind the S-U-V. Deputies say another S-U-V approached the motorcycle from behind and failed to stop and hit the motorcycle. Sklavos was thrown off the motorcycle and died at the scene. Investigators say there is no indication of intoxicated or distracted driving. A possible mechanical failure of the S-U-V is being investigated.
Officials at Beloit College say any student enrolled for the fall semester is eligible for a free fifth year of college classes. The school is making the offer due to the coronavirus pandemic. The special offer includes financial support programs to help those students keep pursuing their education without interruption. The additional semester must be taken immediately following the student’s eighth semester at Beloit.
Officials at Marquette University say plans have changed and no participants in next week’s Democratic National Convention will be staying in dorms. Less than a month ago the university had said about one-third of the dorms would be used for D-N-C guests. Now, Marquette says all the people planning to stay on its campus have canceled their reservations. The announcement comes a week after the party’s presumptive nominee, Joe Biden, decided not to come to Milwaukee to accept the Democratic Party nomination.
Minnesota authorities ran more than 27 thousand background checks for gun sales in July. That’s more than three times the number of checks in the same month last year. The coronavirus pandemic, rioting and civil unrest, and calls to defund police are pushing more people to buy firearms. One Oakdale store, Get Guns Now, reports sales are up by 400 percent. That business is struggling to keep up with demand when it tries to get a product to put on its shelves. There is a firearm and ammunition shortage right now.
After she had been missing for a day, three-year-old Abby Ladwig wandered out of the woods Tuesday near her family home in northwestern Wisconsin. Family members have driven from as far away as Lake Geneva to the child’s home in Winter when a neighbor started yelling they had found her. The girl first went missing when she followed her dog, Peanut, out of her family’s yard and into the woods. Hundreds of people took part in the search. Sawyer County Sheriff Doug Mrotek says at times searchers had to crawl through the brush as they looked. Abby had some scratches, a few bug bites and was a little dehydrated. She was taken to a hospital to be checked out, then released.
The U-S Department of Urban Housing and Development is sending three-point-eight million dollars to Wisconsin to help residents dealing with hardships during the coronavirus pandemic. Fifty-two public housing authorities will share the federal money. It will be used to help low-income families buy cleaning supplies, cover child care costs, and help with relocation expenses brought on by hospitalizations or quarantining.
The E-P-A administrator says the Lower Menominee River is being delisted as an area of concern. Wisconsin native Andrew Wheeler visited Green Bay Tuesday to meet with agricultural partners involved in improving the quality of the Great Lakes. Wheeler says restoring the health of the Great Lakes has been an important focus of the Trump administration. More than 43 million dollars in funding was used to restore the Lower Menominee River. The E-P-A head also visited Fincantieri Marine in Marinette Tuesday.
A poll released Tuesday shows more than two-thirds of Wisconsin residents support the requirement that face masks be required in all public places. The Marquette University Law School poll was conducted a few days after Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers issued a statewide mask mandate taking effect August 1st. Overall, 69 percent of the people responding to the poll agreed that masks should be required. There was a big split between the parties. Ninety-three percent of Democrats support the mandate, but only 43 percent of Republicans.
Wisconsin's unemployment backlog is now over 600 thousand claims. The Department of Workforce Development says more than 620-thousand claims are waiting to be processed. Some of them date all the way back to March. More than four-million people have been paid by Wisconsin's unemployment office since March, those payments total over three billion-dollars. Workforce Development officials have blamed the backlog on slow computers and input issues at their Madison office.
Scientists say an invasive beetle that damages lawns is showing up on Minneapolis’ south side. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture says a swarm of European chafer beetles was recently reported by a homeowner. That resident contacted an entomologist at the University of Minnesota – who then informed the M-D-A. The beetles can cause major damage to turfgrass. Home lawns, golf courses and turf growers could suffer significant impact if the beetle were to become entrenched in Minnesota.
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