The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion on a crossing walk signal at Washington and East Main Streets, a Mirror Lake Alge Control or remedy opportunity, and discussion and possible action on a weight restriction for city roads. Tonights meeting begins at 6pm at the Marten Center.
The Durand-Arkansaw School District has approved the purchase of the Tarrant Park Softball Field from the City of Durand. Superintendent Greg Doverspike says the bids for the first part of the project came in below budget. The District will wait till fall to bid out the concession stand and dugouts until later this fall in the hopes of lower lumber prices.
Students from 7 school districts were in Eau Claire yesterday voicing concerns that the Eau Claire City-County Health Department is preventing them from playing fall sports. Currently the Department has a public health order discouraging gatherings in groups of 50 or more people and prohibits groups of more than 100 indoors and 250 people outdoors. The Eau Claire School District moved fall sports to the spring, While Eau Claire Regis has not decided on fall sports. Students from Regis , Eau Claire, Altoona, Fall Creek, Osseo-Fairchild, Elk Mound, Mondovi and Bloomer were part of the protest. Meanwhile, Menomonie, Hudson, River Falls and Rice Lake have all approved fall sports.
First-degree reckless homicide charges have been filed against two New Richmond men in the shooting death of a 53-year-old victim last Thursday. Witnesses tell police Richard Rose rushed out of an apartment door saying, “They shot me,” before entering his own apartment. Police applied a tourniquet to his leg wound and he was taken to Westfields Hospital, but he died. The charges were filed in St. Croix County Circuit Court Monday against 36-year-old Joshua Cameron and 28-year-old Andrew Helmueller, who is sometimes called by the name Sovereignty Sovereign. Officers say Cameron repeatedly spit at officers after they used a taser on him while taking him into custody.
Owners of Wisconsin gun shops say they are being impacted by a nationwide shortage of ammunition. Marc-On Shooting in Lake Hallie is limiting purchases of ammunition for handguns and rifles. Many other Wisconsin shops say they have run out of stock for some weapons. Sales during the pandemic have tripled while production has been slowed. Many factories have shut down worldwide. Stocks of ammo aren’t expected to return to normal until sometime next year.
Some Madison-area elected officials raise eleventh hour concerns, with the University of Wisconsin's reopening plan. Move-in to campus dorms begins today. A letter sent Monday to Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Public Health Madison and Dane County Director Janel Heinrich raises concerns of an "inevitable outbreak" among students, and requests that nearly all classes move online, that most residence halls remain empty, and for public disclosure of what metrics would lead the university to cancel in-person instruction. Signing the letter; more than a third of the 37 Dane County supervisors, nearly half of the 20 member Madison Common Council, and three of the Madison School Board's seven members
The Minnesota D-N-R is adding three chronic wasting disease management areas this fall for hunters to drop off deer samples for testing. They are in Pope and Douglas, Pine and Dakota counties. C-W-D sampling is voluntary this year due to COVID-19 and social distancing guidelines. The D-N-R's Michelle Carstensen says "all self-service sampling stations, so basically... we collect it, either daily or every other day depending on the season, and extract the samples." C-W-D management areas remain active in southeastern Minnesota and the Brainerd area, but no longer in Meeker County.
The U-of-M Board of Regents today voted to push back the move in date for students living on campus at least two weeks. The vote in favor of the delay was eight-to-three. President Joan Gable came up with the plan in reaction to COVID-19 cases reported at universities around the country. The plan would apply to students on the Twin Cities, Duluth and Rochester campuses, but *not* Crookston or Morris. Under the approved plan, classes would start on time but would be totally on-line for at least the first two weeks of fall semester.
The St. Paul Bomb Squad was called to defuse a small bomb found in Prescott, Wisconsin Sunday morning. The suspicious package was reported shortly before 10:00 a-m. The area was evacuated to keep the public safe. The bomb squad arrived at about 1:20 p-m, made sure it was safe, and collected the device for evidence. People were allowed to return later in the afternoon, but a part of the area remained blocked off while crime scene techs were working.
The job opening for a Milwaukee police chief was posted a week-and-a-half ago – and nobody has applied. Milwaukee’s Fire and Police Commission said Friday it hasn’t received even one application in its nationwide search for a permanent police chief. Police union president Dale Borman says chiefs who have a job they like aren’t going to take the risk of coming to Milwaukee and “being booted out within a month or two.” The application process is scheduled to close September 11th. City leaders say there’s no reason to worry about filling the position yet.
Two hospitals in the Twin Cities metro area have been fined by the state for problems with the way they have protected their workers during the coronavirus pandemic. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reportedly made unannounced visits to seven hospitals in the region since May 5th. The Star Tribune has reported North Memorial Health in Robbinsdale and United Hospital in St. Paul have been fined 21 hundred dollars. Employees at the hospital had complained about inadequate safety equipment.
State auditors say Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction got it *almost* right with its back-to-school guidance. The Legislative Audit Bureau last week said the D-P-I failed to tell Wisconsin schools to see if they need to bargain with teachers’ unions over the change to online classes. The auditors also say D-P-I needed to be more clear about teacher and student absences during online learning. Many schools in Wisconsin are starting the year entirely online on September 1st.
The leader of the Catholic Church in south-central Wisconsin is asking Madison Catholic school families to push-back on an order to force them to start the school year online. Madison Bishop Donald Hying says the order from Public Health Madison & Dane County throws the start of the school year into disarray. Madison's Catholic schools were planning for in-person classes, many of them were going to start this week. Dane County's public health officials say the coronavirus is forcing all schools to start remotely.
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay held a special “drive-thru” commencement ceremony for seniors Saturday. School administrators had hoped to hold a traditional ceremony on campus this fall, but the coronavirus pandemic left too many uncertainties to plan such an event. About 200 students took part in the parade, receiving their diploma and having the opportunity to take a photo in their can-and-gown next to Chancellor Michael Alexander. Fall classes at U-W-G-B start in about two weeks, with most offerings online and reduced sizes for in-person classes.
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