Students in the Durand-Arkansaw School District are back in the building today. Superintendent Greg Doverspike says the next few days will be orientation for the students and staff. Doverspike is asking parents to be flexible and have patience this year as things for the district could change daily or even weekly due to the pandemic.
As orientation for students in the Durand Arkansaw School District begin today, the district along with other districts will be working with county health departments to prevent the spread of covid 19. Pepin County Health Officer Heidi Stewart says the local health officers developed a plan called tools for schools. The tools will also include prevention forms for parents along with a check list of symptoms parents can use to monitor their children and a list of frequently asked questions regarding covid 19 and school.
A 10yr old boy was injured in a bicycle vs vehicle accident in Spring Valley Tuesday. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 47yr old Joel Debrozzo was traveling northbound on Newman Avenue when his vehicle was struck by a 10 yr old on a bike who suddenly entered the intersection. The boy was taken to May Hospital in Menomonie with undetermined injures.
A Chippewa County woman is accused of stabbing her husband during an argument, then barricading herself in their home and refusing to surrender. Deputies say Karen Christenson showed them the knife through a window when she was asked to come out Monday. Her husband was found outside, taken to a hospital and treated and released for a stab wound to his chest. His name hasn’t been released. Deputies obtained a warrant, entered the home and took the woman into custody.
A man from Savage pleaded guilty to federal arson charges for setting a fire at a Dakota County government building in Apple Valley. The U-S Attorney's Office says say 32-year-old Fornandous Henderson and a co-defendant broke multiple windows with baseball bats and threw in Molotov cocktails, some of which ignited. Henderson's sentencing hearing will be scheduled for a later date.
The Illinois teenager accused of shooting two people to death and injuring a third in Kenosha Tuesday night has an extradition hearing Friday. He will appear in a Lake County, Illinois courtroom. Seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse apparently thought of himself as a militia member protecting life and property – according to interviews and social media posts. Wednesday night’s protests were reportedly peaceful after three nights of violence following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed in federal court against an Appleton police officer who shot two men to death during an incident at a bar three years ago. Jimmy Sanders was killed by Lieutenant Jay Steinke and Sanders was just a bystander. Steinke was responding to a call about a man in the bar who had fired a gunshot. That shooter was also killed. Sanders hadn’t been involved with the original complaint. The shooting happened in Jack’s Apple Pub in May 2017.
More than 70 firefighters from Minnesota are in California and five other western states helping in the battle against late-summer wildfires. The fires are doing major damage and threatening many areas. Leanne Langeberg with the Interagency Fire Center in Grand Rapids says the Minnesota crews can be doing a variety of efforts out there, from actually being on the ground wildland firefighters to those that are supporting incident management teams." Langeberg says Minnesota's response is "pretty typical" for this time of year. She says if there were drier conditions here, they'd be holding firefighters back, to be available in Minnesota if needed.
A 32-year-old Gays Mills man will serve six-and-a-half years in federal prison for possession of meth. Travis Johnson was sentenced Tuesday in U-S District Court in Madison. Johnson was caught last November when a Crawford County deputy spotted an S-U-V driving erratically. Although Johnson walked away, the deputy found him hiding in the patio of a nearby home. When Johnson’s car and the patio were searched, authorities found 162 grams of meth.
For the first time in ten years, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture surveyed the state’s dairy producers to get a current look at one of Wisconsin’s most important industries. The survey was developed in partnership with the University of Wisconsin’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, where Dr. Mark Stephenson is the Director of Dairy Policy Analysis. One of the biggest differences in this year’s survey compared to ten years ago is an expanding interest in robotic dairies. The surveys went out in March just before COVID-19 hit, and Stephenson feels the impact wouldn’t have changed many answers to the survey questions. They were more worried about getting enough responses to get an accurate picture of the Wisconsin dairy industry
The mother of two students attending a private school in Madison is questioning an order from Public Health Madison and Dane County requiring classes for grades three-through-12 to be entirely online. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered the director of the public health agency to file a response by Friday at 4:00 p-m. Order number nine went into effect Monday and it applied to all schools in the county. The petition filed with the state Supreme Court argues such an order can’t be applied to private schools. The children of Sara Lindsey James, the mother who filed the petition, are enrolled at Our Redeemer Lutheran School – which reopened with in-person classes last week.
Minnesota state officials say an agreement worth nearly 15 million dollars will double the state’s coronavirus testing capacity. The governor’s office says the partnership will be formed with a New Jersey-based national distributor of a rapid saliva test. The state also plans to establish a new laboratory to process the results. Minnesota officials say the new lab will add 30 thousand daily tests to the state’s current capacity of 20 thousand per day. It’s hoped the new facility will be operating in Oakdale by October.
Former Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton is recovering at home after a fall in his kitchen earlier this month. Dayton said on Facebook that he fell and hit his head August 4th and underwent surgery to relieve pressure from internal bleeding. Dayton said the prompt of action of medical professionals "saved my life and prevented any lasting damage. They have my deepest gratitude." Dayton returned home Tuesday following two weeks at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Center. He expects several more months of outpatient rehabilitation.
The coronavirus pandemic has slowed production at lumber mills, creating a growing demand and much higher prices. The owner of Wausau-based Modern Builders and Suppliers says his crews are working 60-to-65 hours-a-week and can’t keep up with the demand. A second Wausau company says it orders the plywood or O-S-B and the product never hits the ground, taken off by a buyer before it’s stacked inside the business.
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