The Durand-Arkansaw School Board has approved a revised plan to have in person learning five days a week starting in September. While students will be in the building, visitors will not be allowed, there will be Plexiglas barriers installed outdoor style tent type buildings will be built at caddie woodlawn school to help keep class sizes down to 15-1. According to Board President Bill Yingst, two tents will be used. The cost of the tent rental for the fall is approximately $15,000. Students and staff will be required to wear masks inside school building or using the bus transportation. Board members turned down the part of the plan that would have hired 16 new staff members to assist in virtual learning for those parents that felt uncomfortable sending their children to school. Yingst said the board wanted to first know how many students would be selecting the virtual learning before hiring new staff, so the district will be sending out a survey to parents asking them if their children will be using the virtual learning or in-person over the next week.
Motorists that use Hwy 25 have dealt with a very rough road in Dunn County over the last few years, but that is changing starting this week. On Monday, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation began a $3.6 million project to resurface 6.6 miles of Hwy 25 from the Dunn-Pepin County Line to the Red Cedar River near Downsville. During the project, expect travel delays as Hwy 25 will be reduced to one lane of traffic and the project is expected to be completed in November.
The Dunn county Health Department is notifying the public of a possible covide 19 exposure July 28th and 29th. Anyone that used a small local taxi service that only accepts cash may have been exposed to covid 19 and are experiencing symptoms, please call your health care provider to get tested for covid-19. Symptoms include cough, fever, sore throat, headache, body or muscle aches, fatigue,chills and new loss of taste or smell.
A man convicted of various sex crimes is set to be released in Chippewa County and will be homeless. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is set to release 43yr old Donald Rusaw on August 11, but according to Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczky, while Rusaw is to be under extended supervision until 2058 by the Department of Corrections, the DOC does not have a place for Rusaw to live so he will be homeless. In 2004, Rusaw was convicted of 1st degree sexual assault of a child, 2nd degree sexual assault of a cild and 17 counts of child pornography. He cannot be with kids without supervision and he cannot consume drugs. He is not allowed to be with his victims or go to parks, schools or day cares. He will be on GPS monitoring.
Authorities
in Waukesha County say a 38-year-old suspect in last month’s fatal
shooting in Sparta has been taken into custody. His name hasn’t
been released. Twenty-eight-year-old Damara Skenandore-Medina
was previously arrested and she is being held on a one-million-dollar
cash bond. Investigators think the Milwaukee man arrested
Monday was the shooter. He’s held on a probable charge of
first-degree intentional homicide. Sparta police think
61-year-old Anthony Koopman was killed June 11th during
a drug deal.
Wisconsin
Governor Tony Evers says there is “no secret plan” for him to
shut down in-person classes this fall. Evers says his statewide
mask mandate is aimed at helping slow the spread of the coronavirus,
but he says shutting down public schools would be much harder.
A news release from State Senator Steve Nass Monday said there are
growing indications the governor would prohibit all Wisconsin schools
from starting the new year with in-person classes. The
Republican Nass says he’s been hearing from education sources that
Evers will take the action within just a few days. Evers has
specifically denied those claims.
All signs are pointing to a record absentee voter turn-out in Wisconsin this year. The state elections commission says more than 300-thousand people have returned absentee ballots for next week's primary election. That's three times as many people who voted absentee in the 2018 primary... and four times as many as in the 2016 primary. Elections Commission administrator Meagan Wolfe says the numbers hint that many more people will vote absentee in November. She's expecting more than two-million people to vote absentee in the general election.
Minnesota is getting nearly one-and-a-half-million dollars from the Department of Justice to provide safe, stable housing and services to human trafficking victims. The Link, Face to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc., and Lutheran Social Services will share the federal funding. They will provide six to 24 months of transitional or short-term housing assistance, including rental, utilities or related expenses and relocation costs. The three organizations will help victims of human trafficking locate permanent housing, secure employment as well as occupational training and counseling. U-S Attorney Erica MacDonald said safe and stable housing is an integral step in the healing process and the path towards independence and a future free from exploitation.
Hundreds of poll workers are still needed for next week's primary election in Wisconsin. Even with record numbers of absentee ballots being mailed in, thousands of voters will turn out in person next Tuesday. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has been surveying municipal clerks for the past month about their poll worker needs, and has identified serious or critical shortages of 938 workers in 153 municipalities. Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin’s chief elections official, said they're working on a request for National Guard personnel to serve where critical shortages have been identified. The Governor’s office has not yet officially activated the Guard to do that. Concerns about COVID-19 are a big reason why many older poll workers are opting out.
Organizers of this month’s Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee have told most of the 15 thousand people who volunteered to help that they won’t be needed. Notices were sent out last week. Plans for the convention have been reduced to just two hours each night and there will be almost nobody meeting or speaking in the city. Host Committee C-E-O Raquel Filmanowicz says the number of volunteers being used has been cut back to keep people safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Jefferson County district attorney has cleared a Watertown police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in late May. D-A Monica J. Hall released a statement Monday saying the use of deadly force was lawful because Watertown Police Officer Pedro Gallegos was acting in self-defense. Evidence showed 32-year-old Thomas J. Sutherlin fired two shots from the vehicle which had been pulled over by the officer. Sutherlin died of a gunshot wound to the head.
Authorities in northwest Wisconsin are identifying the victims in deadly crash last Wednesday near Hayward. The Sawyer County Sheriff's Office says an S-U-V driven by 36-year-old Liset Ibarra from Milwaukee collided head-on with a car driven by 56-year-old Debra Cox of Hayward. Ibarra was airlifted to a Duluth, Minnesota hospital in stable condition. Deputies say Ibarra's two backseat passengers - 20-year-old Ezekiel Acevedo of Milwaukee and a ten-year-old boy - died at the scene. Eighteen-year-old Johanna Ibarra was also airlifted to a hospital and her condition is unknown. Cox was treated and released. The Wisconsin State Patrol and Sawyer County authorities are still investigating the collision.
Despite dire predictions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports there is no evidence people in Wisconsin got sick or died of the coronavirus due to the April election. A report issued last week said only 14 people who voted in-person in Milwaukee tested positive for the virus. State health officials say it is impossible to say definitively that they picked up the virus by going to the polls. Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary Andrea Palm had said people would get sick and die if the election was held. She has never walked back the comments.
The
Minnesota Voters Alliance is suing Governor Tim Walz in federal court
over his mask mandate. The group claims voters who wear face
coverings to the polls for next Tuesday's primary election will
violate a 1963 Minnesota law that makes it illegal to wear a mask in
public. Republican state Representative Tim Miller from
Prinsburg said,"What the governor is doing, both here and with
the emergency powers, is either unconstitutional or certainly against
the laws of the State of Minnesota." Thirty-three states
have some sort of mask requirement in place. A Ramsey County
judge extended changes in Minnesota's absentee ballot rules for the
November election. Monday's ruling means voters can submit
absentee ballots or mail-in ballots without a witness signature,
and ballots postmarked by November 3rd will be accepted within seven
days of the election.
Mall of America plans to re-open Nickelodeon Universe next week under COVID-19 safety protocols. The seven-acre indoor theme park is set to open Monday. Officials say the park will be limited to 250 people, visitors over age three will be required to wear a face covering, and tickets will have a two-hour time limit. Only ticketed guests will have access to walk through Nickelodeon Universe.
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