The Durand-Arkansaw School Board is holding a special meeting tonight. The agenda was posted on the district website yesterday afternoon. The board will go into closed session to discuss future staff planning. After the closed session, the board will return to open session and take action on items discussed during the closed session. That meeting will be at 6pm at the board room at Durand High School. In the agenda viewed by WRDN, there was no mention that the open sessions of the meeting would be available on zoom.
Students of the class of the Plum City Class of 2020 will receive money back from the canceled senior class trip. During last nights Plum City School Board meeting, the board approved a plan where all class of 2020 students would receive their class dues back and then any money left over would be equally distributed to the class for educational purposes. Meanwhile, the board approved the plan for fall sports where the non contact sports could begin in August, while football and volleyball would start after September 7th. There would be 6 football and 6 volleyball games on the schedule and only conference games would be held. The plan approved is similar to the plan approved by other Dunn-St. Croix conference teams.
Even
with the pandemic its been a busy summer for the Pepin County
Sheriffs Department. Sheriff Joel Wener says its been one of the
busiest summers with incidents where med flight helicopters have been
called in. Pepin
County had its first motorcycle fatality since 2018, after 71yr old
Charles t Hooker died of his injuries received in a motorcycle vs
deer accident on July 29th.
As school districts across grapple over holding in person, virtual or a hybrid form of learning, they are looking at different metrics to make that decision. One of those metrics is the burden level for covid 19 a county is experiencing. Pepin County Health Officer Heidi Stewart says she has been asking the state to look at the burden level and how that could affect rural counties like Pepin. Stewart says the state is giving consideration to her requests to look at other issues surrounding positive cases including location and circumstances surrounding cases, close contacts and who that case may be impacting before adjusting a county's burden level.
A Fall Creek mom admits she used heroin while her child was in the car. Thirty-five-year-old Lindsay Nohr and 41-year-old Robert Metzenbauer are both charged with child neglect in Eau Claire County. Police officers were dispatched to a location earlier this year when Metzenbauer called for help. He said he found his girlfriend unresponsive, but she later admitted the two of them were together when she overdosed on heroin. Nohr also admitted she knew it was wrong to be doing drugs with her child in the car.
Health officials in La Crosse County report a possible COVID-19 reinfection case. Scientists studying the virus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working on several similar cases to determine if they are a reinfection or a flare-up of a previous infection. The person involved in the La Crosse County case first tested positive more than three months ago. The health department says the local patient’s symptoms were not the same the second time the person became sick. The C-D-C hasn’t confirmed any cases of COVID-19 reinfection so far, but scientists are investigating the possibility.
Green Bay police have arrested a 20-year-old man for beating another man wearing a mask outside a grocery store Monday night. The incident happened at Festival Foods at about 8:30 p-m. When Vadim Sinitsky commented on the mask worn by the second man, the victim walked to Sinitsky’s car and reportedly said, “What did you say cupcake?” He then told Sinitsky he had to wear a mask because his wife has cancer. A witness told police about watching Sinitsky grab a metal bar, force the victim’s car door open, and begin beating the other man on the arm and leg while yelling at him. Police say Sinitsky was also combative as they took him into custody.
There will not be a voter referendum in November on a proposal to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a new "Community Safety and Violence Prevention" agency. The Charter Commission voted late Wednesday to study the issue further. Commissioner Toni Newborn voted against the delay, saying" a lot of our black and brown and indigenous and Latinx communities have been abused and/or have died at the hands of police in this country, and in this city for far too long." Commissioner Gregory Abbott said the issue deserves much more scrutiny and discussion and "the question is not whether a referendum should be held, but when it should be held."
A Rochester man described as a career criminal will spend 15 years in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms. Thrity-eight-year-old Charles Gayles has a criminal record in Olmsted County that includes multiple felony drug offenses and two robbery convictions. U-S Attorney Erica MacDonald said her office is focused on "taking armed criminals off the streets, in the Twin Cities and in greater Minnesota." Gayles was arrested after a May 2019 police chase in Rochester. A search of the car turned up marijuana, two loaded handgun magazines and a 32-round magazine. Gayles is prohibited from having guns as a convicted felon.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention to protect public health. Biden will instead address the nation and accept the Democratic nomination from his home state of Delaware. The D-N-C Committee said the decision was made "in order to prevent risking the health of our host community" as well as others necessary to orchestrate the event. Other speakers who had been planning to come to Milwaukee will not travel to the city. D-N-C Chair Tom Perez said they have "followed the science" and are continuing to make adjustments in order to protect lives.
Governor Tony Evers has announced Wednesday that personnel from the Wisconsin National Guard will assist in next week's primary elections. Evers office says a yet-to-be determined number of Guard members will mobilize to state active duty, to support the Wisconsin Elections Commission and clerks across the state. The Guard is working with the Elections Commission to determine how many members would be available to work the polls. The Elections Commission reported Tuesday that there was a shortage of 900 poll workers, in more than 150 municipalities.
The Madison City Council is again discussing help for local businesses that suffered damage during this year's rioting. How much money a business gets will depend on where it is located and the skin color of its owner. City council members delayed a vote on spending 60 thousand dollars to help State Street businesses at its Tuesday meeting. Originally, the city was going to share 250 thousand dollars with those businesses, but the idea was killed when the area was described as the “whitest neighborhood” in Madison. The council could vote on a proposal to spend 750 thousand dollars to help people of color who want to open or expand their businesses.
Republican leadership in the state Assembly are directly lobbying school districts into reopening. That letter sent out to school superintendents was obtained by UpNorthNews. Signed by 47 Assembly Republicans, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Majority leader Jim Steinike, the letter tells superintendents that they have an obligation to educate students, and that virtual schooling may not meet that obligation in some cases. It also suggests that if districts don't reopen to students the GOP will call for the Department of Public Instruction to examine greater open enrollment, which would divert school taxes away from individual districts. Speaker Vos did not respond to a request for comment, and Representative Stieneke's office said he was not available.
Rural areas of Minnesota and the country are seeing some of the highest suicide rates since 2000. Colin Planalp is a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's State Health Access Data Assistance Center. He says the suicide rate in Minnesota increased 48-percent, compared to the national rate of 37-percent. We have the 12th lowest rate among states, but the 18th highest rate of increase. Planalp says the largest increase in suicide death rates that we found since 2000 was children ages 10-to-14, and their suicide death rate was the lowest of all the groups we looked at it nearly doubled. Firearm and non-firearm methods each accounted for roughly half of suicide deaths in 2018.
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