The Durand City Council has approved the design and construction engineering services contract with Cedar Corp. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren The agreement is part of the CBDG Grant that the city received as part of the reconstruction of 3rd Avenue East. Milliren says the city will decide how to proceed with the Drier Street and Laneville street projects during the upcoming budget process this fall.
The Department of Health Services is urging everyone to get the flu vaccine this year. Pepin County Health Officer Heidi Stewart says fall is the time when the flu virus begins to circulate. Stewart says the health department is expected to receive its vaccine for distribution to children by the end of the month, other local pharmacies and health care providers could begin to receive the vaccine by the end of next week.
Yesterday was the first day of classes at UW-Stout in Menomonie. Because of the pandemic, large group events have been canceled, students are masking up indoors and outdoors and practicing social distancing. This semester 50% of all classes at UW-Stout are online while 44% are in person and students are socially distanced while in class.
Second-degree murder charges have been filed against the 21-year-old suspect in a West St. Paul carjacking and fatal shooting. The incident happened last Friday. Officers were called to an apartment building at about 9:30 p-m about a man acting erratically. As they arrived, the officers say they heard a gunshot. A few moments later they found a woman suffering from a head wound. She died before she could be taken to a hospital. Police were told Steven Daniel Burford and the victim had been arguing before the shooting. Her name hasn’t been released.
Governor Tony Evers says the Wisconsin Department of Transportation is awarding 18-million dollars in public transit grants in the state. Governor Evers said, "Wisconsinites from Beloit to Eau Claire depend on reliable public transit systems for everything from getting to work or school safely, visiting the doctor, and everyday things like grabbing groceries." The funding is part of the second round of grants through the Volkswagen mitigation program. Transit systems in Beloit, Wausau, Sheboygan, Madison, Eau Claire, Racine, Green Bay, and La Crosse will purchase a total of 34 public transit buses.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says he hasn’t decided whether to extend his statewide mask mandate when it expires at the end of this month. The state is experiencing significant increases in COVID-19 cases, especially on college campuses. Evers told an audience at the Milwaukee Press Club Wednesday he will “cross that bridge when we get there.” There is an active legal challenge in the courts. A Marquette University Law School poll released this week shows 57 percent of those surveyed approve of the way the governor has handled the coronavirus pandemic.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz plans to convene a special legislative session beginning on Friday. Walz says he intends to extend the peacetime emergency by 30 days to "ensure the state can continue to quickly and effectively respond to the COVID-19 pandemic." It's the fourth special session to occur amid coronavirus. Senate Republicans are calling on Walz to put an end to his peacetime executive orders, but the Democrat-controlled House supports the governor's decision to extend his powers.
Minnesota-based HealthPartners is suspending recruitment of participants in a COVID-19 vaccine trial. The pause comes as drug maker AstraZeneca investigates a "potentially unexplained" illness and whether it is a side effect of the shot. The person who became ill as a part of the Oxford University trial lives in the United Kingdom. HealthPartners quickly filled about one-thousand of its 15-hundred slots less than 24 hours after announcing it was participating. HealthPartners said when the evaluation process is complete, volunteers in the study will have their appointments rescheduled.
A group of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison could be disciplined for gathering in a hallway. The video posted on Instagram is thought to have been shot at an off-campus location. It apparently happened the day after Chancellor Rebecca Blank urged undergraduate students to restrict their in-person interactions. The university is working to identify the students seen in the video so appropriate disciplinary action can be taken. More than 70 percent of the 901 new Dane County cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the last week have been U-W students or staff members.
The U-S Coast Guard rescued a man Tuesday morning when high waves stranded him at the Sheboygan North Pier Lighthouse. Waves up to six feet crashing onto the pier blocked his return to land. A Coast Guard crew from the station at Sheboygan responded, passed a personal flotation device to the man, and brought him back to shore safely. His name and age haven’t been released. The Coast Guard is reminding people to check weather and water conditions before walking on the piers – because conditions can become dangerous very quickly.
Authorities in Clark County are following up on a report of an attempted child abduction. A girl reported that a young white man with a clean-shaven head emerged from a maroon S-U-V or van at about 4:25 p-m Tuesday in Greenwood. She says the man chased her, but she was able to get away. The child’s age and name haven’t been reported and no arrests have been announced. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Clark County Sheriff’s Office at 715-743-3157.
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe is reminding local clerks that the deadline to mail absentee ballots is a week from Thursday. Wolfe says the deadline will be watched especially closely this year. Wolfe says she understands that some local clerks may struggle to meet the deadline, so she's asking them to keep her in the loop.
The Better Business Bureau is seeing an increase in the amount of complaints about fake package delivery texts. BBB Wisconsin president Jim Temmer says the scammers will send you to a phony log in page, but they won't stop with just your username and password. If you get a text about a missing or delayed package, check for yourself from that provider's website to see if something went wrong, don't follow a suspicious link.
Minnesotans are being encouraged to keep up with their preventive care appointments during the COVID-19 pandemic. MNsure C-E-O Nate Clark says if you have a plan through MNsure, these services are free even if you haven't met your deductible. Clark said, "preventative care includes things like screenings, check-ups, patient counseling, blood pressure, diabetes screenings, mammograms, colonoscopies." Clark says it's a great thing to have coverage, but the most important thing is to use it.
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