Dunn County authorities have released the name of a victim of a one vehicle accident in the town of Knapp on September 17th. 25Yr old Alysha Hellekson of Menomonie was killed when her truck failed to stop at the intersection of Hwy 12 and Q, entered the ditch, struck a tree and then entered the Mattison construction property and struck a pile of new guard rails. The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
The Durand-Arkansaw School board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include information on the 2020 preliminary enrollment, discussion of the Pepin County and Western Region of WI Metrics for school instruction in regards to covid-19 and action on new revised staff and board policies. Tonight's meeting begins at 6pm and will be available on zoom.
The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include reports from the mayor city administrator and department heads, discussion and possible action on allowing main street to be closed for the Durand Improvement Group Trunk or Treet event. Tonight's meeting is at 6:30 and will be available on our live stream at our website and on our you tube channel at Durand Broadcasting WRDN.
Authorities in western Wisconsin are looking for the suspects in an S-U-V who stole an A-T-M from the Ashley Furniture plant in Arcadia. The Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office posted pictures of the light blue 2002 to 2009 Kia Sorento on their Facebook page. Investigators say the suspects entered the plant 4 cafeteria Monday morning and one person loaded an A-T-M on a dolly and took it to the vehicle. Witnesses were unable to take down the license plate of the suspect vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to contact Arcadia police or the Trempealeau County sheriff.
UW-La Crosse has issued a new plan to resume in person classes on October 5th. The plan includes testing all 1500 students who stayed on campus during the shelter-in-place quarantine. For those that left campus, they will begin to return next week, but they will have to have been tested in the last 48hrs or be tested and have a negative covid 19 result. Any student testing positive will need to isolate. Students living off campus are encouraged to get tested this week.
A Monroe County judge has ruled the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources violated state law when it granted a wetlands permit to a frac sand operation three years ago. Judge Todd Ziegler refused to reinstate the permit in court Monday. Georgia-based Meteor Timber had sued last year when an administrative law judge revoked the permit. The Ho-Chunk Nation, Midwest Environmental Advocates and Clean Wisconsin had challenged the permit in 2018. They argued the D-N-R hadn’t collected enough information to grant it – and the administrative law judge agreed.
t happened in July – it’s happened again. Wisconsin has been added to the Chicago travel order. Anyone going to the Windy City from the Badger State needs to self-quarantine for 14 days after arrival. That includes Chicago residents returning home from Wisconsin. This state was placed on that list for the first time in July. It joins 18 other states and Puerto Rico because there has been a steady increase in coronavirus cases.
The one-and-a-half billion-dollar city budget presented to the Common Council Tuesday by Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett cuts spending on the police department. Barrett’s plan reduces police spending by 430 thousand dollars, eliminating 120 positions in the department. Barrett says the reduction would be accomplished through attrition. Sixty sworn police jobs were already removed from the current budget. Barrett’s spending plan follows nationwide calls to defund police while thousands march for racial justice.
Wisconsin residents have been getting bombarded with calls purporting to be from voting rights groups saying that they're not registered to vote. State consumer protection administrator Lara Sutherlin says many of these calls are either inaccurate or scams attempting to add you to a list somewhere. If you get calls asking you for money to help you register, or random calls for donations to a candidate, hang up, and find a source on your own.
Governor Tony Evers is declaring a new public health emergency and issuing a new mask order due to a recent surge in COVID-19 cases among young people. Evers said, "We need folks to start taking this seriously, and young people especially—please stay home as much as you are able, skip heading to the bars, and wear a mask whenever you go out." Republican Senator Chris Kapenga of Delafield is calling on G-O-P leaders to repeal the order and claims "there is not a scientific consensus that using face coverings have been proven to stop the spread of COVID." But UW-Health said wearing a mask has proven to be one of the best means of protection society has against COVID-19. Both orders will expire after 60 days.
Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcom says there are a lot of risks with allowing high school football and volleyball this fall in Minnesota. Malcom says we expect they will be taking all the safety measures that they can to ensure the student-athletes can compete, "but that they can also go to school, which again means extra vigilance on everybody's part -- players, coaches spectators, fans." Malcolm says this includes wearing masks, social distancing, and limiting the number of spectators. Both seasons will begin on September 28th. Three-hundred-51 Minnesota schools have reported COVID-19 cases so far this year.
After
being shut down for more than a year, Flambeau River Papers is in
operation again with 51 workers returning to the job. The plant
closed in June 2019. To this point only one of the three
paper-making machines is online, but the workforce is eventually
expected to triple in size. It had looked like the mill
equipment in northern Wisconsin might be sold for scrap, but a new
investment group from New Jersey save the day.
Authorities in southern Minnesota say a drug bust in Albert Lea netted more than ten pounds of methamphetamine. Officers from the South Central Drug Investigation Unit and several other agencies searched a home last Friday. Agents say they seized ten-and-a-half pounds of meth and about four-thousand dollars in cash. No word on any arrests or suspects. The investigation is ongoing.
Researchers with the Department of Natural Resources are asking Wisconsin deer hunters to share their behaviors over a three-day period. The D-N-R says it wants to better understand the choices those 130 thousand hunters make while they are in the field. Technology like trail cameras are helping them track wildlife and that has changed things. The survey is being sent to all license holders, but participation is still voluntary.
The Department of Natural Resources is asking Wisconsin’s governor to renew its land stewardship program for another 10 years. As it stands now, the program is scheduled to end in mid-2022. The D-N-R is asking Governor Evers to increase its borrowing authority from 33 million dollars-a-year to 50 million – and to extend the program through mid-2032. The request actually involves only a three-tenths of one percent increase in the total funding for the D-N-R.
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