A missing Bay City woman has been found. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 50yr old Diane Peterson was reported missing by her husband on Monday. Deputies arrived on scene of the residence and a search was conducted. Peterson was found in a nearby wooded area deceased. There is no suspicion of foul play in this incident and it remains under investigation by the Pierce County Sheriffs Department.
The Durand-Arkansaw School Board approved the purchase of a new cooling tower at Caddie-Woodlaw school. The tower is used to store water for the schools heat pumps. Durand Arkansaw School Superintendent says the inside of the tower is beginning to rust. The new tower is expected to last 40yrs.
The City of Durand is working on a way to finance the reconstruction of Laneville Ave from Drier Street to Country Lane. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says there some issues that needs to be addressed. Milliren says the city could use revenue bonds from the water and sewer departments, along with assistance from Pepin County as the county is responsible for the middle 22ft of the road.
A man from Eau Claire will spend ten years in federal prison for dealing methamphetamine and heroin in western Wisconsin. Forty-year-old Travis Hanson was sentenced for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams. Prosecutors say Hanson sold heroin to an informant in February and investigators later tracked him to St. Paul where he met his drug source. Hanson and his girlfriend and their drug source were arrested when they returned to Menominee. The bust led to the seizure of 236 grams of meth, 11 grams of heroin, small amounts of crack and a digital scale.
A federal prisoner from Chippewa Falls will be sentenced in January for the November 2017 drug overdose deaths of two men. Shane Paul Johnson pleaded no contest Monday to reckless homicide and recklessly endangering safety. Johnson was initially charged in the fatal overdose of Samuel Ott and four days later the O-D death of Nicholas Buck. He's already serving a 20-year sentence for selling large amounts of methamphetamine.
Congressmen Ron Kind and Tom Tiffany are sponsoring legislation to rename the New Richmond post office after two brothers killed in World War II. Their bill would name it the "Captain Robert C. Harmon and Private John R. Peirson Post Office." Captain Harmon was shot down over France a week before the D-Day invasion. Private Peirson was killed during the Easter Day assault on the island of Okinawa. The effort is supported by the American Legion Post 80, St. Croix V-F-W and New Richmond Chamber of Commerce.
A federal court is upholding an extension for returning absentee ballots in Wisconsin. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision by Judge William Conley that extends the amount of time that clerk's offices will have to count absentee ballots. While ballots still have to be postmarked by Election Day, clerk's offices will be required to count them if they arrive up to six days later. Republicans have attempted to block the move and are likely to ask the U-S Supreme Court to take up the case.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case that could remove about 130-thousand people from the state’s voter rolls. A conservative law firm is asking the Supreme Court to overturn a state appeals court's ruling that stopped the purging of the voters who had been identified as potentially having moved. Democrats argue that the lawsuit is meant to lower turnout. Republicans counter it’s about reducing voter fraud. It may not affect the presidential election five weeks from now. Lawyers for both sides say they don't expect a decision until sometime after November 3rd.
Senator Ron Johnson wants ballot-counting changed on Election Day. Johnson says Wisconsin lawmakers should pass a bill to allow counting absentee ballots *before* Election Day in anticipation of record mail-in votes. A bill to that effect has already passed the State Assembly, but has yet to be taken up by the Senate. Wisconsin law states that absentee ballots cannot be unsealed until the polls open on Election Day.
U-S Environmental Protection (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler a farm in Stanchfield where they announced a 642-thousand dollar grant to the Minnesota Department of Agriculture to continue the implementation of the state’s pesticide program. Wheeler says farmers and the ag industry are some of E-P-A's strongest allies in the effort to protect America’s environment. He says: "From E-15 to Dicamba and the pesticide program, the agency is listening to the needs of farmers and ranchers and making improvements in the way we regulate.”
The University of Wisconsin's unsuccessful search for a new president cost more than 216-thousand dollars. The U-W System is expected to pay at least that amount for its new presidential search. Efforts to find the next president ended in June when University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen withdrew from consideration on the day the Board of Regents was meeting to make a recommendation. The public spoke out against the search last fall when no faculty or staff were named to the search committee. Former Governor Tommy Thompson was named interim System president in July and will serve for at least a year.
Wisconsin currently ranks third in the nation (after North and South Dakota) in growth of new COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people. Dr. Jeff Pothoff with UW Health in Madison suggests that won't change until people here change behaviors. More than half of Wisconsin counties show an increasing trend in cases. Ozaukee, Price and Lafayette counties are the top three.
You're being reminded to get your flu shots early this year. That's because hospitals don't want to be dealing with two different sorts of chest infections. Doctor James Conway from UW-Health says the problem is that at the onset, both the coronavirus and influenza start off pretty much the same. Dr. Conway says the more they can eliminate the flu from the equation, the more they can focus on people who need help recovering from COVID-19
It looks like Spirit Mountain ski and snowboard area in Duluth will open for the 2020 season. The Duluth City Council voted unanimously Monday night to give 300-thousand dollars to Spirit Mountain. Council members decided to help out the resort because it was not eligible for federal relief funding. Spirit Mountain did not open its bike trails, adventure park and other activities for the summer season. The ski and snowboard hill brings millions of dollars in the Duluth area economy.
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