The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion of the vacant building ordinance, the 2021 Budget Process and reports from the city departments. The council will also be discussing the Durand Improvement Group Trunk or Treat event for October 31st. Tonights meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall and will be live-streamed on our website at reelcountry1430.com/live-streaming and on our YouTube Channel Durand Broadcasting WRDN.
A rural Menomonie woman has been arrested on drug charges. According to the Dunn County Sheriffs Department, the Dunn County K-9 unit pulled over 25yr old Cassandra Davis-Suchla on October 11 and officers found over 341 grams of methamphetamine, a scale, packing material, oxycodone, suboxone, a handgun and counterfeit money. The traffic stop was the culmination of a year long investigation into the distribution of drugs in Western Wisconsin. Davis-Suchla is being held on a $15,000 cash bond.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident Saturday in Rock Elm Township. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 60yr old Frank Sieben of Hastings, MN was traveling northbound on Hwy S when he swerved to miss striking a group of deer in the roadway. Sieben entered the ditch at the intersection of Hwy S and 70th street and he was ejected from the bike. Sieben was transported to Mayo Hospital in Menomonie.
The Mondovi Council has decided to not have a turn lane installed at Countryside Parkway and Hwy 37 Southbound. During last nights meeting some council members were concerned that the turn lane was not needed and it was hard to justify the $40,000 cost. The lane would have been installed during the reconstruction of Hwy 37 which is scheduled to be done in the next few years.
A man accused of leaving inappropriate pictures along Chippewa County hiking trails has posted a signature bond and is out of jail. Authorities arrested 60-year-old Dave Lunemann Friday. Investigators say he posted dozens of naked pictures over the last four years. Lunemann is accused of not only leaving the pornography in plain sight but also leaving notes criticizing local businesses. Chippewa County Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk says his office had received more than 30 complaints. The man from Bloomer faces charges of distribution of pornography, criminal damage to property, and identity theft to a business.
A Winona man will spend more than 22 years in prison for killing his friend with a hammer and setting the victim's home on fire. Thirty-three-year-old Steven E. Miller was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and arson. Miller told investigators he attacked 55-year-old David Seaman with a hammer on March 25th, 2019 while high on meth and mushrooms. The autopsy showed Seaman had fractures to the face and skull and no evidence of smoke inhalation was found. Seaman's body was found after Winona firefighters extinguished the fire in the home.
A Rochester man accused of killing his girlfriend and her daughter made his initial court appearance Tuesday. Twenty-nine-year-old Renard Carter is charged with three counts of second-degree murder in the strangulations of 23-year-old Kiona Foster and two-year-old Miyona Miller. Carter didn't enter a plea to the charges. He was arrested in South Carolina after being shot by a police officer while holding a B-B gun. Carter will be back in Olmsted County court in December for another hearing.
More than one-point-three-million Minnesotans have requested mail-in ballots for the November election so far. Secretary of State Steve Simon is encouraging more voters to do the same during the coronavirus pandemic. Simon said, "no one is saying that polling places are a death trap and you should run for your lives, what we are saying is use your head, use caution, think about ways you can mitigate risk, up to and including using alternate ways of voting." Minnesotans are able to vote by mail up until Election Day as long as the ballot is postmarked November 3rd and arrives by the 10th.
The Tavern League is asking a western Wisconsin judge to immediately block Governor Tony Evers’ emergency order limit the number of people who can be inside bars and restaurants. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in Sawyer County Circuit Court. The governor’s order limits businesses and public gatherings in enclosed spaces to 25 percent of the capacity of the locations. One legal challenge has already failed, but that decision is being appealed. The governor’s order went into effect last Thursday and it is scheduled to last until November 6th.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says it has either paid or denied 92 percent of the unemployment claims it has received so far. The state agency claims it is making progress on catching up after some people say they had to wait months for a determination. D-W-D says about 590 thousand of the more than seven million claims are still being evaluated. An audit in September found more than 90 percent of the phone calls to the state unemployment office went unanswered between March 15th and June 30th.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has sent a letter to Republican legislative leaders asking for a meeting to discuss the state’s COVID-19 response. Evers wants Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald to join him for negotiations on future plans. The Democrat Evers says he welcomes feedback from Vos and Fitzgerald. He says now isn’t the time to weaken Wisconsin’s response to the virus. The number of positive test results for COVID-19 in Wisconsin has more than doubled in recent weeks.
A group of lawmakers is calling for the Wisconsin Legislature to meet in extraordinary session to pass a bill that would allow the counting of absentee ballots before Election Day. A letter from eight senators and 15 representatives was sent to to Assembly Speaker Robyn Voss and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald urging to them to allow early canvassing. They say more than one-point-three million absentee ballots have been requested for the November election and over 683-thousand ballots had been returned as of Monday. The legislators say local clerks need extra time to process the ballots. Wisconsin is one of only nine states that prohibits any sort of pre-election day processing of ballots. U-S Senator Ron Johnson has expressed his support for canvassing of ballots prior to November 3rd. A Senate bill introduced last November would make the change requested in the letter.
A Mauston police officer is on administrative leave after an off-duty shooting August 26th. The criminal complaint says Sergeant Michael Sturek and another person spent the night drinking before Sturek removed a gun from his safe. Sturek was reportedly cleaning it outside and told detectives they were shocked when it went off. He and the other person were three to four feet apart when the bullet hit the victim's groin and lodged in their thigh. Deputies said Sturek smelled like alcohol at the hospital and he admitted to drinking about a dozen beers. He's charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety, operating a firearm while intoxicated and endearing safety using a dangerous weapon.
The Wisconsin National Guard plans to open the State Fair field hospital Wednesday. It still isn’t known how many patients will end up staying in the tents at the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. The hospital was first set up last spring. The initial plan is for 50 patients to be transferred there, but the facility has room for more than 500. State officials announced Monday there are currently 950 patients hospitalized for treatment for COVID-19. No officials have said if any or all of the patients will arrive Wednesday – or, where they will come from.
Wednesday is the final day a person who wants to vote in the November presidential election can register online or by mail. People who miss the deadline can still register in-person or at absentee ballot voting sites until October 30th – or, they can do the same thing at the polls on Election Day. Clerks are recommending voters who think they are registered should confirm the fact online at MyVote-dot-WI-dot-gov. If you have moved since the last time you voted, you need to update your registration.
Middleton Police have ticketed the 36-year-old man accused of driving his vehicle into the side of a church last week. Officers were called to investigate a single-car crash Monday, October 5th. The accident caused significant damage to Aaron Klubertanz’s car and St. Bernard Catholic Church. Investigators say Klubertanz was speeding on a city street at about 1:00 a-m when he lost control, crossed the center line, and hit a traffic light, knocking it over. He then kept going, slamming his vehicle into the west side of the church.
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