Minor injures were reported in a two vehicle accident in Durand yeasterday. According to the Pepin County Sheriffs Department, 16yr old Olivia Sann of Durand was traveling eastbound on Hwy 10 and turning into a driveway when she was struck by an eastbound vehicle driven by 80yr old Ronald Scholsser of Pepin. The Sann vehicle had two other passengers, a 13yr old and 62yr old female and both had minor injuries. Both vehicles received moderate damage as a result of the accident.
No one was injured in a car vs train accident in Maiden Rock on Thursday. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 23yr old Christopher Longsdorf of Plum City became stuck on the railroad tracks at the Chester Street Crossing. A southbound BNSF train was approaching when Longsdorf was able to exit his vehicle without injury before the train crashed into the vehicle. The vehicle was pushed down the tracks and started on fire. Longsdorf was arrested on suspicion of Operating a Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated along with driving with a revoked driver's license. That accident remains under investigation.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident on Saturday in Diamond Bluff Township. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 44yr old Mark Gjertson of Roseville, MN was traveling northbound on Hwy OO when he hit a patch of sand, lost control of the motorcycle and laid the motorcycle on its side in the southbound lane. His passenger 47yr old Teresa Majerus of Zumbrota was taken to Regina Hospital in Hastings with undetermined injuries.
Attorney General Keith Ellison's lawsuit against a southeast Minnesota gym will be heard today (Tuesday 10 a-m) in Wabasha County court. The A-G's office filed a restraining order to prohibit the Plainview Wellness Center from remaining open during the state's four-week "pause" on activities. Ellison says his office reached out to Plainview Wellness and its management threatened to continue operating in violation of the COVID order. Owner Brandon Reiter has been raising money online to help cover his legal bills.
Today is the final day for dairy farmers to register for the Farm First Dairy Cooperative's Virtual District meeting. The virtual meeting will feature Jim Mulhern, President & CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation who will recap our policy achievements over the past year, the issues we are continuing to address as well as an insider’s view on what we can expect from President-elect Joe Biden and the new Congress with respect to agriculture policy. To participate, members must first visit FarmFirst’s website at www.FarmFirstDairyCooperative.com to register. After submitting the online registration form, members will receive a confirmation email with the conference link included.
Federal
Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai will step down January 20,
2021, the day President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in. In a
statement released Monday, the rural Kansas native said, “It has
been the honor of a lifetime to serve at the Federal Communications
Commission.” Pai was appointed to the commission in 2012 by
President Barack Obama, and made chairman by President Donald Trump
in 2017. Pai used his time at the FCC focusing on rural broadband
issues, among other things. In 2013 Pai met with WRDN Owner Brian
Winnekins and discussed changes to the AM Broadcast rules which led
to changes in 2016. Pai also visited Durand in 2017 and met with
area leaders, tele-com operators and listeners to discuss a host of
issues. Pai’s term was set to expire in June 2021.
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La Crosse-area school bus driver says his conscience wouldn’t let
him keep the 10-thousand dollars he found sitting on the roadway.
Gene Rochester was driving his route when he found the cash. A little
checking determined the money belonged to a nearby convenience store,
so Rochester gave it back. Rochester drives a school bus for the
Milwaukee-based GoRiteway Bus Services.
The clock is ticking – again – for the Trump campaign. It has five days from Monday’s certification of the presidential election results to file a lawsuit challenging the outcome. The president has already said the legal action is coming. The suit would be based on taking a closer look at clerk corrections to witness information, in-person absentee voting, and anyone who marked on the form that they are indefinitely confined. Wisconsin Elections Commission chair Meagan Wolfe signed off on Joe Biden’s victory Monday and Governor Tony Evers certified it.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says probably early next week he'll announce some specifics of a plan to roll out an expected COVID vaccine in Minnesota. Walz says one question still being debated at the federal and state levels is whether health care workers should get the vaccine first, or those in long-term care facilities. The governor says it will probably be March or April before the COVID vaccine is available to the general population. State health officials stress that just because a vaccine is on the horizon, Minnesotans can't let up COVID safety precautions -- which they say will save lives until a vaccine is widely available.
Wisconsin’s
Democratic governor is meeting with Republican legislative leaders
for the second time in less than two weeks. When Governor Tony
Evers sits down with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority
Leader Scott LeMahieu today (Tuesday) the focus will be on the
state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The group talked
about possible legislation during the last meeting 10 days ago.
Both sides say that session was “productive.” The Wisconsin
Legislature hasn’t passed any coronavirus-related relief bills
since April when it allocated the two-point-three-billion dollars the
state was receiving as part of the federal CARES Act.
More women are sporting hunter's orange and taking the fields to get a buck or a doe than ever before. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the number of women hunters increased by nine-percent from last year. The department says about 90-thousand woman participated this year.
The interim secretary for the Department of Workforce Development tells jobless Wisconsin residents they should get their unemployment benefits by the end of the year. Some have been waiting for months. Amy Pechacek said Sunday she hopes to erase the backlog of unpaid benefits in a matter of weeks – not months. Some people have been waiting since March to have their claims processed. Numbers from the state agency show 70-thousand people were still waiting to be paid as of last month. Another 530-thousand are waiting to have their claims processed.
President Trump has stated on Twitter that he fully intends to file a lawsuit this week. Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at UW-Madison, tells 27 News, it probably won't change the outcome. Two lawsuits already ask the state Supreme Court to throw out all election results - arguing the use of ballot boxes is illegal and if ballots hadn't been separated, all need to be thrown out. Another claims thousands voted illegally by voting absentee. Both want the Republican led Legislature to pick Wisconsin's electors.
The latest Minnesota budget forecast comes out today and lawmakers are wondering how big the projected shortfall will be. The forecast released last May projected a budget deficit of two-point-four-billion dollars. That’s a four-billion-dollar drop from last fiscal year’s surplus and it's blamed on the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Tim Walz says preliminary information suggests the latest forecast will be “materially better,” but he acknowledges it is difficult to “forecast a forecast.” Walz says he will want to call a special session as soon as possible to rush emergency aid to bars and restaurants in the state.
Three
members of the Minneapolis City Council are offering a proposal to
remove eight-million dollars from the police department’s budget.
Councilmember Phillipe Cunningham says he is responding to the mass
protests following George Floyd’s death last May. He calls
that “a clear call from residents” for a transformation.
Cunningham, Lisa Bender and Steve Fletcher want to remove the
eight-million from the police department’s 200-million-dollar
budget. At least part of it would go toward creating unarmed
response teams for non-emergencies like theft reports or parking
issues. Mayor Jacob Frey’s office says he would have
significant concerns if the council tried to make such “large,
permanent cuts” without the data or community input to support the
move.
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precocious seven-year-old hunter has harvested a 21-point buck in
Oconto County. Jericho Manske was hunting on a deer ranch last
week. Eric Manske says his son was shooting a B-B gun at
targets by the time he was one year old. The young hunter shot
a spike when he was five and harvested a six-pointer last year.
He shot this year’s buck in the throat from about 50 yards away.
Jericho Manske says he wants to be a Department of Natural Resources
agent when he grows up.
Wisconsin corn growers are expected to see record yields this year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service forecast an average of 184 bushels of corn per acre. That’s six bushels, or about 3 percent, higher than the previous record set in 2016 and almost 11 percent higher than what farmers saw last year. Joe Lauer, an agronomy professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says farmers were grateful for more normal weather patterns this year after an extremely wet season in 2019.
Time is growing short for Minnesota hog farmers to apply for financial help. Tuesday is the deadline for the Hog De-Population Cost-Share Program” benefits. Minnesota Pork C-E-O David Preisler says the available funding is for farms that had to put animals down. Preisler says eligibility hinges on the de-population occurring between March 2nd and September 30th. Farmers can file their application on the Minnesota Ag Department webpage.
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