The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on proposed amendments to the Vacant Building Ordinance, and the council will also vote on the ordinance after the public meeting. Other items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on an outstanding invoice to the Durand Swim Club for swimming lessons in 2019, and an update on the Tarrant Park Pool. Tonight's meeting is at 6:30 at Durand City Hall and will be live-streamed on our YouTube Channel at Durand Broadcasting WRDN.
Those interested in purchasing land in the Pesso Creek development in Mondovi to take advantage of the tax abatement program have until July 1st. At last night's Mondovi City Council meeting, the council approved ending the program on July 1st. Also at last night's meeting, Mayor Weiss told members of an issue with the storm drain on Riverside Drive that could be causing some flooding. The Mayor said that the city engineering is looking at the issue to come up with a solution.
The Pepin and Dunn County Health Departments have put on hold vaccination clinics due to the hold on using the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. If you received the Johnson and Johnson vaccine from the health department or another provider and are experiencing severe headaches, abdominal pain, leg pain, or shortness of breath within 21 days of vaccination, you are to contact your healthcare provider or seek medical care.
Wisconsin's sixth community-based COVID vaccination clinic opens next week in Barron County. The site at the UW-Eau Claire Rice Lake campus will begin giving shots Tuesday, April 20th. The goal is to administer at least 200 doses a day with the ability to give up to 500 shots per day. Anyone age 16 and older can schedule an appointment on the Wisconsin COVID-19 Vaccine Registry. Governor Tony Evers say these clinics are aimed to optimize local vaccination efforts by closing the gaps in vaccine access across the state.
Less than a week after the April election a member of the Eau Claire City Council has submitted her resignation. Mai Xiong wasn’t running for reelection this time. She is leaving to serve as vice-chair of the Governor’s Equity and Inclusion Council – an appointment she received late last month. She says she is excited about her new responsibilities but sad that she must resign. Xiong says the new position gives her the opportunity to serve the community in the most impactful way she can. Her resignation is effective immediately.
Low-income Wisconsin families at risk of losing food assistance next month will continue to receive it. The U.S. Department of Agriculture told the Evers administration Tuesday that an agreement will preserve about 70 million dollars a month in federal aid. That means about 400,000 households will continue to receive extra aid in May that they were at risk of losing because of a recent state Supreme Court decision. The agreement was announced shortly after Assembly Speaker Robin Vos offered a plan to restore the program, which was all but certain to fail because it included provisions opposed by Democrats.
Power companies in Wisconsin can start cutting people’s lights and heat starting Thursday. The Wisconsin Public Service Commission says utility customers who owe money should make payment arrangements as soon as possible to avoid losing service. Wisconsin’s moratorium on gas and electricity disconnection ends Thursday. That’s when Wisconsin power companies will be allowed to turn off the lights and gas to customers who haven’t been paying their bills.
Governor Tony Evers says the state will award 100-million dollars from the American Rescue Plan to small businesses and organizations working to eliminate disparities. Fifty million will be used for Wisconsin Tomorrow - Main Street Bounceback grants. The program will provide ten-thousand-dollar grants to new or existing businesses that move into vacant storefronts and commercial properties. The other 50-million dollars will go to the Equitable Recovery Program for grants to community partners doing work to promote equity and inclusion. The governor's office says racial disparities have persisted in COVID health outcomes and economic impacts.
The incoming state school superintendent says she won’t order Wisconsin schools to fully reopen in September. Jill Underly tells Channel 12 in Milwaukee that individual school districts will have to make their own choices. That’s consistent with the current Department of Public Instruction policy. Almost every school district in Wisconsin has resumed at least some in-person learning this spring.
Assembly Republicans are engaging Governor Tony Evers in a tug-of-war over billions of dollars in federal stimulus funds. The Assembly passed nearly a dozen bills Tuesday on how to spend the three-point-two-billion dollars. Evers is expected to veto the bills if they reach his desk. He’s already vetoed two bills that would have given lawmakers more control of that federal coronavirus stimulus money. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says instead of Evers, by himself, deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars, there should be a “robust debate” letting the public see where its dollars are going.
A Rusk County father is in custody for allegedly shooting his 36-year-old son to death. Deputies were called to a home in Sheldon shortly before 6:30 p-m Friday where they found the body of Jesse O’Brien. He had a single gunshot wound. Fifty-nine-year-old Scott O’Brien was still at the location and was arrested. He is being held on suspicion of homicide by intoxicated use of a firearm. The Wisconsin State Patrol and the state Crime Lab have been working with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office on the investigation. Neighbors say the father and son lived together in that home in a rural area outside Sheldon.
Authorities in La Crosse say they are holding a suspect in an April 4th shooting. Julius Lloyd was identified as a suspect last week. When he was seen getting into a vehicle on La Crosse’s north side, a police officer conducted a traffic stop. One officer was injured when Lloyd began to resist arrest. Investigators say more than 700-dollars in cash and 22 bags containing a substance “consistent with cocaine” were found on his person.
U-W System president Tommy Thompson and U-W-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank say it wouldn’t be a good investment to spend 70-million dollars fixing Van Hise Hall. A concrete slab fell off the Humanities Building last week. The two university officials say 165-million dollars should be spent to replace Van Hise Hall and build a new Engineering Building on the Madison campus. Thompson says it’s not just about spending money. If approved by lawmakers, the projects would be finished by the end of 2025. Thompson says the work would be “building for the future.”
The attorney for convicted killer Steven Avery says a new witness came forward with information Sunday, leading her to file a motion with the state Appeals Court. Kathleen Zellner claims Avery’s nephew, Bobby Dassey, planted the victim’s car at the Avery Salvage Yard in 2005. Avery is serving time for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Zellner says Thomas Sowinski told her he was delivering newspapers when he saw Dassey and another man pushing a dark blue RAV-4 down the road toward the junkyard. Sowinski says Dassey tried to stop him from leaving. He says he told the Manitowoc County Sheriff’s Office, but nobody interviewed him. Dassey was one of the key prosecution witnesses against his uncle.
The State Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday in a case about how police are allowed to use cell phone data to catch suspects in crimes. At issue is the murder case against George Burch. Police caught Burch by connecting him to the case with the use of cell phone data from a previous and unrelated case. Attorney Ana Lyn Babcock says police wildly overstepped their bounds and should have deleted that data. Attorneys for the state argue that Burch signed over a consent form at the time he originally offered up that data, and that gave police full consent to do whatever they wanted with the information on the phone.
It's Severe Weather Awareness Week, and Andrew Beckett with Wisconsin Emergency Management says it's critical to know where to shelter when storms and tornados approach. You can learn more about how to prepare your household for severe weather at Ready Wisconsin-dot-WI-dot gov.
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