Lifeguards were still needed for the summer swimming season at the Tarrant Park Pool. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren Says that because of the pool being closed last year due to the pandemic, the city is facing a gap in lifeguards. As of last week, only 2 lifeguards had been hired when 7 are needed for full operation of the pool.
Rural Hospitals and clinics could be receiving some assistance after the house and senate passed the Rural and Underserves Small Protections Act. Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind says the act will fix some language in last year's CARES act. That bill is now headed to President Biden.
Planning for the Independence Day celebrations continues in Mondovi. At last week's city council meeting, the council was told the Past in the Park will be held on July 3rd and will feature a celebration on the 76th anniversary of the end of World War 2. The community band will be playing music from the era. On the 4th the Parade will be at 1pm and all Mondovi World War 2 Vets will be the grand marshals of the parade. Fireworks will follow that night.
Health officials continue to watch the spread of new variants of Covid 19. Pepin County Health Officer Heidi Stewart says the variants of the virus can make it easier to spread. Health officials continue to urge people eligible for the vaccine to receive it along with continued social distancing, washing of hands, and wearing of masks.
The sentence is ten years in prison for a western Wisconsin man charged with providing the drugs in two fatal overdoses. Shane Johnson of Chippewa Falls pleaded no contest to selling the meth and heroin that led to the 2017 deaths of Samuel Ott and Nicholas Buck. Johnson is already serving a 20-year sentence for what authorities called the biggest drug bust in Chippewa Falls history.
The Wabasha County Board is meeting tomorrow. Items on the agenda include presentations from the Sheriff's Department on the 2020 recap, and from the South Country Health Alliance. The board is also expected to approve an MOA with the University of Minnesota Extension. The board will also go into a closed session to discuss the pending zoning and highway lawsuits with the county attorney. Tomorrow's meeting begins at 9am at the Wabasha County Government Center.
While firefighters from New London were setting up their equipment and calling for backup help from seven other departments, the explosions started. A propane tank exploded, then several others went up Friday afternoon. Four campers, two sheds, and a pickup truck were damaged or destroyed and the heat from the flames damaged two more campers. No injuries were reported. The first call from the Huckleberry Acres Campground six miles south of New London was received at about 12:30 p-m. The New London Fire Department is investigating to determine how the fire started. Crews from Bear Creek, Dale, Fremont, Hortonville, Manawa, and Weyauwega offered mutual aid.
A driver on Interstate 90 says he was near mile marker 146 when the windows on his car were “shot out.” Two more drivers reported their cars has been damaged by bullets Saturday at about 2:15 p-m. Deputies canvassed the area and tracked down three men who had been shooting at targets – but apparently missed more than once. The interstate highway was a few hundred yards directly behind those targets. Bryan Spangler of Cottage Grove, John Zimmerman of Oak Creek, and Jeffery Zimmerman of Wabasha was taken into custody. The men will be charged with second-degree recklessly endangering safety.
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The Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District says a high school teacher has been placed on administrative leave over a video that has gone public. The teacher’s name hasn’t been released. A news statement from the district describes the comments on the video as including language that was racist at times, and offensive, “and inappropriate throughout.” The video was recorded two years ago but just came to the attention of the district Thursday. A formal investigation has been launched.
The Olmsted County Sheriff's Office is mourning the loss of one of its deputies. Sheriff Kevin Torgerson says Deputy Mark Anderson was found unresponsive in the staff locker room Thursday at the Adult Detention Center. Life-saving measures were performed at the scene before Anderson was taken to St. Mary's Hospital where he died. The sheriff said it appears 52-year-old Anderson died of a medical issue. He had been a detention deputy since March 2010. Anderson was the first Olmsted County sheriff's deputy to die on duty since Deputy Jack Werner was fatally shot in May of 1977.
Two Wisconsin Republicans in the U-S House voted "no" this week on a plan to create a study committee on reparations. Congressmen Tom Tiffany and Scott Fitzgerald voted with the Republican minority on the House Judiciary Committee to oppose a decades-long effort to consider reparations for descendants of slaves. Their offices did not issue any statements regarding the votes. It's the first time the committee has acted on the measure, first introduced by Michigan Congressman John Conyers in 1989. The bill advanced to the House floor on a 25-to-17 vote.
Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett are among several mayors backing an Amtrak plan for expanded passenger rail service. The mayors of the two Wisconsin cities plus Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul wrote a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg Thursday saying there’s a potential for passenger rail to bring opportunity to the Midwest region, connecting cities nationwide “in a more sustainable manner.” Amtrak first revealed plans earlier this month about what it would do if the Biden administration’s two-point-three-trillion-dollar infrastructure package is passed. The Amtrak plan includes a new route extending from Duluth, Minnesota to Milwaukee, joining the busy Hiawatha service to Chicago.
The Minnesota Department of Health is sounding the alarm after four Minnesotans who traveled to Mexico tested positive for a COVID-19 variant. Officials say the cases of the Brazilian strain were confirmed in different families that stayed at the Grand Moon Palace in Cancun between March 12th and 23rd. State deputy epidemiologist Doctor Richard Danilla says anyone who has traveled internationally should get tested three to five days after returning home to Minnesota.
Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Devin Lemahieu says there is a real learning curve associated with the political position and he got off to what he calls “maybe a rocky start.” The Republican leader was interviewed by WisPolitics-dot-com President Jeff Mayers Thursday. LeMahieu told Mayers he worked with Democratic Governor Tony Evers on a COVID-19 relief bill because he thought it was important to get something done. Assembly Republicans advanced their own bill and the Wisconsin Senate eventually approved that version – only to have Evers veto it.
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