Some Durand property owners on Drier Street have some concerns over the upcoming reconstruction project. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says there were two areas of concern. The Public Works Department will be holding a meeting on Monday to discuss the issues with the curb and gutter.
UW Stout was host to a public meeting on the Governor's proposed budget yesterday. Residents and leaders from Western Wisconsin discussed budget issues important to them including spending for improvements to UW System Campus, public school spending, and shared revenue for cities. Another public meeting will be held virtually on April 28th.
Chippewa Falls police are accusing a 65-year-old suspect of taking cash from the rectory at the Notre Dame Church Sunday night. Alvin Coffman is charged with burglary and criminal damage to property. The priest says he had gone into the office and noticed a window had been smashed out and money was missing. It’s not clear how much cash was taken. Investigators say the suspect from Chippewa Falls has been arrested three times in the past for burglaries involving Holy Ghost Parish.
When local, county and state authorities executed a search warrant at the home where a convicted felon was living Wednesday they discovered nearly 50 firearms. Forty-seven-year-old Leonard Peil was taken into custody and formal charges are pending. Bloomer police, the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department, and the Wisconsin State Patrol knocked on Peil’s door at 9:00 a-m. A search of the property turned up 49 guns, more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, and more than 30-thousand dollars in cash. He faces multiple counts of being a felon in possession of firearms. Peil appeared in Chippewa County Court Thursday.
Reckless homicide charges have been filed against a truck driver who caused a crash that left a three-year-old girl dead. The victim was a passenger in a van that slammed into a guard rail along Interstate 94 in St. Croix County, then was hit by an S-U-V. Investigators say Michael Duvik of Kentucky was driving a tractor-trailer truck and was switching lanes back and forth while speeding. The driver of the van said Duvik was passing her on the right side when he came into her lane and forced her to hit the guardrail. The accident happened in October 2019. When she honked at him, one of her children said Duvik made an obscene gesture. Another truck driver was operating a dashcam and submitted the video to authorities.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says the 28-year-old Hixton woman charged with driving while her license was revoked last year had been charged with the same offense at least six previous times. This time a passenger, Michael Greengrass, was ejected from the vehicle and died. Autumn Holbach was charged Wednesday with knowingly operating a motor vehicle while revoked, causing the death of another. The accident happened last December in Jackson County when Holbach lost control. She told investigators she had reached down to pick up a cigarette when the car went out of control.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is launching an investigation into clergy abuse at Wisconsin's Catholic Dioceses. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel obtained a letter from Attorney General Josh Kaul that was sent to the state's five dioceses laying out his intent to do a full investigation and determine the scope of the abuse. The letter goes on to request a meeting with the leaders of the state's five dioceses next Monday to discuss the investigation and requests that Catholic leadership preserve all documents and information. The Church has previously released lists of priests and other clergy known to have abused people but never listed out who the victims might be or how many of them there are
Authorities in southeastern Minnesota report two people are okay after a plane crash near the Faribault Airport Thursday afternoon. The Rice County Sheriff's Office says the single-engine fixed-wing aircraft went down in a plowed field a half-mile south of the runway. The plane had just taken off. Deputies identified the pilot as 25-year-old Skyler Hackett of Prior Lake and his passenger was 33-year-old Todd Guyette from Osceola, Wisconsin. There were both uninjured. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
An Earth Day executive order signed by Governor Evers calls for planting 75 million trees by 2030 and conserving 125-thousand acres of forest land. The governor's office says the pledge will result in 28-point-eight million metric tons of carbon dioxide stored over the next 50 years. Evers says sustainably managing Wisconsin forests will not only generate climate change mitigation benefits but also contributes 24-point-four billion annually to Wisconsin’s economy, supports the health of our citizens, and helps maintain the high quality of life that defines our state.
Spring is here, which means one thing for farmers: It’s time to hit the fields. Road travel with agricultural implements is an increased hazard, and often a dreaded part of farming. Sharing the road means farmers need to have their vehicles meeting legal requirements as well as operating in a safe manner for road travel. According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 34 people have been killed and 684 injured since 2010 in crashes involving agricultural equipment in Wisconsin. Motorists are reminded that it is illegal to pass farm machinery in a no-passing zone.
Governor Tony Evers on Thursday vetoed a package of Republican legislation that would have directed how the state should allocate more than three billion dollars in federal COVID-19 relief money. The Democratic governor also announced some 420 million dollars of the federal money coming to Wisconsin will fund a grant program* to assist small businesses. The governor said about 84-thousand businesses with annual gross revenues between ten thousand dollars and seven million dollars could qualify for awards of five thousand dollars. More information will come after the U.S. Treasury provides more details about how the money is to be used.
A review of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation finds the state agency is improving, but still lacking in some areas. The report from the Legislative Audit Bureau finds that the W-E-D-C mostly complied with state law during the last fiscal year. It apparently didn’t always award tax credits for wages paid as required by law. Auditors say it also sometimes waited more than a year to revoke credits for businesses that failed to live up to their contracts with the state. In the 10 years since the W-E-D-C was formed, only about one-third of businesses getting tax credit actually created the promised number of jobs.
A public safety budget bill passed in the Minnesota House Wednesday night includes police reform measures that have little chance in the Republican-controlled Senate. Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says last July the legislature passed "the most comprehensive police accountability bill" he can remember, and in Derek Chauvin trial "I don't think anybody can say that justice wasn't served." Democratic Representative Cedrick Frazier from New Hope responds the community sees the Chauvin verdict as "rarely-found accountability, but not lasting justice. "
When a thief got away from authorities during a pursuit, he may have thought he was free and clear. He was wrong. Deputies with the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office say they used G-M’s On-Star service to track the 2016 Chevrolet pick up and take Shawn Wheeler into custody. He was arrested in the parking lot of an A-and-W restaurant in Waupun. Deputies had started looking for Wheeler Monday night when a 9-1-1 caller asked for a welfare check. When a deputy found him in the Village of Kingston, Wheeler allegedly refused to stop. He got away by driving through a field, but the truck’s owner contacted On-Star and had the vehicle shut down.
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