The Durand City and Rural Fire Departments are exploring replacing a 30yr old fire truck in the next few years. With the recent fire downtown that required assistance from the Menomonie Fire Departments Ladder Truck, it has been discussed that is what should be purchased for Durand. Fire Chief Jamie King is to make a presentation to the council, and Mayor Milliren says the presentation will talk about where a ladder truck might be used. A new fire truck would cost about $850,000 while a ladder truck would cost about $1.2 million.
The Buffalo County Health Department is working on getting to covid 19 vaccines out to more residents. The Health Department is asking for businesses and community organizations to host vaccination clinics. Sarah Schlaefer says those interested should contact the health department. The number of people receiving the vaccine has plateaued in many counties here in Western Wisconsin.
The Mondovi City Council has delayed moving forward with a proposed pickleball court development. During this weeks meeting Mayor Weiss told council members of the decision to delay discussion on the proposal as organizers were still talking with the Mondovi School District on possible options for a court. The Mayor hopes to have more information in May.
Charges have been filed in Eau Claire County Circuit Court against a Fall Creek woman accused of stealing 60-thousand dollars from a developmentally disabled victim. Forty-four-year-old Michelle Eisold of Fall Creek faces a charge of felony theft, false representation. It was filed Tuesday in Eau Claire. A county Human Service social worker reported the theft, telling detectives the victim received a 90-thousand-dollar life insurance payout after her mother died. Eisold told the detectives a 46-thousand-dollar check she got from the victim was a gift. Prosecutors say there were additional large cash withdrawals over a three-month period last year.
The reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for killing 15 cats in rural Dunn County has been raised. The Dunn County Humane Society says that donations have raised the reward from $500 to $3000. The Human Society says that 18 other cats were found alive in the incident and are recovering but are not available for adoption at this time.
Wisconsin’s Democratic governor and Republican lawmakers are still at odds over the governor’s 91-billion-dollar state budget proposal. Governor Tony Evers says he’s not meeting with the lawmakers because he’s listening to what the people of Wisconsin want. Evers says Republicans in the Legislature should do the same thing. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says his party is listening to the people. The G-O-P controls the budget-writing Joint Finance Committee where members are expected to remove many of the governor’s priorities when they meet – possibly as soon as next week.
Republicans in Minnesota's congressional delegation are urging Governor Walz to forgive the state tax on Pay Protection Program loans to small businesses. Representatives Tom Emmer, Jim Hagedorn, Michelle Fischbach, and Pete Stauber wrote the governor requesting the federal funding be tax-exempt. Congressman Stauber said, "Minnesota’s businesses required these P-P-P loans through no fault of their own, and it is unacceptable for the Governor to punish them again by taxing this much-needed relief." Walz didn't implement any special tax on the P-P-P loans. Tax conformity is part of bipartisan legislation passed by the Minnesota Senate.
A Wisconsin Dells man will give up his extradition fight and go to Michigan to face charges over his role in a plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Brian Higgins dropped his appeal last week. Michigan prosecutors say he helped with surveillance in the case and offered his night vision goggles to the men involved. The F-B-I says members of a Michigan-based militia planned to kidnap Whitmer and possibly put her on trial for the coronavirus restrictions she put in place during the pandemic.
A Dane County judge says Republican legislative leaders cannot pre-emptively spend taxpayer money on private lawyers ahead of a possible fight on redistricting. The ruling means that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu have to get back the money they paid to the firms. One of those contracts could have cost taxpayers almost a million dollars, and G-O-P leaders have been paying the lawyers 30-thousand dollars a month since December.
Some conservationists are calling Wisconsin’s wolf hunt politically motivated and harmful. A group called "Wisconsin’s Green Fire" says hunters took too many alpha males and bred female wolves, and that could eliminate pup production in 60-percent of Wisconsin’s wolf packs. Green Fire’s report also says the hunt damaged relations with the Ojibwe tribes and exposed a gap between regulators at the Department of Natural Resources and state lawmakers. Hunters in Wisconsin killed 218 wolves during what turned out to be just a three-day season in February.
A prominent Minnesota House Republican is joining the push by Governor Tim Walz and Democrats for additional police reforms this legislative session. Representative Tim Miller from Prinsburg says Philando Castile's mother, Valerie, ultimately changed his mind. Miller says Valerie made a comment saying she doesn't understand how a Christian person cannot listen to what's going on and doing something about it - and he first thought it was offensive. But he says "God checked my spirit and said you need to listen to what she's saying." Miller has not indicated which police reforms he'd support but says he wants to work on passing legislation. Cambridge Republican Brian Johnson accuses Democrats of listening to their liberal activist base and pushing "partisan proposals... without input or support from law enforcement organizations."
Wisconsin public health officials say so-called “breakthrough cases” are very rare. Those are instances where people who have been fully vaccinated go on to test positive for COVID-19. Health officials report just three one-hundredths-of-a-percent have had that experience. That’s basically one in every three thousand. Wisconsin’s number of breakthrough cases is said to be about four times higher than the national rate reported by the U-S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It ought to be a fantastic weekend for the fishing opener, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Fisheries supervisor David Rowe says that, unlike other years, the northern and southern halves of the state are in about the same position timewise when it comes to the fish spawning cycles. License sales were up last year thanks to the pandemic and Rowe is expecting big sales this year as well. You can get your license and more online with the GoWild app or get one at your local bait and sports shop.
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