There will be two new board members on the Durand-Arkansaw School Board. Unofficial results show that Ashley Urness and Frank Schneider both won their respective seats. Urness will be taking the District 2 seat while Schneider will replace incumbent Audry Martin in the District 5 seat.
Buffalo County Voters have approved a non-binding resolution asking the state to have an independent commission to design the next statewide electoral maps. The vote was 1306 in favor to 562 against. Also last night a tie in the Buffalo City Alderman race between Larry Johansen and George Fuller. Both received 86 votes and in the City of Alma, all three alderperson seats had write-in candidates.
Dunn County will have a new circuit court judge. Christina Mayer, a Menomonie attorney defeated Nicholas Lang to replace Judge Rod Smeltzer who is retiring this year. Mayer started her legal career in Durand before joining a firm in Menomonie. Smeltzer is retiring after spending more than 20yrs as a circuit court judge in Dunn County. Meanwhile, Gregory Gill was elected to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals for District 3, defeating Rick Cveykus.
Jill Underly has won the statewide election to serve as Wisconsin superintendent of schools. Underly had the support of the state teachers’ union and had 14 times as much money for her campaign as Deb Kerr did. The winner got 52 percent of the vote Tuesday. Though the race for D-P-I head is officially nonpartisan, Democrats backed Underly while Republicans were behind Kerr. Underly replaces Carolyn Stanford Taylor who has held the position for the last two years.
One person is dead after a one-vehicle accident in Emerald Township Monday night. According to the St. Croix County Sheriffs Department,a caller at 6am Tuesday morning said there was a car blocking Hwy S and the driver appeared dead. Deputies say 26yr old Luke Loomis of Glenwood City was traveling on Hwy S when he lost control and struck a railroad bridge pillar the night before. The accident is still under investigation.
A Red Wing man faces six felony charges for failing to pay state income tax. The Minnesota Department of Revenue says Eric Donald Olson failed to file his state income tax returns and didn’t pay the tax for 2017-through-2019. Olson is said to be a professional walleye angler who got non-employee compensation from several outdoor equipment suppliers, plus marketing and media companies. Prosecutors estimated he owes nearly 55-thousand dollars in taxes, penalties, and interest. If convicted, he could face a sentence of up to 30 years.
Governor Tony Evers says around 93-hundred small businesses in Wisconsin will share 46-million dollars in federal COVID relief funding. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is awarding them each five-thousand-dollar grants. Evers said in a statement, "our small businesses have had to innovate to stay afloat this past year and that's why it's critically important we make sure they have the resources to bounce back from this pandemic." The 46 million will be distributed to impacted businesses that applied for relief for the "We're All in" phase 2 program last year but for which additional funds were not available. The Department of Revenue says they’ll begin processing the latest grants as quickly as possible.
A group of about 100 Marshfield residents say they want the people running their city investigated and removed from office. Three complaints were filed Monday with the City of Marshfield and the Marshfield Police Department. Targeted are Fire and Police Commissioners Andy Keogh and Randy Gershman, plus seven of the 10 members of the common council. The group filing the complaints says they believe the common council members have committed misconduct. They point to the removal of the mayor from office, violations of open meeting laws, and the failure to maintain electronic records. Similar complaints were filed against Keogh and Gershman.
Minnesota fire officials are reminding Minnesotans not to operate drones near the scene of wildfires this spring. Leanne Langeberg with the Interagency Fire Center says drones pose a dangerous risk to aircraft dropping water and retardants. She says all aircraft responding to a wildfire are required to land or return to base when a drone shows up in their restricted airspace. More than 500 wildland fires across the state have burned nearly 20-thousand acres so far this season.
Sawyer County authorities have identified the woman found dead of a gunshot wound on Friday. 42yr old Cary Elkin of Stone Lake was found early Friday morning after the Sheriff's Department received a call reporting the woman. The Sheriffs Department and Wisconsin Department of Justice continue the investigation but have no suspects at this time. It appears to be an isolated incident and the public is not in danger.
Authorities in Clark County say a 23-year-old shooting suspect is being held there after his arrest in Puerto Rico. Prosecutors are expected to charge Joennuel Moctezuma-Torres with attempted first-degree homicide and first-degree recklessly endangering safety. A second suspect was arrested about a month after the shooting last year. Investigators say surveillance video shows the two suspects leaving the location of the shooting while armed with handguns. Moctezuma-Torres has an initial court appearance scheduled for April 20th. Police say the shooting victim was treated for a gunshot wound and released in February 2020.
Gas prices in the Madison area and in much of Wisconsin are sitting at about a dollar-25 higher than they were at this time last year. Prices have been driven higher by OPEC’s decision to limit production, more drivers on the roads as the U-S emerges from the pandemic, and the Texas cold snap that knocked several refineries off-line. There’s no relief in sight. OPEC is increasing is oil production, but people are driving more miles and many refineries are switching to the more expensive summer blend of gas.
Regional agriculture leaders, including Wisconsin Ag Secretary Randy Romanski, are encouraging people to get vaccinated for COVID-19, and to continue to help slow the spread. The appeal, posted to YouTube on Thursday, includes leaders of agriculture departments from six states (Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Kentucky.)
A family out for a hike on Easter Sunday reports a scary experience when bullets began whizzing overhead. A woman named Heather and her husband were on the Lodi Marsh segment of the Ice Age Trail when things started happening. Heather has asked that their last name not be released. About a mile-and-a-half into their walk they heard several gunshots, then the bullets started to come too close. Heather says they heard a bullet hit a branch above their heads. She and her husband told their children to run and two other hikers on the trail took cover. No one was hit and when Dane County deputies responded to the 9-1-1 call, they couldn’t find the shooters.
A Rochester man is alive Tuesday thanks to the actions of law enforcement officers. The 31-year-old was overdosing on pills Monday night outside a Walgreens store when officers and deputies used Narcan to revive him. A friend told officers he thought the victim had taken Percocet, but investigators believe the drug was more than likely fentanyl. Authorities say they've responded to thousands of cases related to little blue pills over the past four months.
The Wisconsin State Patrol reports a driver stopped twice for speeding on Interstate 41 used the same excuse two times – she had to use the bathroom. The first traffic stop came when she was clocked at 102 miles an hour near Oshkosh. A few minutes later she was stopped for going 90 miles an hour and tried to use the same excuse. That’s when the trooper who stopped her pointed out she had passed four exists with several bathrooms available. The driver’s name hasn’t been released. She was cited for excessive speed.
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