One person is dead after having a medical emergency on the fishing float near Alma on Sunday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriffs Department, 38yr old Willam Korn from Chippewa Falls collapsed on the float and became unresponsive. Witnesses began CPR and contacted emergency services. Law enforcement and EMS also provided life-saving measures but were unsuccessful.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion of the Schmidtknecht Road Construction for the new Wastewater Treatment plant, grant funding for playground equipment at city parks, approval of the new Wastwater Utility Rates for the city, and approve a joint meeting with the Mondovi School Board on September 15th. Tonight's meeting begins at 6:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
The man that led authorities on a high-speed chase through Pierce, Pepin, Buffalo, and other counties made his first court appearance on Monday. 22yr old Timothy Chambers was charged in Wood County with Bail Jumping and Resisting arrest after the August 4th pursuit that led to $11,000 in damage to a Pepin County Squad Car. Charges have also been filed in Buffalo, and Pierce County in relation to the pursuit. He is being held on a $50,000 cash bond.
Today is the final day for residents in Martell, Trimbelle, Trenton, Ellsworth, Heartland, Diamond Bluff, and Isabelle townships to register for well-testing kits from the Pierce County Health Department. Test kits will be mailed to those registered and then can be dropped off on August 30th. Kits are $35 and for more information, you are to contact the Pierce County Health Department.
Masks will be optional this year for students and staff in the Menomonie School District. At last night's board meeting the board voted 5-4 after a 3hr debate on the topic. Those opposed to mandatory requirements felt it was the parent's decision and not the district on whether or not students should wear a mask. The district will not require vaccination among students or staff but is strongly recommending it.
The Wisconsin State Patrol will conduct aerial enforcement of speed and traffic laws this Thursday in Eau Claire County and on Saturday in Dunn County. The patrol will be conducting the enforcement over I-94 in both counties. The State Patrol says the goal of the enforcement is voluntary compliance of the traffic laws. In a social media post, the patrol said during aerial enforcement over I-43 in Walworth County, they cited one driver for speeding at 105 mph.
The chairperson of the committee conducting one of three election reviews in Wisconsin is defending the validity of the subpoenas her group has issued. The Legislative Counsel said only Assembly Speaker Robin Vos had the authority to issue subpoenas to compel testimony or produce records or documents. State Representative Janel Brandtjen says she didn’t use Chapter 13. The Republican says Chapter 885 spelled out how the subpoenas should be made out, Officials in Milwaukee and Brown counties have been ordered to appear before her committee next month. Those officials haven’t said if they will comply.
University of Minnesota officials say they will require students to be vaccinated against COVID once the vaccine receives full F-D-A approval which is expected in the coming weeks. President Joan Gabel says it will give the University the best chance for normal campus activity this fall and uninterrupted in-person, on-campus instruction. Faculty and staff must either be vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19. And Minnesota State Fair General Manager Jerry Hammer said Monday that, although no decision has been made, masks could be required at indoor attractions. The State Fair opens on August 26th and runs for 12 days.
The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit the Boscobel area last weekend was the strongest storm in Wisconsin since 2008. Survey teams increased their estimate of the top wind speeds to 160 miles an hour after examining the damage. More than a dozen homes and more than two dozen outbuildings were destroyed by the E-F-3 tornado. The storm was on the ground for 10-and-a-half miles and its path was up to 11-hundred yards wide. The last tornado that strong touched down in Kenosha. Starting Sunday and lasting through Monday, hundreds of neighbors worked together on the clean-up.
Demolition on some old buildings will start in a couple of weeks at the Port of Milwaukee. That will clear some space for construction on a new agriculture export terminal. Port officials say the 35-million-dollar project will create a facility for products like dried distillers' goods, grain, corn, and soybeans. Port Milwaukee Director Adam Tindall-Schlicht says when it is in operation it will increase the activity by 300 to 500 metric tons of product each year. Backers hope to have it going by April 2023.
The president of the Wisconsin Senate is urging health care workers to take action against vaccine mandates if they’re opposed. The stance by Senate President Chris Kapenga is alarming some health care officials who are dealing with a surge of new infections. The Republican Kapenga said he wanted to encourage the groups that are forming to stick to their principles and “don’t give in.” Kapenga told reporters he wasn’t suggesting that health care workers should go on strike, but just be persistent in their beliefs.
A Milwaukee man has been sentenced to 46 years in prison for a home invasion and sexual assault. Prosecutors told the court 22-year-old Bobby A Clayton and some accomplices broke into the home in January 2018. Clayton is accused of sexually assaulting the 76-year-old woman who was living there. He was arrested in Juneau County after he crashed the vehicle he had stolen from the victim. Clayton was sentenced in Monroe County Circuit Court last week by Judge Mark Goodman.
Environmental protesters in Green Bay maintain that there has never been a pipeline that doesn’t leak. A group showed up at the City Deck Saturday to demand construction on two pipelines that run through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan be stopped. Organizers say work on the pipelines violates treaties signed with Native Americans. They say the oil companies are destroying wild rice fields. Enbridge Energy says its construction permits include conditions specifically to protect wide rice waters. They say the two pipelines have co-existed there for more than seven decades with no major problems.
The Wisconsin hotel industry is getting a boost from money from the American Rescue Plan Act. Governor Evers says grants of two million dollars were released this weekend to nearly 900 lodging businesses around the state to help them offset some of the losses they incurred during the pandemic. The tourism industry supports more than 157-thousand jobs in Wisconsin and had an economic impact last year of more than 17 billion dollars.
Amid a surge in new COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin, state Superintendent Jill Underly is strongly recommending that Wisconsin school district require masks when students return to in-person classes this fall. The recommendation is similar to that made last month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state's largest districts, Milwaukee and Madison, are requiring masks, but many rural and suburban districts are not.
Crews broke ground on a new Minnesota Veterans Home in Preston Monday. Governor Tim Walz was on hand and said helping veterans is something everyone can rally behind. The administration plans to highlight the state's commitment to veterans over the next several days including efforts around suicide prevention and ending veteran homelessness.
No rain means no standing water and that’s good for mosquito control. Officials with the Metropolitan Mosquito Control District in the Twin Cities say the drought is why there are so few of the pests buzzing around this summer. The numbers are way down, well below the 10-year average. Scientists say the mosquito numbers have been four to eight times lower than a normal year at some points. Some areas got rain last weekend, but it’s too late. Most mosquito species in Minnesota have already gone through their life cycles. This could also affect next summer.
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