A program aimed at finding lost or wandering individuals is received a donation from the Durand Lions Club. Project Lifesaver provides a program to help law enforcement a program to protect and when necessary quickly locate individuals with cognitive disorders who may wander off. The Lions are donating $1100 to the program through the Pepin County Sheriff's Department, a Project Lifesaver member.
An area business is looking at expanding. During last week's Durand City Council Meeting, Administrator Rassmuesson talked about a possible expansion of Marron Foods. The company is wanting to make sure it will still have proper access to Hwy 10 when the new Kwik Trip is constructed. The administrator also told council members of a possible grant to help with the infrastructure of the new Kwik Trip that would come from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources asks for the public's help with Operation Deer Watch this month. The DNR is asking volunteers to report deer sightings including bucks, does, and fawns between now and September 1st and report the sightings on the DNR Website. The DNR and County Deer Advisory Councils use the data from the survey to develop a deer season framework, harvest quotas, and permit level recommendations. For more information visit the DNR website.
A Menomonie teen has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in a sexual assault case. 17yr old John Stai, pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor counts of exposing himself to a child. The charges stem from an incident where a girl told authorities the contact started when she was in kindergarten and continued until the 6th grade. Stai admitted to doing inappropriate things with the girl when he was 8yrs old and into his teens. The charges will be dropped in four years if Stai does community service, does not break any laws, and receives a psychosexual evaluation.
The Wabasha County Board is meeting Tuesday. Items on the agenda include discussion and approval of maintenance agreements with cities in the county, an American Rescue Plan Consulting Services Agreement, and a review of the quarterly financial reports. Tomorrow's meeting begins at 9am at the Wabasha County Government Center.
Nearly 14 thousand people living in Wisconsin have every reason to worry they will be evicted over the next two months. Members of Congress have left Washington for the six-week August recess without extending the federal freeze on evictions. Nationwide, three-point-six million Americans are at risk. Madison-based Feeding the Youth reports it has seen requests for rental help more than triple in the last week. C-E-O Jazzman Brown says her organization normally gets five-to-10 requests each month. Most of the 48 requests for help received recently came in during the last week of July.
A new report finds Wisconsin and other states failed to meet federal rules for clearing unemployment appeals. The Legislative Audit Bureau has found that the state Department of Workforce Development failed to comply with federal regulations regarding unemployment appeals between June 2020 and May 2021, as the coronavirus pandemic swept the state and nation. That means that less than 80 percent of appeals were resolved in 45 days, and the average age of appeals filed that are awaiting a hearing is 58 days. That's nearly two weeks more than the number of days allowed by federal regulations. The LAB also compared Wisconsin's appeals data with four surrounding states and found none were in compliance with the federal guidance, either. Wisconsin ranked third out of the five states studied.
Family members of a Wisconsin Marine killed in a training accident last year have filed a lawsuit. Nineteen-year-old Evan Bath of Oak Creek and eight other service members died when the amphibious assault vehicle sank during an exercise in California. They were trapped inside by a defective cargo hatch door. The Bath family is suing B-A-E Systems, the maker of the assault vehicle. They claim the company knew about the problem for years and never took steps to correct it. Federal law prevents families from suing the U-S military. The family is asking the Marines to stop using the A-A-V.
Bond is set at one million dollars cash for the La Cross County triple homicide suspects. Forty-one-year-old Khamthaneth Rattanasack and 33-year-old Nya Thao made their first court appearances Friday afternoon. They're accused of killing 24-year-olds Peng Lor and Nemo Yang and 23-year-old Trevor Maloney in the Town of Hamilton. A witness said Rattanasack ordered the three victims to kneel on the ground and Thao shot them multiple times. Investigators said a possible cause was a dispute over a 600-dollar debt. Rattanasack and Thao could face life prison sentences if convicted of three counts of first-degree intentional homicide.
Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he's expanding a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 presidential election. The Republican leader said Friday that former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman will be named "special counsel," with authority to hire full-time investigators. In a statement, Vos said, “It has become clear that a top-to-bottom investigation will take longer than initially anticipated and will require more manpower to complete." Vos has already agreed to pay Gabelman 44-thousand dollars through October and hired two retired police detectives to review the election. It's not immediately clear how much additional tax money will be needed. President Joe Biden won the state by more than 20-thousand votes.
Wisconsin’s governor and Assembly speaker agree that the state needs to help people back to work at struggling businesses, but they don’t agree on how to do it. Governor Tony Evers and Speaker Robin Vos have starkly different ideas. Evers wants Wisconsin lawmakers to spend an additional 550 million dollars on schools to help with the state’s worker shortage. Vos is demanding Wisconsin put an end to enhanced unemployment benefits so he says people will return to work more quickly. Wisconsin businesses have repeatedly said they can’t find qualified people to apply for their openings.
The Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office is mourning the death of one of its police dogs. Officials say K9 Deputy Rajko died at 11:30 a-m today (Friday) surrounded by his handler, Sergeant Ryan Mangan, and those who loved him. The sheriff's office said in a statement, "Rajko’s medical condition deteriorated due to cancer that was discovered earlier this week and there simply was no other option but to save Rajko from further pain.” He served for eight years and won several awards at national, state, and regional K-9 trials. Deputies are asking everyone to "please keep Rajko, Ryan, and their family in hearts as Rajko runs freely across The Rainbow Bridge.”
State and local officials are trying to convince a company in southeast Minnesota not to move dozens of jobs to China. A recent announcement indicated the Miken Sports plant in Caledonia would be phased out over the next two years. Some of the work would be moved to Missouri. The change means at least 80 workers will lose their jobs. The Rawlings company has said it will save at least four million dollars by moving production jobs out of the plant. It has been operating there since 1999. U-S Senator Tina Smith’s office says she will get involved. Miken Sports makes equipment for Major League Baseball
The Wisconsin State Patrol is welcoming 42 new state troopers. The 66th Recruiting Class was officially sworn into duty at a graduation ceremony Friday in La Crosse. The 42 officers just completed 26 weeks of training in traffic and criminal laws, emergency vehicle operations, firearms proficiency, communications, crisis management, and lifesaving skills. After graduating from the State Patrol Academy at Ft. McCoy, new officers are assigned to one of the State Patrol’s seven regional posts. Governor Tony Evers joined the ceremony and thanked and congratulated the latest State Patrol recruiting class.
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