The Pepin Area School District's School-Wide Mitigation Transition Plan took effect on Tuesday. The district is at level 4 which means that students will be required to wear a mask indoors and on school busses, while staff will be required to wear a mask when not alone. All adult visitors will also be required to wear a mask. The district is also offering hybrid learning options for students who are in quarantine and other students who have parental approval and have had success in the hybrid learning model. Lunches will be served in homeroom instead of the cafeteria.
The Pepin County Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include annual reports from the Durand Public Library and District Attorney's Office, revisiting the Pepin County Government Facility Covid-19 plan, discussion of the tentative redistricting plan, and discussion of amendments to the ATV/UTV routes ordinance that would open up all county roads as ATV/UTV routes unless otherwise posted and allow certified operators 12-15 to operate on the routes under the direct supervision of a parent. Tonight's meeting begins at 7pm at the Government Center and will also be available via zoom on the county website.
Ntec and the Town of Albany are discussing a partnership to bring fiber internet to the township. Ntec published a form on their social media asking Town of Albany residents to complete to gauge the interest in fiber internet. While not a commitment to sign up for service, Ntce is asking residents to fill out the form to see if there are enough people interested to move forward with the project.
One person was injured when a truck rolled over at Rowan Enterprises in Elk Mound. According to the Dunn County Sheriff's Department, a 69yr old man was under the truck doing repairs when it slipped into gear and rolled, trapping the man underneath. He was transported to the hospital, and no foul play is suspected in the accident.
Buffalo County residents now have to dial 10 digits for phone calls. The change was effective yesterday. The Federal Communications Commission regulated the change for the entire 608 area code Residents will now have to dial the area code along with the 7 local numbers to place a call. If long-distance don't forget to dial 1 then the 10 digits. The 608 area code was one of the last area codes in Wisconsin to switch to 10 digit dialing for local calls.
The National Weather Service is confirming at least one tornado touched down Monday night in western Wisconsin. A La Crosse survey team determined there was an EF-1 twister in northern Trempealeau County near Sturm. A home and cabin suffered damage, a pole barn was destroyed and a silo was knocked down in the area. The twister had peak wind speeds of 105 miles per hour and was on the ground for nearly nine miles.
Eau Claire School Board President Tim Nordin stopped Monday night's meeting because members of the public refused to wear face masks. Nordin called a halt to the meeting after just a few minutes.
A man from Arizona is now charged with the killings of four Minnesotans found in an abandoned S-U-V in western Wisconsin. Thirty-eight-year-old Antoine Suggs is facing four counts of second-degree murder in Ramsey County. Suggs is accused in the shooting deaths of 26-year-old Matthew Pettus, 30-year-old Jasmine Sturm, and 35-year-old Loyace Foreman III of St. Paul, and 30-year-old Nitosha Lee Flug-Presley of Stillwater. He and his father, 56-year-old Darren McWright Osbourne, are also charged with four counts of hiding a corpse in Dunn County, Wisconsin, where the bodies were discovered on September 12th. Suggs is an Arizona jail awaiting extradition to Minnesota.
The University of Wisconsin System has returned to pre-pandemic levels of in-person instruction for the fall semester. UW System President Tommy Thompson announced Tuesday that systemwide, 85 percent of undergraduate courses are being delivered in person. That exceeds the goal of 75 percent that Thompson set in February when more classes than usual were delivered remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Madison, La Crosse, and Prattville campuses are all above 90 percent in-person classes, Eau Claire is at 87%, River Falls 83%, and Stout is at 75%.
A weekend bicycle accident on the trails in the bluffs east of La Crosse has left the rider with moderate injuries. The man involved hasn’t been identified. The Urban Search and Rescue team with the La Crosse Fire Department responded Sunday at 1:41 p-m. The victim was rushed to Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center by ambulance. A spokesperson for the Fire Department says the accident happened near a county road on the La Crosse Ridge.
Police in Wisconsin Rapids say one of the department’s officers is recovering from a weekend dog attack. The officer’s name hasn’t been released. He was checking on the status of a juvenile runaway when a large dog charged out of a home Saturday morning and starting biting him. The officer fired his gun after the third time he was bitten. The dog was turned over to a veterinarian for treatment and testing. The officer was treated at a hospital and released.
A Republican running for Wisconsin governor has tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson for Rebecca Kleefisch says she was vaccinated earlier this year. Kleefisch was exposed while attending church on September 12th. She was informed about the exposure four days later and tested positive on September 17th. The former Wisconsin lieutenant governor says she is feeling fine, but the campaign has canceled upcoming events. Close contacts are being notified.
The lead investigator of the vaccine trial at U-W Health says Monday’s announcement about the safety of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children is encouraging. Doctor Bill Hartman is heading the trial for Moderna. The two-dose series for children is about one-third of the dosage for adults. Hartman says results released Monday indicate the shots for young kids will be just as effective as those taken by adults. Side effects were minimal in the trial. Hartman says the safety profile and data about the effectiveness of Moderna’s vaccine for children should be released over the next month or so.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development is now accepting applications for the Minnesota Main Street COVID Relief Grant Program. DEED Commissioner Steve Grove says this is 64-point-two-million dollars that will be awarded in grant amounts of 10-thousand or 25-thousand dollars based on the size of a company. The funds will be distributed through a lottery and priority will be given to businesses owned by military veterans, women, people of color, companies with less than six workers and those who didn't receive assistance through other programs. The grants will be split between the Twin Cities and greater Minnesota. The application deadline for this round is September 29th.
Statues damaged during last summer's unrest in Madison are back in place on the grounds of the Wisconsin state Capitol. The two statues pulled down on the night of June 23 2020 were of Forward, a female figure outside the Capitol at the top of State Street, and Colonel Hans Christian Heg, a Norwegian immigrant killed during the Civil War. The action followed a day of demonstrations over the arrest of activist Devonere Johnson outside a Capitol Square restaurant. The nearly year-long restoration was done by a company. The bulk of the 80-thousand dollar project was paid for by federal grants, the remainder through insurance and donations to the State Historical Society.
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