The Mondovi School Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion on Covid Protocols and Mask Mandate, the board will also go into closed session to discuss personnel matters on the Athletic Concession Building Budget. Tonight's meeting begins at 8pm at the Cafeteria at Mondovi High School.
Advent Health of Durand says that flu shots have arrived. According to Angela Jacobson, Director of Emergency Preparedness at Advent Health, those interested in a flu shot should contact either Durand Clinic. Heike Pharmacy of Durand will also be offering flu shots this fall.
The University of Wisconsin System announced today that UW-Stout has attained a 70 percent vaccination rate among students. “Momentum continues to build across the UW System for student vaccination,” said System President Tommy Thompson. “I thank the students and employees at UW-Stout for their commitment to health and safety. This is a great accomplishment.” UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW Oshkosh, and UW-Whitewater have already reached the 70 percent threshold. UW-Madison, which is running its own vaccination campaign, has a student vaccination rate over 90 percent. The System announced last week that it had extended by two weeks the deadline for its Vax Up! “70 for 70” campaign to encourage students to become vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. The new deadline is October 31, 2021.
A western Wisconsin man convicted by a jury for his role in a deadly shooting in New Richmond is going to prison. Monday, Joshua Cameron was sentenced in St. Croix County Court for reckless homicide and related charges. He got 13 years in prison. Cameron and Sovereignty Sovereign, who legally changed his name from Andrew Helmueller, were charged in the August 2020 fatal shooting of Richard Rose. Witnesses said Cameron shot him in the leg with a 22-caliber gun. The bullet struck Rose's femoral artery, and he died. Sovereign is set to go to trial in January.
The Rochester Police Department is now offering a 25-thousand-dollar reward for information that leads to arrests in two unsolved killings. Twenty-seven-year-old April Sorenson was found murdered in her home on April 17th, 2007 after firefighters arrived to put out a fire allegedly set by her killer. The other death involves 41-year-old Robert Volgmann – who was discovered dead in his apartment last April. Police believe Volgmann was assaulted several days earlier. Investigators believe that someone knows what happened to Sorenson and Volgmann. Anyone with tips is asked to contact the Rochester P-D or CrimeStoppers.
The Federal Aviation Administration is confirming that three people were killed in a plane crash Tuesday in Forest County. The F-A-A's preliminary report says the small plane crashed under unknown conditions in a swampy area near Eagle River. A pilot and two passengers died. Officials say the Rockwell 690-B aircraft is considered destroyed. Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport director Matthew Leitner confirmed that the aircraft took off there at 8:45 Tuesday morning. Shortly after 9:30 a-m the airport was alerted to a report of a missing plane by air traffic controllers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, which monitors the skies in northern Wisconsin. No names have been released. Reports indicate the plane is registered to a company in Chesterfield, Missouri.
Natural gas is used to heat two out of three homes in Minnesota and the cost to heat this winter is going up. Natural gas prices have increased by 180 percent since last September. CenterPoint Energy reports natural gas last September was 60 cents per therm. It now costs one dollar, nine cents a therm. Supply was up during the pandemic, while demand was down – but that has now switched and the increased demand is part of the reason for the cost increase.
Shortages caused by a lack of truck drivers and employees are leaving some stores with spaces on their shelves. The president and co-owner of Metcalfe's Markets in Wauwatosa, Tim Metcalfe, says the shortages come and go for various items. said they're experiencing shortages in different products across the board. He says there have been shortages of dog food, cat food, some bottled juices, and some frozen dinners. Metcalfe says it depends on the manufacturers and where they're from and what particular problems they're having.
Nearly 200 Minnesota health workers are filing a federal lawsuit over the pending requirement that they be vaccinated against COVID-19 or risk losing their jobs. Incoming Minnesota Medical Association president Doctor Randy Rice calls the legal challenge "unfortunate." The suit alleges an infringement on health care workers' rights. Rice says it's "always a challenge balancing one person's rights over another but when patients come to a hospital, they have a right to be adequately protected." He also notes that health care workers have a high risk of exposure to COVID.
The Minnesota D-N-R says it recently learned that deer farms in Minnesota received deer from a Wisconsin farm where chronic wasting disease was discovered in August. Officials found out Monday in a Milwaukee newspaper story that the farm in Wisconsin sold nearly 400 deer to 40 farms in seven states. The Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed that a pair of farms in Stillwater and Clear Lake got a total of five deer from the Wisconsin farm with C-W-D between 2016 and 2017. The deer from Stillwater were transferred to a Wisconsin farm in late 2019. The D-N-R is trying to determine if those two are still alive and have been tested for C-W-D.
Republicans on the state legislature have passed a resolution that affirms their plans to retain as much as possible current legislative maps ahead of redistricting in Wisconsin. Assembly minority leader Gordon Hintz says the effort shows that Republicans want to hold onto power over the state through gerrymandering. The resolution does not need to pass the Governor's desk since it makes no changes to state law. A probable fight over legislative maps is already set for both federal and state courts.
On a party-line vote, the Wisconsin Assembly has prohibited the teaching of Critical Race Theory. That’s a concept that systemic racism and implicit bias exist in the country’s institutions and it maintains the dominance of whites in modern society. Opponents point out that no K-through-12 public schools in Wisconsin include the concepts in their curricula. Democratic Governor Tony Evers is almost certain to veto the measure. Republicans have passed similar legislation in several states.
A Wisconsin couple is headed home to Markesan after experiencing the Amtrak derailment last weekend in Montana. Carrie and Keith Schoeffling were on the Empire Builder when it jumped the tracks. Three people were killed. Carrie Schoeffling says the accident was very violent, with things flying around. Afterward, they could hear many of the injured screaming. They say help came quickly from out of nowhere. Men with trucks and ladders arrived even before emergency responders. An Amtrak waitress crawled out of the dining car and was “passing out water and finding blankets for people” while she was covered in blood and dirt. Amtrak provided the Schoeffling’s a car so they could drive home. They said they don’t intend to get on a train at any time in the near future.
The October 15th deadline is fast approaching for military members who served in a combat zone in 2017 to claim a special Minnesota tax credit. The state Revenue Department's Ryan Brown says about 11-hundred servicemembers have not claimed it yet. Brown says nearly 800-thousand dollars in refunds that have already gone out for that 2017 credit, and that makes an average refund of around 674 dollars. To qualify for the credit, service members must have been a Minnesota resident during the time of service... served in a combat zone or qualified hazardous duty area during 2017... and received combat pay that's exempt from federal and Minnesota income tax.
Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers have increased slightly. The Wisconsin Hospital Association says about 11-hundred people were in the hospital with the virus in Wisconsin late Tuesday. That’s up a bit from last week. Intensive Care Unit beds are not as full; 320 people are in the I-C-U in Wisconsin with the virus. Hospitals don’t track how many people are admitted solely because of the coronavirus, versus how many are in the hospital for something else, but test positive
The University of Wisconsin-Madison saw a record number of freshmen enroll this fall. Nearly 85-hundred first-year students are on campus. That’s up 12 percent. U-W Madison Provost Karl Scholz says in addition to the interest from students who navigated through COVID-19 protocols, the university’s reputation and standing was a factor in the record numbers. The school says 26 percent of the freshman class come from within the state -- the most in 20 years.
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