Durand residents in the Laneville Street Construction project will be experiencing water disruptions today. From 8-Noon this morning water will be turned off on Lee Street to connect the new Laneville water main to the existing Lee Stree Watermain. Then from Noon-4 water will be turned off on South Street to connect the South Street water main to the Lee Street water main and on Friday water will be turned off on Country Lane from 8am-4pm to connect the Country Lane water main to the Laneville Water main. The City apologizes for any inconvenience, and those affected should plan on filling containers for drinking or cooking water before the water is turned off.
The man accused of beating two men near Urne in Februray of 2002 is going to prison. On Wednesday, a sentencing hearing for Erick Tepole of Durand was held in Buffalo County Court. Tepole was sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of using a baseball bat and attacking two men near Urne. Both victims were airlifted to hospitals with severe injuries as a result of the attack.
A school district in Western Wisconsin is changing its mask policy due to an increase in Covid-19 cases. The Melrose-Mindoro School District announced on its social media page the change in the policy yesterday. Students in grades 7-12 will be required to wear masks during the school day. The District said the policy change was needed due to a significant number of Covid cases that required the district to contact trace and quarantine students. The district hopes the change will keep the school open and limit the number of students that need to be sent home.
The Trempealeau County Sheriff's Department responded to a report of a suicidal person with a handgun shooting the gun inside a home in Eleva on Tuesday. Law Enforcement secured the area outside of the home and after several attempts, was able to contact the person via telephone. The person was provided assistance with mental health professionals and no one was injured as a result of the discharged handgun nor was the public in danger.
A World War II sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor is returning to Minnesota today (Thursday 2:20 p-m). Nineteen-year-old Navy Seaman 2nd Class Lloyd Todd Timm of Kellogg was among the 429 sailors aboard the U-S-S Oklahoma who died on December 7th, 1941. Timm will receive plane side military honors when his remains arrive at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Timm's remains were unidentified for nearly 80 years at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. Scientists from the Defense P-O-W/M-I-A Accounting Agency and Armed Forces Medical Examiner used dental and anthropological analysis to identify his remains in June of 2015. Timm's funeral is Monday in his hometown of Kellogg.
A man from La Crosse County is pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge for his role in the January 6th U-S Capitol riot. Twenty-four-year-old Abram Markofski entered a guilty plea to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. The National Guard member was initially charged with four counts in May. The plea agreement will allow law enforcement to review his social media accounts and interview him before sentencing on December 3rd. Federal prosecutors say Markofski traveled to Washington, D-C with Brandon Nelson of Dane County. The F-B-I said it did not uncover any evidence that Markofksi engaged in any violent or destructive behavior. He agreed to pay 500 dollars in restitution and could face up to six months in prison at sentencing.
Rebecca Kleefisch is taking the next step toward running for Wisconsin governor. The former lieutenant governor has filed the paperwork to officially run for governor next year. Kleefisch has not formally launched her campaign, but that could be coming soon. Bill McCoshen and Kevin Nicholson are said to be two other Republicans who might also step up to challenge Democratic incumbent Tony Evers in 2022.
Demand for the coronavirus vaccine in Wisconsin is ramping up. State health officials say 68-thousand doses were administered in Wisconsin last week. That’s about 12- thousand more than the week before; and breaks the average of just over 50-thousand doses-a-week in Wisconsin since July. The Department of Health Services says nearly 55- percent of eligible people in Wisconsin have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
U-S Senator Ron Johnson told a liberal activist who posed as a conservative that there was "nothing obviously skewed," about former President Donald Trump's election loss in Wisconsin The Wisconsin Republican is seen making the admission in a video released Tuesday. Johnson, at a weekend event in Wauwatosa, acknowledged that the only reason Trump lost the state to Joe Biden was because he underperformed compared with state Republicans on the ballot. Biden won Wisconsin by nearly 21,000 votes. In a statement to The Washington Post, Johnson denounced the undercover recording and said he has previously “acknowledged that . . . in Wisconsin, there is nothing obviously wrong with the statewide results.” He does support a review of the election which Republicans in the legislature approved funding for this week.
Labor Day is a big boating weekend, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wants you to wear a life jacket on the water. Nineteen people have died in boating accidents in Wisconsin in 2021. Another 22 died in 2020. Operator inexperience, inattention, recklessness, and speeding are the four leading causes of watercraft crashes, and the leading cause of death is drowning. The majority of people who drown in boating accidents know how to swim but become incapacitated in the water because they're injured or unconscious, exhausted, or weighed down by clothing.
State ag officials say a deer at Langlade County deer farm has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. State veterinarian Dr. Darlene Konkle says that the farm was already being tested for CWD after receiving deer from another farm that tested positive. Dr. Konkle says it's too early to say if the entire herd on the farm will need to be depopulated, but that DATCP and the DNR are working together on the next steps for the herd.
Authorities in southeast Minnesota are investigating an apparent drowning near Rochester. The Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office says deputies called a home in Marion Township Tuesday evening found a woman doing C-P-R on her husband. She said he was discovered on the bottom of their swimming pool after not responding to her calls. Officers and paramedics took over C-P-R but they could not revive the man. Investigators say it's unknown how long the man was underwater. The victim hasn't been identified.
Several animal rights groups say they have formed a coalition and are filing a lawsuit aimed at stopping this fall’s wolf hunt in Wisconsin. They’re taking that step in response to the Department of Natural Resource decision to set the quota for the hunt at 300. The state agency ignored input from several groups calling for the cancellation of the season. During the first wolf hunt in February, hunters killed 218 animals, even though the kill limit had been set at 119. Those groups say a quota of 300 is too high.
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is trying to put a stop to carjacking rumors that have gone viral online. The rumors have spread about crime in the community near Fort McCoy where two thousand Afghan refugees are being housed. White House officials say all Afghan refugees are thoroughly vetted before they arrive at the U-S. For now, they are being encouraged to stay on the base at Fort McCoy as they finish the necessary immigration processing steps. Sheriff Wes Revels says he wants to dispel the rumors. That’s why his office has posted information on its Facebook page.
A member of the Waukesha School Board is questioning what the Wisconsin Department of Justice is doing about the threats she has received. Kelly Piacsek says she has been doxed, threatened, and harassed over the board’s decision on accepting federal funding for a free school lunch program Piacsek says her children’s pictures were shared online with the clear intent to threaten her over her vote on the contentious issue. The attorney general’s office has been looking into the situation. Piacsek says it’s “not about food anymore.” She says if nothing is done school board members will have to consult with the Washington Post, Twitter and Facebook before making decisions. She says due to a story in the Post, she got many threats from outside Waukesha.
Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Paul Gazelka says he's stepping down. The Republican from the Brainerd lakes area said today (Wednesday) that he looks forward to letting someone else take over serving as a leader while he pursues the next chapter in his political life. That next chapter is a likely run for the G-O-P nomination for governor in 2022. Gazelka said "I intentionally did not put that in there, obviously, I've been contemplating running for governor I just want to get through the State Fair to decide if that's the next step, but that's what the conversation's been about." Gazelka says leading the caucus has been one of the most rewarding experiences of his life.
It's too soon to project whether gas prices will climb over the long Labor Day weekend. Meredith Mitts is with Triple-A Minnesota says we were actually seeing a bit of a decrease before Hurricane Ida hit and came through. She says the power has been out for about a million people in Louisiana and Mississippi and took roughly 13-percent of the US refining capacity offline. Mitts say it's uncertain what the full impact of the hurricane will be on gas prices in Minnesota for the last travel weekend of summer.
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