The Durand-Arkansaw School Board has approved an offer to sell the land by Kirk road the district purchased a few years ago. According to District Superintendent Greg Doverspike, the district will make a profit on the sale. Doverspike says that money will be put into an account for future capital projects. That sale is expected to close in November.
The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office has released the name of the man who drowned near the entrance to Big Falls County Park last week. Thirty-seven-year-old Michael E. Lisowski of Eau Claire was swimming in the river when a sandbar gave way and he went under. Investigators were told the victim wasn’t a strong swimmer and his death has been ruled an accident. His friends were able to pull him from the Eau Claire River and begin administering life-saving measures until emergency responders arrived, but Lisowski died before he could be taken to a hospital.
The man that led police on a high-speed chase that ended in a standoff on I-94 in Dunn County has pleaded guilty in St. Croix County Court. Raymond Martin plead guilty to attempting to flee an officer and driving under the influence yesterday. On September 26th Marten led officers on the high-speed chase through St. Croix and Dunn Counties, reaching speeds up to 100mph. Hi car was disabled in Dunn County and a standoff ensued for several hours before he was arrested. He was sentenced to one year in jail to run concurrently with a jail sentence he is serving in Minnesota.
The City of Mondovi has announced the date of the fall clean-up. The Clean up will be October 15th and Durand Sanitation will conduct Curbside pick up of furniture only. Each resident is allowed two items and they must be less than 75lbs and be placed curbside by 6am on October 15th. Non-acceptable items include mattresses and box springs, computers, appliances, hide-a-bed or sofa recliners. Residents are encouraged to contact Mondovi City Hall with any questions.
The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice reviewing the 2020 presidential election made a surprising move Thursday, canceling interviews with mayors and city clerks and backing off on the subpoenas he had issued. Michael Gableman had demanded those officials turn over every election record they had and meet him for extended interviews. That request would have involved hundreds of thousands – maybe millions of pages of election records. A spokesperson says he may ask for more records later. W-L-U-K Television is reporting Gableman told it he had reached agreements with officials in Madison, Racine and Kenosha. He was still working on similar agreements with Milwaukee and Green Bay.
An effort to force all schools in Wisconsin to order teachers and students to wear face masks is focusing on Waukesha first. A group of parents filed the suit Wednesday, but the effort is being funded by progressive politician and Minocqua Brewing Company owner Kirk Bangstad. Waukesha schools allow students to choose whether to wear masks. Bangstad calls kids “basically vectors for COVID bombs.” His political action committee is paying for the push for masks in schools statewide. Meanwhile, a family in the Menomonie School District recently filed for a formal hearing over that district's covid-19 protocols.
The out-of-state hunting group aiming to expand the wolf hunt in Wisconsin now wants to make it legal to hunt sandhill cranes. The package of bills, sponsored by New Richmond Republican Senator Rob Stafsholt and Kansas based Hunter Nation group, would among other topics make it legal to hunt sandhill cranes, eliminate concealed carry permits in favor of so-called constitutional carry, and would require the DNR to remove three rules from their guideline for every rule they introduce. Senator Stafsholt was not available for comment on Thursday.
It’s time to choose the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” this year. The four finalists are Kwik Trip Glazers donuts, Caterpillar's Cat Electric Rope Shovel, Mercury Marine's V-12 600 horsepower Verado Outboard Engine, and Broadwind Heavy Fabrications 140-ton Navy Crane. Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce holds the competition every year. People can vote at the “Made in Wisconsin” website. More than 135-thousand votes have been cast so far. Voting runs through next Thursday. The winner will be announced on October 14th during Business Day in Pewaukee.
The conservative legal group Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has threatened to sue the University of Wisconsin. The suit would be based on an announcement that the university has hired three mental health providers who would work only with students of color. The Institute says that would violate state and federal laws on discrimination. A spokesperson for the university says the original announcement that was cited in the legal complaint was inaccurate and has been corrected. The spokesperson says University Health Services doesn’t assign mental health providers based on a student's race and they are not limited to serving certain students based on race.
Almost 400 Afghan refugees are expected to settle in a half-dozen Wisconsin cities. The refugee coordinator at Wisconsin’s Department of Children and Families says refugees will end up in Appleton, Green Bay, Madison, Milwaukee, Oshkosh or Wausau. That’s because those cities are already home to refugee resettlement agencies and they have the resources needed to help the people coming to this country. Not all of the refugees settling in Wisconsin will come from Fort McCoy.
Hackers have released a massive package of passwords and source codes from Amazon's streaming website Twitch. Madison College information security professor Mike Masino says the hackers managed to heist a surprising amount of back-end data from Amazon, and released it all on the internet. Masino says most of the information was aimed at damaging the company, rather than exposing the users. He says it's still a good idea to update your passwords for both Amazon and Twitch, just in case.
Wisconsin’s attorney general wants Congress to open hearings into social media and kids. Attorneys General from all 50 states want congressional hearings into protecting the safety of kids using social media. The call comes after studies that show Facebook and Instagram are harmful to kids’ mental health, especially teenage girls. Wisconsin’s Josh Kaul says it’s unacceptable for social media companies to profit by getting kids hooked on their apps.
Wisconsin lawmakers want to ensure a backlog of untested sexual assault kits never happens again. A committee of the Wisconsin Assembly heard from lawmakers and advocates Tuesday. They want a new law that sets timelines for how the kits are handled and processed. A bill would require hospitals to notify police within 24 hours of collecting D-N-A, and would require police to send that kit to the state crime lab within 14 days. Wisconsin had a backlog of six thousand untested kits in 2014. The bill has already passed the state Senate.
The number of people in the hospital in Wisconsin with the coronavirus is holding steady. The Wisconsin Hospital Association says about 11-hundred people were hospitalized with the virus as of Wednesday. Of them, about 300 are in the Intensive Care Unit. About a thousand people in Wisconsin have been in the hospital with the virus at any given time for the past month or so.
The theme of this year's Fire Prevention Week is "learn the sounds of fire safety." Minnesota State Fire Marshal Jim Smith says the slogan is geared toward educating the public on the sounds that your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors will make. Smith says three loud continuous beeps mean you have smoke or fire in the home. That's when you get out of the home and call 9-1-1. Chirping every 30 to 60 seconds indicates the battery on that alarm needs to be changed. Cooking is still the leading cause of house fires in Minnesota.
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