The Plum City School District is looking for district residents interested in participating in a strategic planning committee for the district. The committee will work on developing a strategic plan for the district. Those interested in volunteering should contact Brian Nadeau at 715-317-7002.
Two Pepin County Organizations have received grants from the state's tourism grant program. Pepin County Economic Development received a grant of $7785, while the Stockholm Area Merchants Association received a $5552 grant from the DMO program recently announced by the state. The grants will be used to advertise to surrounding communities not only to visit but also to find employment in Pepin County. An employment page will be added to the Pepin County Website where job listings in the county can be posted.
Residents receiving a text message about limited t-shirts for sale representing the Eau Claire Fire Department is a scam. Eau Claire Deputy Fire Chief says the department has nothing to do with the messages and you should not click the link included in the message. Other departments in Western Wisconsin have also been included in the spam messages.
A La Crosse County jury has found a 29-year-old man guilty of first-degree intentional homicide. The jury issued its verdict Wednesday in the 2019 killing of 18-year-old Javier Hall. Shavonte Thompson was arrested in Peoria, Illinois last year. A pre-sentencing investigation will be completed before Thompson is sentenced in La Crosse County Circuit Court in early January. He is being held on a one-million-dollar cash bond.
The State Capitol Holiday/Christmas tree is set to return to the rotunda this year. Governor Evers’ office says the tree will return, and the theme will be “Hometown for the Holidays.” There was no tree in the rotunda last year because the capitol building was closed to the public at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. A pair of state lawmakers tried putting up their own trees, which led to a bit of a controversy. While the governor calls the evergreen a “holiday tree,” Republican lawmakers passed a resolution in 2019 officially declaring it a “Christmas tree.”
The Wisconsin Legislature has given its final approval to Republican redistricting maps. The Assembly voted 60-to-38 along party lines Thursday. Democratic Governor Tony Evers has promised to veto the maps that were approved this week. That means the issue of political district boundaries will be sent to the courts. Democrats and other groups opposed to the Republican-drawn maps want lawmakers to consider the ones from the People’s Maps Commission, but 17 of the 38 Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly say they don’t like those maps either.
Officials with the Spooner School District confirm that 44 people received medical treatment after a chemical odor forced the evacuation of the middle school Wednesday. Witnesses say it smelled like epoxy. Students and teachers reported they started feeling sick that morning. Twenty-four students and 20 staff members were transported to hospitals for help. Classes were canceled while the source of the odor is sought. District officials say the middle school will be reopened when it is safe to do that.
A bill authorizing millions of dollars in state loans to keep a pair of closed paper mills viable has passed the Wisconsin Assembly. The bill would provide a one million dollar grant to the Verso mill in Wisconsin Rapids, and a 15 million dollar loan guarantee for the Park Falls Pulp and Papermill. The bill will still have to pass the state Senate and get signed by Governor Tony Evers.
A Lake Mills police dog has led searchers to two missing children. They were reported missing at about 3:00 p-m Wednesday when temperatures were in the low 50s. Authorities were told the children, ages four and seven weren’t wearing clothes the last time they were seen. The police dog named Truman and his handler found them near an empty trailer after tracking them through backyards, over the Glacier Drumlin Trail, and into the trailer park. The kids were said to be “very cold,” but safe, and they were reunited with their family.
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Authorities in eastern Minnesota are searching for a missing Wisconsin mother of four children. Thirty-three-year-old Ashley Miller of Grantsburg was last seen with her boyfriend on tribal land in Pine County almost two months ago. Her car was found near Hinckley, Minnesota. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has joined the search. A 20-thousand-dollar reward is being offered for information on where she might be. The boyfriend is being held in jail in Burnett County on an unrelated probation violation charge.
An Amtrak train slammed into an Amazon delivery truck at a crossing in Ixonia Tuesday afternoon. No injuries were reported. The Empire Building train was en route from Seattle and Portland to Milwaukee and Chicago. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office reports the delivery truck was hit while it tried to cross the tracks on River Valley Road at about 1:30 p-m. The truck driver was taken to a nearby hospital as a precaution. The 129 train passengers and 12 crew members reported feeling a “jolt,” but say they “didn’t think much of it.” One passenger told W-I-S-N Television the train “kind of rolled to a stop.” After the train and track were inspected, it continued its route to Chicago.
A prisoner managed to get away from a private contractor at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport on Tuesday Robert Johnson Junior was being transported from Laredo, Texas to Rock County. Johnson has an extensive criminal record and is currently facing charges of aggravated assault and burglary. Anyone who sees the fugitive is urged to call 9-1-1 immediately. The Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office hasn’t said how Johnson managed to get free during the transport.
A continuing spike in cases of COVID-19 could have an impact on how we spend the upcoming holiday season. The state Health Department's Kris Ehresmann says we are encouraging all Minnesotans to think carefully about their holiday plans, C-D-C recently updated their holiday guidance to reflect the changing landscape that we find ourselves in. Ehresmann says the delta variant is driving Minnesota's COVID case numbers to an "alarmingly high level." And she says hospitals remain crowded and there are still many Minnesotans who do not have vaccine protection. More than 51-hundred new COVID cases were reported today (Thursday) in Minnesota.
A former Waukesha County Board member is charged with a felony. An investigation finds former Waukesha County supervisor Kathleen Cummings didn’t live in the district she represented for nearly a decade. Investigators say while she owned a home in her district, she didn’t live there. Prosecutors Wednesday filed five charges of what’s called “false swearing” against Cummings. She resigned from her seats on the Waukesha County Board and the Waukesha City Council earlier this week.
Harvest numbers are down in Minnesota heading into the second full weekend of the firearms deer season. The D-N-R's Todd Froberg says it's somewhat surprising because license sales were only down one percent ... pretty consistent with last year for license sales, but the harvest was a little bit disappointing. Froberg says perhaps more people were able to hunt last year due to the COVID pandemic. He remains optimistic that those harvest numbers will rebound this weekend
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