The Durand-Arkansaw School Board has approved the renewal of an agreement with the Alma, Plum City, and Pepin School Districts to provide special education services. Durand-Arkansaw School Superintendent Greg Doverspike says by providing the services to the other districts saves Durand-Arkansaw some money. The agreement between the districts has been in place since the 1990s.
One person is dead after a one-vehicle accident in Oak Grove Township on Sunday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department 63yr old Rickard Perkins of Prescott was traveling northbound on Hwy 35, when he left the roadway, entered the east ditch, and struck several trees hidden from view. Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene by the Pierce County Medical Examiner's Office. That accident remains under investigation.
Two people were injured in a two-vehicle accident in Oak Grove Township on Friday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 21yr old Naomi Dolton of Racine, MN was turning northbound onto Hwy E from Hwy 10 when an eastbound vehicle driven by 29yr old James Bigott from Elmwood rear-ended the Dolton vehicle. Dolton had to be extricated from her vehicle and was taken to Region's Hospital with undetermined injuries, while Bigott was taken to Regina Hospital in Hastings.
The Pierce County Health Department is announcing the testing site at Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services will close after the January 6th testing date. The Wisconsin National Guard that runs the site is being re-deployed to help with staff shortages in hospital and long-term care facilities. The testing site will be open from 9-11am on December 27th, January 3rd, and January 6th. Test at the site continues to be drive up without appointments necessary.
Jerry Bauer, chairman of the Board of Security Financial Bank (SFB) and Security Financial Services Corporation (SFSC), the holding company that owns the Bank, announced the appointment of Mark C. Oldenberg to succeed Paul Rudersdorf as president of SFB effective January 10, 2022. Rudersdorf will continue to serve as CEO of SFB as well as CEO and president of SFSC until he retires at the end of 2022 at which time Oldenberg will assume those responsibilities.
A Thorp meatpacking business is suing USDA over a mask rule that requires employees and workers of meat processors to require their employees on contractors to wear masks if the plant is located in a county with substantial or high community transmission of Covid-19. Nolechek's Meats filed a lawsuit after the Food Safety and Inspection Service removed their USDA Mark of Inspection because the company was not requiring masks, which then impacted Nolechek's wholesale distribution. The Company is currently complying with the rule but told WAOW-TV they believe USDA has gone beyond what Congress has authorized.
Authorities in Chippewa County say the 24-year-old woman found dead in a farm field last year was pregnant when she died. The body of Rosaly Rodriguez was discovered in a suitcase in the Town of Wheaton just over three months after she was reported missing. Twenty-four-year-old Jose Dominguez-Garcia is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse, and intentional homicide of an unborn child.
Gov. Tony Evers and Chairman William Reynolds of the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin today signed a compact amendment allowing St. Croix operated casinos and affiliate locations in Wisconsin to offer event wagering on sports and non-sports events. The signed amendment was sent to the U.S. Department of Interior where it will undergo a 45-day review. That amendment is expected to be approved by the Department of Interior.
Students at Spooner Middle School are set to return to in-person learning Today as the Spooner Fire Department has deemed the building safe, after more than a month of being closed. The school was closed on November 10 after dozens of students and staff fell ill due to an epoxy-like odor in the building. According to the district, environmental testing of the school had been conducted by multiple organizations, and that reporting showed the symptoms students and staff were experiencing were side effects of styrene exposure.
The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission says an environmental review for the move of an oil and gas pipeline in Wisconsin is incomplete and flawed. Canada-based Enbridge Incorporated wants to move about 40 miles of its pipeline in Ashland and Iron counties. The company was sued by the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in 2019 demanding the pipeline be removed from that reservation. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released its draft environmental impact statement last week. Wisconsin Public Radio is reporting the intertribal agency told the D-N-R its review has significant gaps in the information provided.
National Weather Service survey teams have now confirmed nine tornadoes touched down in Minnesota during storms last week that moved across the southern half of the state. Two of the latest confirmed twisters were both rated E-F-1. The first was east of Plainview in Wabasha County and had max wind speeds of 93 miles per hour. The second was near Racine in Mower County and had a max wind speed of 110 miles per hour. E-F-0 tornadoes were also newly confirmed in Winona County and Fillmore County.
The Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly is telling the state’s hospitals they may have contributed to their own staffing shortages during the COVID-19 surge. Robin Vos says firing nurses who didn’t want to get the coronavirus vaccine didn’t help with the situation. Vos spoke on W-K-O-W Television’s Capital City Sunday program. The Wisconsin Hospital Association says hospitals fired less than two percent of their workers based on vaccine mandates. The Association maintains that state hospitals are becoming overwhelmed by the rapidly rising number of COVID-19 patients.
U-S Senator Ron Johnson is demanding answers about the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The Wisconsin Republican sent a letter to the Secretary of State’s Office and the head of the Department of Homeland Security last week. Johnson is asking for information about how many Americans are still in Afghanistan and how many Afghans are in the U-S. He says Americans deserve to know who came to this country when troops were pulled out – and who was left behind. He also wants to know how the Afghan refugees were vetted before they arrived here.
Drug companies are still fighting against Minnesota’s emergency insulin law. A federal court is being asked by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of American to overturn a ruling by a lower court that upheld the law known as the Alec Smith Insulin Affordability Act. Smith died four years ago while he was trying to ration his insulin. The law approved last year lets diabetics seek an emergency one-time 30-day supply of insulin from a pharmacy. The supplies are donated by three drug companies. Their lobbyists say that violates the U-S Constitution’s takings clause.
The effort to pass President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Plan has effectively ended. West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin voiced his final opposition to the plan during an interview on Fox News Sunday, effectively ending the trillion-dollar stimulus bill. Senator Tammy Baldwin has been working to build support for the plan, while Republican Ron Johnson has opposed it.
Results of a study show people aren’t moving to Wisconsin and that threatens the state’s future. The study by Wisconsin-based Forward Analytics focuses on the state’s three-point-six-percent population growth over the last 10 years. That makes the Badger State one of the slowest growing states in the U-S. It’s also the slowest 10-year growth rate ever for Wisconsin. A decline in birth rates and the under-18 population creates some long-term challenges. Fewer young people in Wisconsin will have a negative effect on future labor forces and the state’s economy.
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