The Durand-Arkansaw School Board recently approved renewing the contract with Cluster A. According to Durand-Arkansaw School Superintendent Greg Doverspike, Cluster A is 8 school districts along and close to Hwy 10 that work together on different issues. Doverspike says one project the group is working on what services are the districts replicating that could be shared. Because of the increase in the use of zoom by some students, it may be possible for students in Durand to take a class offered by another district in Cluster A.
A Colfax man was arrested early Saturday morning on OWI Charges. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, troopers pulled over 45yr old John Zachman on Hwy 312 for a speeding violation. An investigation led to Zachman being arrested for OWI, drugged driving 6th offense, possession of marijuana, and drug paraphernalia. Zachman was taken to a hospital for an evidentiary blood test and then transported to the Eau Claire County Jail.
One person was injured in a single semi crash in Clifton Township on Thursday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 41yr old Feisal Axmed of Minneapolis was traveling southbound on Hwy F, lost control, crossed the centerline, and entered the east ditch striking a utility pole. Axmed was transported to Allina Hospital in Hudson. That accident remains under investigation.
The Wabasha County Board is meeting on Tuesday. Items on the agenda include approval of the purchase of a Generator using Covid Immunization Grant Funds, the selection of a Zoning Consultant, and the board will go into closed session to talk with attorneys on potential litigation. Tomorrow's meeting begins at 9am at the Wabasha County Board Room in Wabasha.
La Crosse police have identified the 27-year-old man whose dead body was found in the Black River Wednesday afternoon. The department reports Dayton K. Anderson-Teece was found in open water behind a business at about 3:45 p-m. W-K-B-T Television reports emergency responders were called after a witness saw a single set of footprints on the ice that walked to some open water but no footprints returning to the shore. Authorities initially thought the dead man could be a man reported missing earlier in the week – Hamud Faal. That proved not to be the case.
A Minnesota judge has been asked to throw out a confession made by a man after he was arrested in Tomah last year. K-A-R-E Television reports 40-year-old McKinley Phillips is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in June. The couple’s six children were upstairs watching television during the attack. Phillips was pulled off a Greyhound bus bound for Chicago at about 3:00 a-m. As he was being returned to Minnesota he allegedly told detectives he attacked his wife when he found a letter sent to her by a former boyfriend.
The Driver of a semi was not injured when he slid off of I-94 Friday. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, 29yr old Mahamed Farah Abdilahi of St. Cloud, MN was traveling westbound on I-97, when he slid into the pillar of the eastbound bridge over Hwy 37. The bridge sustained some minor damage but an inspection indicated it was not structurally damaged. That accident remains under investigation.
Students in the Flambeau School District have walked out of class to protest the removal of principal Craig Cahoon. W-E-A-U Television reports the school board voted not to renew Cahoon’s contract last week and he was told to leave school property the next day. Students claim Cahoon was pushed out in retaliation for cooperating with police during an investigation of District Administrator Erica Schley last year. Schley and school board President Julie Hauser were charged with felony misconduct over a grade-altering allegation.
A Rochester man entered a guilty plea to setting a trio of fires in St. Paul last year then escaping to Mexico. Court documents reveal Jose Angel Felan Junior set fires at two retail stores and at Gordon Parks High School. After the fires, he left the state and traveled to Mexico. An anonymous tip in February led to his arrest by Mexican police on immigration violations. He was returned to the United States where he entered the guilty plea in U-S District Court.
The state of Wisconsin is receiving 400-million dollars as its part of a settlement of a nationwide opioid case. The money will be used by state and local governments to deal with the impact of the opioid crisis. Wisconsin is one of 52 states and territories involved in the 26-billion-dollar agreement with three drug distributors. Federal officials say the settlement funds will start arriving in the spring.
Some residents in Columbia County aren’t happy about plans for the Langdon Miller Solar Energy Project. Backers say it means clean energy and economic development for the area around the Town of Courtland. They hope to have the site up and running by 2024. Dozens of people opposing the project met Wednesday. They are putting together a petition to fight it. Langdon Mills plans to host an open house about the project next Monday at the Cambria fire station.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports fewer than one-third of the state’s residents have had booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine. Statistics were released Thursday. D-H-S Secretary-designee Karen Timberlake says the data help her state agency decide where to focus its efforts. Timberlake says vaccines are crucial in the fight against the virus. W-M-T-V reports the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene says nearly every test sampled this month has been an Omicron variant.
Democrats who control the Minnesota House passed a bill Thursday night to use one billion dollars of the state’s budget surplus so 667 thousand essential workers could each get 15-hundred-dollar COVID bonuses. But Glencoe Republican Glenn Gruenhagen called it an exercise in futility since there’s no COVID bonus bill in the Senate. But New Hope Democrat Cedrick Frazier responded that it’s not futile to show Minnesota’s essential workers that someone cares about them. Senate Republicans are instead pushing for permanent tax cuts which they say will help “all” Minnesota workers, not just some.
U-S Customs and Border Protection agents say they found a slot jamming device kit inside a shipment from Hong Kong. T-M-J-4 reports the electromagnetic pulse slot machine jamming device kit was detected at the Port of Milwaukee earlier this month. It was seized because it is banned by federal law. Those devices can be used to disrupt the operation of gambling machines but they can also interfere with radio communications, cell phones, G-P-S devices, and other communications equipment. The shipment was headed to a resident in Mosinee. No arrests have been reported.
A local reporter’s investigation is raising questions about where all of the money donated for Waukesha Christmas Parade attack victims is going. Fox-Six News in Milwaukee reports some of the five-point-seven million-dollars raised for parade victims could go to local non-profits instead. Anita Busch with the group Victims First says people hurt in the attack should get 100-percent of the money. The local United Way, which is seeking some of the money, has a person on the board who will help decide where donations are sent. Busch says that’s a conflict of interest. The United for Waukesha Community Fund is accepting applications for the money until Monday. Then it will send checks in about two weeks.
A Motley mom went viral for a deal she made with her son to stay off social media until he turned 18. And last week, when Sivert Klefsaas celebrated his 18th birthday, his mom, Lorna, wrote him a check for 18-hundred dollars. Klefsaas said she got the idea after hearing on the radio about a 16-for-16 challenge, where a mom was going to pay her daughter 16-hundred dollars to do something when she was 16. She made the bet with her son when he was 12 years old, meaning he’s gone six years without social media. Lorna says he thought it was “an amazingly good deal” and took her up on it. Sivert is a senior at Staples-Motley High School and will play football this fall at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul.
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