The Durand-Arkansaw School District along with the City of Durand will install three safety crossing lights on Prospect Street. The lights will warn motorists of pedestrians crossing Prospect. The lights will be installed by the high school and by the Bauer Built Sports Complex. The cost of the lights is approximately $18000 and will be split between the district and the city. The lights are expected to be installed by the beginning of the new school year.
The Pepin County Administration Committee approved a 6-month lease for office space in the Government Center to Kwik Trip. If approved by Kwik Trip, the company will have a 300-square-foot office in the center from June 1st through the end of the year and will pay the county $500 a month. The office space will be used for hiring for the new Kwik Trip in Durand which is expected to open in December of this year.
The National Weather Service has put much of the WRDN Listening area under an enhanced risk of severe weather later this afternoon. The Weather Service says severe thunderstorms are expected to develop in Minnesota and move into Western Wisconsin with hail over 1 inch and the possibility of a tornado cannot be ruled out. After the storms move through cooler weather is expected for the weekend.
The Durand Police Department will be holding a bike rodeo for 2nd and 3rd-grade students Friday at Caddie Woodlawn elementary school. Students will learn how to ride their bikes safely on the roadways. Parents are asked to avoid dropping off or picking up their child's bikes during bus drop-off pick-up times to limit parking lot congestion.
A mistrial has been declared in an Eau Claire County child sexual assault case. WQOW-TV reports that after seven hours of deliberation Tuesday and Wednesday, the jury told the judge they had a difference of opinion and could not reach a verdict in the case of David Balistreri. He was charged in 2019 of sexually assaulting an 11 yr old girl as she slept. The judge declared a mistrial and a hearing is set for June 20th to determine what will happen next.
A Bangor man is dead after a farm accident. According to the La Crosse County Sheriff's Department, 74yr old Russel Johnson was driving a tractor pulling a fertilizer spreader across a hillside when the tractor and spreader tipped over, trapping Johnson. By the time first responders arrived, Johnson had died from his injuries.
Gasoline prices in Wisconsin have set yet another new record. Triple-A says the average price for a gallon of regular in the state hit four dollars and 31-cents Tuesday afternoon. That’s three cents higher than Monday and 12 cents higher than a week ago. All 50 states now have gas prices averaging over $4 a gallon.
A Minnesota pastor has been charged with the repeated sexual assault of a child as a persistent offender. W-M-T-V reports 61-year-old Jeffrey Anthony Charles was the pastor for the Neighbors to Nations church in Princeton, Minnesota at the time. Investigators say parishioners traveled to his cabin in the Town of Summit. Charles is accused of sexually assaulting the victim over a five-year period between 2005 and 2010. The victim was three years old when the assaults began. Charles was convicted of sexual abuse in Iowa 25 years ago in another case.
Family members of the late Minnesota First District Congressman Jim Hagedorn are suing his widow -- former state Republican Party chair Jennifer Carnahan -- trying to recover medical expenses for cancer treatments he received in Arizona before his death. The Star Tribune reports Hagedorn’s mother, stepfather, and sister allege they helped pay for the Arizona treatments after Hagedorn was told he had exhausted his options at Rochester’s Mayo Clinic. They claim that Carnahan made a “clear and definite promise” to use her inheritance to reimburse them. Carnahan says her late husband’s estate is required to go through probate and “there is nothing further we are allowed to do at this time.”
One of three ex-Minneapolis officers accused of aiding and abetting Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd is pleading guilty. Thomas Lane entered a guilty plea this morning (Wednesday) to a charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison issued a statement, saying, "his acknowledgment he did something wrong is an important step toward healing the wounds of the Floyd family, our community, and the nation." J. Alexander Kueng and Tou Thao are scheduled to stand trial on June 13th. All three were found guilty in a federal civil rights trial in February.
During a Tuesday hearing, a Dane County judge was skeptical of some of the arguments challenging the legality of private grants awarded to Madison to help run the 2020 presidential election. Similar lawsuits have been rejected in other courts. Circuit Judge Stephen Ehlke called some of Tuesday’s arguments “ridiculous,” a “stretch,” and “close to preposterous.” Nearly identical suits are pending in Green Bay, Kenosha, Milwaukee, and Racine. The challenge to the funding is based on a Waukesha County Court ruling last year. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is considering an appeal of the ruling. Judge Ehlke promised to make his ruling by the middle of next month.
The U-W System Board of Regents vice president and the new chancellor for the Madison campus want to meet with Assembly Speaker Robin Vos. The Republican speaker has called the unanimous appointment of Jennifer Mnookin a “blatantly partisan selection.” Board Vice President Karen Walsh suggested she and Mnookin should have lunch or coffee with Vos. Walsh says she doesn’t take remarks very seriously from people like Vos or state Senator Steve Nass – who criticized the selection and threatened the system’s state funding.
There was not one dissenting vote when the Minnesota Senate voted to keep the Capitol Area Security Advisory Committee in place for 14 more years. The upper chamber unanimously passed the measure Tuesday afternoon. The security advisory panel was in the spotlight during civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd. Minneapolis Democrat Scott Dibble says he thinks they’ve made “some fairly significant accomplishments in keeping the public and our staff and ourselves safe.”
A business professor at Madison Area Technical College says the biggest downside to the cryptocurrency market may not be its volatility. That market has lost nearly two trillion dollars in value since large investors started leaving. Professor Steve Noll says that’s a problem, but an even bigger issue may be the fact that crypto relies on blockchain technology – and that requires enormous amounts of energy to run computer servers. Its biggest downside might be that it is one of the most environmentally unfriendly currency ideas ever – at a time when the planet is in the middle of a climate crisis.
Drivers are being urged to watch out for large, slow-moving farm equipment this spring. M-N-DOT’s Scott Thompson says, “farm equipment is very large very heavy and when you contemplate what a crash might look like between a piece of farm equipment and a passenger vehicle -- more likely than not that piece of farm equipment is going to prevail.” Data shows there have been 374 crashes involving farm equipment in Minnesota since 2019, resulting in eight deaths and 133 injuries. Inattentive driving and speed were the biggest contributing factors in those crashes. Thompson is recommending motorists also watch for debris dropped by farm equipment and wait for a safe place to pass.
A Duluth resident from Ukraine is about to make her second trip home to provide whatever help she can as Russian forces continue their war. In April, Bogdana Krivogorsky traveled to both Ukraine and Poland to bring medical supplies and volunteer at a refugee center. Next week, she’s going back, but this time she’ll also have bullet-proof vests in addition to medical supplies. The vests were donated by the Superior, Wisconsin, police department. Chief Nick Alexander told W-D-I-O/T-V the vests would have likely “ended up in a landfill here” but “may save a life over there.”
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