One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in the Town of Dover on Monday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, 21yr old Bryan Rivera of Independence was traveling on Hwy 121 when he fail to negotiate a curve and left the roadway. Rivera was transported to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire.
Due to supply chain issues, the North Eau Claire Street project in Mondovi has been delayed until 2023. During last night's Mondovi City Council meeting, members approved a bid from A-1 Excavating for $3.6 million for the project, but the company would complete the project by October 2023. The city has until then to complete the project using CDBG funds and as part of the contract for the project, a liquidated damages clause will be included in case the project cannot be completed by October of 2023. That project was slated to begin this summer, but a lack of steel has caused the delay.
The Durand-Arkansaw School District and the city of Durand are teaming up to install three crosswalk warning lights on Prospect Street. Durand-Arkansaw School Superintendent Greg Doverspike says two of the lights will be by the high school and the third by the Bauer Built Sports Complex. It is hoped the lights will be installed this summer.
The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on a final design for the Tarrant Park Pool along with reports from the mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall and will be live-streamed on the WRDN YouTube Channel at Durand Broadcasting WRDN.
Seventy-five members of the 934th Airlift Wing are back in Minnesota following a three-month deployment to the Europe Command Area. The airmen deployed to Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany in late February to support tactical airlift missions, including aeromedical evacuations with C-130 Hercules airplanes. The 934th Airlift Wing, also known as the “Global Vikings,” is Minnesota’s only Air Force Reserve unit.
Former Hormel Foods executive Jeff Ettinger cruised to victory in a Democratic primary to finish the term of the late U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn for the first congressional district in Minnesota. On the Republican side, unofficial returns have Brad Finstad leading Jeremy Munson by 389 votes. The winners will meet in August to determine who will finish the last few months of Hagedorn’s term.
Road construction across Wisconsin will be halted during Memorial Day weekend. While crews will be off the roads for the weekend, lanes will still be closed in places where construction is paused. Major construction that’s on hold includes parts of Highway 29, the Beltline in Madison, I-39/Highway 51 in Central Wisconsin, and I-43 in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties. Check 5-1-1-W-I-dot-Gov for complete info.
Doctors at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee say they’re seeing more children with nutritional problems or other needs in the wake of the national baby formula shortage. Doctors say some parents are trying to make their own baby formula. But the medical experts say homemade baby formula doesn’t have the nutrition babies need, and they’re warning parents not to use recipes off the Internet.
A $19.2 million multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company was announced Tuesday, claiming that the company falsely advertised the features of two of its vehicles. According to Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, Wisconsin will receive $325,247 for the settlement. It claims Ford falsely advertised the real-world fuel economy of its 2013-2014 models of C-Max hybrids and the payload capacity of 2011-2014 models of Super Duty pickup trucks. Attorneys general of 35 states and jurisdictions joined the settlement, which was led by states that include Illinois, Texas, and Arizona.
A coalition of community and labor groups is calling on Wisconsinites to oppose Milwaukee hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention. Democratic Mayor Cavalier Johnson calls it a business decision. He says “it’ll put Milwaukee in a position where more large-scale events will then come back to Milwaukee.” An open letter from Voces de la Frontera Action, S-E-I-U of Wisconsin, and other organizations state that the Republican Party “supports White Supremacists, the violent attempted coup at the U-S Capitol…and continues to engineer new ways to undermine fair and democratic elections.” A Milwaukee Common Council Committee is scheduled to vote today (Wednesday) on the R-N-C’s contract.
Wausau police are still searching for the man who robbed a bank on Friday, although that man may have already been in custody. Sixty-two-year-old Johnson Carter turned himself in Friday afternoon on unrelated charges and was later released. He’s been named as a person of interest in the Friday robbery of WoodTrust Bank in Wausau. The robber got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, and although he implied he had a gun he didn’t show one. He was wearing a Green Bay Packers hooded sweatshirt and a Pittsburgh Steelers facemask.
A man charged with killing a University of Wisconsin medical professor and her husband has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Khari Sandford was convicted of fatally shooting Doctor Beth Potter and Robert Carre at the U-W Arboretum more than two years ago -- they were the parents of Sandford’s then-girlfriend Meriam Carre. Her parents and Sandford had a history of not getting along, and they forced him and their daughter to leave their home and move into an Air-B-N-B for not social distancing. They were killed one day later. Sanford is facing life in prison.
A statue depicting the Galloping Ghost mascot of Kaukauna High School will remain on campus, despite some criticism that it looks too much like Ku Klux Klan imagery. W-F-R-V/T-V reports the school district now plans to add signage to explain the significance of the statue. The school board recently voted to spend 25-thousand dollars on a sign reading, “Home of the Galloping Ghosts,” but doesn’t include additional space or signage explaining the statue. The local community is reportedly split between wanting a sign, not wanting one, and removing the statue altogether.
Minnesota’s Congressional delegation is calling on the U-S Department of Agriculture (U-S-D-A) to provide federal assistance for Minnesota farmers and communities impacted by storms and natural disasters this spring harvest. U-S Senator Amy Klobuchar and her Congressional colleagues, in a letter to U-S-D-A Secretary Tom Vilsack, indicate support for the state’s request for a Farm Service Agency (F-S-A) Administrator’s Physical Loss Notice (A-P-L-N). They’re urging Vilsack to grant the request in order to provide vital support to farmers and communities throughout the state.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says he won’t call lawmakers back to the State Capitol for a special session until lawmakers are committed to getting things done. Walz is referring to spending for health and human services, education, and public safety. Carleton College Political Science professor Steven Schier says, “Republicans are a little less excited about getting all this done right now before the election,” while “Democrats want to get everything done so they can claim to have accomplished a lot before the November election.” Walz calls it “baffling” that people would not want a special session to finish tax cuts and spending bills. There’s no timeline yet for a special session, but Walz says he’d like to do it sooner rather than later.
A popular off-campus residential area for Marquette University students is once again piling up with trash as they leave school for the summer or graduate. Dumpsters along West Clybourn Street near South 20th are overflowing with food trash and strewn along nearby is an assortment of empty boxes, mattresses, and couches. W-I-S-N/T-V reports it’s an ongoing problem every year at the end of the spring semester at Marquette. City officials say it’s the responsibility of the apartment owners to clean up the trash, but it’s unclear if they’re responsible for any trash that spills over onto city-owned sidewalks or other rights-of-way.
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