The Pepin County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing person. Colleen M. Flynn was last seen June 10th around noon driving her white 2012 Nissan Juke, Wisconsin License Plate 930-KEP. Her direction of travel and clothing description is unknown. She is 5' 08" and 150 pounds. Outside of living in the Stockholm area, she also has ties to several areas of Minnesota. If anyone has any information related to her disappearance, please call the Pepin County Dispatch Center at 715-672-5944.
The 11yr old girl that was injured in an accident in Chippewa County on Friday has died. The Chippewa County Sheriff's Department confirmed that Tara LeMay the daughter of Sara LeMay died from her injuries on Monday. On Friday Sara LeMay was traveling on Hwy 64 west of Cornell when she lost control of the vehicle and it overturned and ended up in the water. Sara LeMay was also killed in that accident which remains under investigation.
One person was injured in a single-vehicle accident in Clifton Township Sunday. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 38yr old Amanda Hildebrandt of River Falls was traveling southbound on Hwy F when she lost control of the vehicle, entered the west ditch, went airborne,e and rolled over. Hildebrandt was taken to River Falls Area Hospital.
One person was injured when an ATV struck a parked car in Hager City on Friday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 30yr Mataya Kloos of Hagar City was traveling southbound on 825th Street when she struck a parked vehicle owned by 26yr old Kaitlin Draganowski of Almena. ATV Passenger 35yr old Christina Durnbach of Spring Valley was taken to Red Wing Hospital.
A Lake City man was arrested after a standoff on Saturday night. According to the Lake City Police Department, officers were called to the 1200 block of Peters Street on a report of a male acting erratic and out of control. Officers found a female that had been assaulted and that 25yr old Tyler Ruiz had retreated into a home. Ruiz had no weapons so officers cleared the scene after several attempts to get Ruiz to surrender. Later Ruiz was reported to be in the street shouting obscenities and threats and this time officers responded with a K-9 unit and Ruiz was taken into custody early Sunday morning. He is in the Wabasha County Jail on three counts of making terroristic threats, and one count of domestic assault.
The Wabasha County Board is meeting today. Items on the agenda include approval of the purchase of new work stations, setting the solar decommissioning rate, and discussion of highway costs. Today's meeting begins at 4pm at the Government Center in Wabasha.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) plans to treat 32 sites across 15 western Wisconsin counties, including Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, and Pepin Counties for the spongy moth, formerly known as gypsy moth, starting in late June. Residents can expect to see and hear loud, low-flying planes as early as sunrise. From late June to mid-July, planes will spray an organic, biodegradable mating disruptor containing spongy moth pheromone, which inhibits the adult male spongy moth's ability to locate females. This mating disruptor is not harmful to humans, animals, birds, or other insects. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there is no health risk to humans, and no adverse effects have been reported in the two decades that this pheromone has been used for spongy moth control.
A Clark County jury has found a 42-year-old Mosinee man guilty of killing a woman and hiding her body. W-S-A-W/T-V reports Jesus Contreras Perez was convicted Friday at the end of a five-day trial. No sentencing date has been set. Twenty-seven-year-old Cassandra Ayon was last seen on October 3rd, 2020. Authorities say her body and her vehicle have never been found and there has been no activity on her financial accounts. Investigators say Perez’s Google search history a search for “how to make a homemade silencer.”
The Wisconsin Department of Public Health says the state has had its first monkeypox exposure. A person who has the virus visited Oconto County last week. Public health managers say the exposure to the virus was “limited” and they are asking people not to panic. Monkeypox isn’t easily passed from person to person. The D-H-S says you have to have “close, sustained contact” with an infected person to get the virus.
Republicans who control the Wisconsin legislature will not object to new state standards for “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The standards were suggested by the Natural Resources Board earlier this year, and with no objections from Republicans, they'll be sent to the State Department of Natural Resources for implementation. These rules will set the DNR action standard for two of the most well-researched compounds in the PFAs family. The manmade chemicals are used in a variety of applications including firefighting foam nonstick cookware and packaging. The chemicals have been linked to a variety of cancers and enter the human body largely through drinking water. Though lawmakers are allowing the rules to move forward, they could still object to how the DNR handles their implementation of them.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has chosen Republican Don Millis to be its next chairman. Friday’s vote to confirm Millis was five-to-one over another Republican member who tied to cast an Electoral College vote for Donald Trump last year. Millis will replace Democrat Ann Jacobs as the group’s leader after winning the vote against Republican Bob Spindell. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos appointed Millis to the commission last Wednesday after the resignation of Dean Knudson in May.
Supply chain delays have settled down somewhat since the peak of the pandemic, but some of us are still noticing some in-demand items are still not finding their way to the shelves. Minnesota Grocers Association President Jamie Pfuhl says consumers “may not always find the brands or the sizes that they’re looking for,” and there may be some “package changes” and “different brands” of products than the ones customers are used to. Pfuhl says things are looking to improve as the supply chain is working its way back up to capacity. In the meantime, consumers may have to experiment with other brands until supply chain delays catch up to demand.
The U-S Senate is about to pass one of the biggest improvements to veterans’ health benefits. Minnesota Senator Tina Smith says the bill will ensure that “millions of veterans…exposed to toxic burn pits in the Middle East or Agent Orange or radiation will be able to get the health care that they have earned without going through a bunch of red tape.” The bill also extends health care benefits to service members exposed to toxic substances while serving in the Marshall Islands. Smith says many of those veterans later developed cancer after having to “clean up radiation” while wearing “shorts and rubber boots.”
For the first time, the president and vice president of the UW System Board of Regents are women. Karen Walsh was selected as Regents president, and Amy Bogenfeld Bogost as vice-president, at the Regents meeting in Milwaukee on Friday. Both were uncontested. Walsh is the third woman to lead the Board of Regents since the UW System was established in 1974. She and Bogost were both appointed Regents by Governor Tony Evers.
Even though the worst of the coronavirus pandemic seems to be behind us, an infectious disease expert from Wisconsin says older and at-risk people should consider wearing a mask in some situations. Doctor Jim Conway of U-W Health says higher-risk populations should be more cautious in circumstances like big sporting events held indoors, where people are yelling and screaming with their masks off. Conway says it’s different for a relatively healthy 67-year-old and a person of the same age who has blood pressure and cardiac issues, or diabetes, or other conditions.
It’s a bit more advanced than a scavenger hunt at your cabin. A group of Saint Cloud State University students, working in 10-centimeter layers, is excavating the remains of a cabin that would have stood just west of Royalton in the 1840’s. Archeology Professor Robb Mann says after three weeks’ work, they have enough evidence to feel comfortable they’ve found it. Any objects they find go to the Minnesota Historical Society with a significant exception -- they have an agreement with the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to replace anything that predates the arrival of Europeans.
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