The Pepin County Board has approved a resolution supporting the creation of the Northern Grain Belt Port Statistical Area. Bob Gollinick with the Mississippi River Regional Planning Commission says the area covers 150 miles of the Mississippi River and includes 11 counties on both sides of the river from Prarie Du Chien to Red Wing. With 30 different river terminals, Gollnick says combining all of their imports and exports would make are region a top 50 port. The creation of the statistical area will not cost Pepin County any money or time.
Durand Middle-High School Principal Nic Gillis is retiring. During last night's school board meeting, members approved the retirement. Gillis, who has been with the district for only a year was a former administrator in Plum City and had replaced longtime principal Bill Clouse. The District will now begin a search for a new principal.
An area hunter safety program has been recognized by the Wisconsin DNR. Last night the DNR presented the Durand Hunter Safety program as the Hunter Safety Program of the Year for the state of Wisconsin. The program teaches gun safety to area youth for safe and successful hunting.
The Nelson Handy Mart was robbed yesterday. In a social media post, the store posted pictures of the man who robbed the store. The man had a beard and mustache and was wearing a black baseball cap and a grey hoodie-type sweatshirt. He was driving a blue SUV. If anyone has any information on the identity of the man, they are to contact the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department.
Dunn County Motorists are reminded to watch and follow the posted speed limits. The Dunn County Sheriff's Department along with Boyceville, Colfax, and Elk Mound Police are having extra patrols to work weekly speed enforcement details. The extra enforcement will run through the rest of the summer.
A California company has withdrawn its proposal for a water bottling facility in Eau Claire. The decision from Niagara Bottling came just prior to Tuesday night's City Council meeting, where council members voted 11-0 to postpone the proposal indefinitely. While some were excited at the prospect of jobs and tax revenues, opponents raised concerns about water quality, climate change, and plastic waste. Opponents rallied outside city hall on Monday ahead of a public hearing. Niagara had projected employing 58 people at the facility, which would have used about nine percent of the city’s water plant output. According to Eau Claire City Officials, the company plans to resubmit a plan within the next year.
The National Weather Service has confirmed tornado touchdowns near Tomah and Mauston, with power, knocked out to more than 70 thousand customers Wednesday evening. W-I-S-C/T-V reports damage was done to the Mile Bluff Medical Center in Mauston with trees and powerlines known down near the hospital. In the middle of the severe storm, a crash on Interstate 90-94 closed eastbound traffic at about 4:30 p-m. State Highway 21 was also closed to traffic in both directions by a crash. City officials in Green Bay were asking people to stay away due to extensive damage from storms. Authorities have provided no injury reports yet.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is investigating a fatal jet ski accident on the Mississippi River. W-K-B-T/T-V reports rescue crews were called to the river Tuesday at about 1:30 p-m. Investigators say a freshman at West Salem High School was killed in an accident involving two personal watercraft and the four people who were riding. No information was provided about the medical conditions of the three people who survived. The West Salem School District says the victim was a member of the cross-country and soccer teams at the high school.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled you can be charged with operating while intoxicated while you are in your own driveway. The court decided a judge didn’t make a mistake when issuing a warrant for a blood draw for Valiant Green after he was arrested in 2019. The request for a warrant was a preprinted form and Green’s attorney had argued police had no cause to search him because they couldn’t assume Green had driven on a public road. The Supreme Court justices disagreed with a six-to-one vote. Green was charged with O-W-I-fourth offense and resisting arrest.
A Dane County judge has fined special counsel Michael Gableman two thousand dollars a day for ignoring open records requests from a liberal watchdog group. Judge Frank Remington found Gableman in contempt last week after the former state Supreme Court justice refused to answer questions. Gableman was heard making sarcastic comments about the judge and inappropriate comments about an attorney for American Oversight, the group seeking the records. Judge Remington ordered a transcript for the hearing to be forwarded to the Office of Lawyer Regulation for what he called “appropriate disciplinary action.” Gableman could face discipline for his comments. He has been overseeing the review of Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election.
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The U-S Army Corps of Engineers has released a draft of where it plans to deposit sand dredged from the Mississippi River near Winona -- and they’re now asking for public comment. The Corps' dredged material manager Paul Machajewski says, “next summer we’d be living under the draft plan as proposed unless there are some significant modifications that are needed.” The draft plan no longer uses the large Winona Harbor expansion site due to input received in 2020. It adds two possible opportunities for dredged-sand placement, plus a transfer site next to the Minnesota Maritime Art Museum. An informational meeting is scheduled for June 22nd at the Winona Historical Society.
The Wisconsin Republican Party has launched what it calls its “election integrity” tour just before the August primary. The events kicked off Wednesday in La Crosse and Madison. The tour will focus on Wisconsin’s most liberal cities. Republican organizers say they are working in battleground states like Wisconsin to connect staff and volunteers, to recruit poll workers, observers, and voting deputies. Similar tours are scheduled in 16 states. Democrats say the events are intended to spread lies about the 2020 presidential election that was won by President Joe Biden. They plan to protest. The tour stops will include Wausau, Green Bay, Appleton, Eau Claire, Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha.
The Brown County Sheriff’s Office reports a nine-year-old girl died in Suamico Tuesday when she was hit by an S-U-V driven by her mother. No names have been released. Investigators say the mother is cooperating with them. W-B-A-Y/T-V reports deputies responded to the emergency call just before 7:40 a-m. They say the vehicle was driving south on a road with the child running alongside. When she fell, she was hit and severely injured. Authorities say they don’t believe alcohol or drugs were a factor.
Fisheries teams in northern Wisconsin are working to reduce the population of bullhead fish. That's because the bottom-dwelling fish crowd out and outgrow more popular fish like walleyes and perch. Mole Lake Fisheries technician Clint Soulier tells W J F W that they're using shock nets to stun and remove the fish. The fisheries team has pulled out over 15 thousand bullheads in the past year. Local groups sponsor contests to scoop up bullhead minnows by the buckets full to keep the fish from coming back.
A cruise ship is set to make history in Green Bay today. The Ocean Navigator would be the first Great Lakes cruise ship ever to drop anchor in Green Bay. The ship will dock at Leicht Park and passengers can tour the Neville Museum, Lambeau Field, and other local attractions like the National Railroad Museum and the Automobile Gallery. The Ocean Navigator is on a ten-day tour. Another cruise ship is scheduled to dock in Green Bay at the end of the month.
A Minneapolis restaurant that opened last July has been named the best new restaurant in the United States. Owamni snagged the James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant during a Monday night ceremony in Chicago. Its full name, Owamni by the Sioux Chef, specialized in Native American cuisine and buys ingredients from indigenous producers. The restaurant advertises that it does NOT use “colonial ingredients” in its dishes, meaning no “wheat, dairy, cane sugar, pork, or chicken.”
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