Dollar General is proposing a new location in Durand. The store would be located on Hwy 85 in the old McMahon Motors Parking Lot. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the proposed building would need a zoning ordinance variance. If approved, it's not known when construction on the new store would begin.
Two people were injured in separate motorcycle accidents in Pierce County on Sunday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 53yr old Jeffrey Schmidt of Spring Valley was traveling on Hwy A near Maiden Rock when he lost control and entered the east ditch. Schmidt was transported to Mayo Hospital in Red Wing. While 63yr old Richard Esquivel of Eden Prairie, MN was traveling southbound on Hwy 35 in Diamond Bluff Township when a wild turkey entered the roadway and struck the motorcycle. Esquivel attempted to stop and lost control, crashing in the roadway. Esquivel was transported to Mayo Hospital in Red Wing.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Trenton Township on Saturday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 48yr old Tina Stubbs-Sow of Hudson was traveling southbound on Hwy 35 when she lost control, crossed the center line, and drove into the north ditch. Stubbs-Sow was transported to Mayo Hospital, Red Wing.
The family of the Neillsville man killed by police in 2019 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officers involved, the city of Augusta, and Eau Claire County. WQOW reports Tyler Meier was shot and killed by law enforcement in March of 2019 between Augusta and Fairchild. The family is seeking unspecified damages related to the loss of their dad, and say in court documents police deliberately provoked their dad into a physical confrontation.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Preston Township on Sunday. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriffs Department, the motorcycle driver lost control of the bike while traveling southbound on Schransberg Road, ran off the road, went into the southbound ditch, and hit an embankment, and was ejected from the bike. The driver was med-flighted to Gunderson Hospital in La Crosse with serious injuries.
Two Boy Scout troops from Appleton were riding on the Amtrak train that derailed in rural Missouri Monday. Three people were killed and at least 50 were injured when the train hit a dump truck at an uncontrolled railroad crossing. Boy Scouts of American spokesperson Scott Armstrong says 16 youths and eight adults from Wisconsin were returning home from a week-long backpacking trip at a wilderness camp in New Mexico. W-B-A-Y/T-V reports the scouts were able to help victims and provide aid to people who needed it. One Appleton scout reportedly provided comfort to the dump truck driver until the driver died.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is to rule Wednesday on a lawsuit that seeks to force Frederick Prehn off the Natural Resources Board. Former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker appointed Prehn to the seat on the board. His term ended in May 2021, but the Wausau dentist has refused to step aside. He points to a precedent that lets appointees continue serving until the state Senate confirms a successor. The Wisconsin Senate has never taken action on the person nominated to take Prehn’s place on the board that sets policy for the D-N-R.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the state appears to be leveling out. No death reports were received from local health departments last weekend. That hadn’t happened in four weeks. The D-H-S says Wisconsin is still averaging about three deaths per day. Last week’s total of 18 marks the first time in more than a month the state had fewer than 40 deaths in a seven-day period. As of Monday, the Wisconsin Hospital Association reports 386 people hospitalized for treatment for the virus – 52 in intensive care.
If you go swimming you might get sick. That’s the warning from the Waupaca Parks and Recreation Department. A posting on its Facebook page tells people they should swim at their own risk in Shadow Lake and South Park beach. The city says it has received several complaints of people reporting illness after swimming at South Park Beach. W-L-U-K/T-V reports several people replied to the post saying they or loved ones became sick after swimming there. They say they were vomiting, became dehydrated, or suffered headaches.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says he will grant clemency to any abortion providers who are convicted under the state’s 1849 ban on the procedure. Last week’s overturning of Roe-V-Wade made the law enforceable again. Evers says he expects it to be challenged in court at some point. He says he expects attorney general Josh Kaul to go to court to keep abortion legal in the state. Wisconsin is one of 22 states where the procedure to end a pregnancy is illegal – or at least more strictly limited.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison promises that no one coming to Minnesota for a legal abortion will be prosecuted -- nor will doctors coming here to perform one. He says he has “a duty and obligation to defend their right to travel to Minnesota.” But what if a prosecutor in one of Minnesota’s counties decides to pursue such a case? Ellison says the governor can intervene, and he adds that any county that tries to prosecute someone “wouldn’t have any legal basis or jurisdiction to do so.”
More than 700 flights within, into, or out of the United States had been canceled Monday, for various reasons. That comes after 868 flights were canceled nationwide on Sunday, according to the website Flight-Aware-dot-com. As of 10:30 A-M today, eight flights scheduled to depart Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport had been canceled, and 13 inbound flights to M-S-P had been canceled. On Sunday, Eleven arriving and 13 departing flights at M-S-P were canceled.
A nine-point-eight-million dollar state grant is aimed at relieving Wisconsin’s shortage of welders. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation gave the money to Northwood Technical College to be used for housing projects and training equipment. Northwood Technical President John Will says the application process was a competitive one. K-B-J-R/T-V reports the grant money will fund housing projects in Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, and Sawyer counties.
A symbolic victory for the front-runner in the Democratic primary for U-S Senate from Wisconsin. Mandela Barnes won the unscientific U-S Senate straw poll by just two votes at this weekend’s Wisconsin Democratic Party convention in La Crosse. Barnes got 121 votes among party activists, and Sara Godlewski got 119. That’s about 32 percent for each candidate. Alex Lasry came in third, with just 15 percent
A new national study from the University of Illinois shows that 51 percent of surveyed nurses considered leaving the profession within the next year. Mary Turner with the Minnesota Nurses Association (M-N-A) calls the results “extremely alarming.” She says short staffing and moral distress are among the top reasons given for nurses wanting to leave. The study of 22 hundred registered nurses working in hospitals, conducted last fall, found 95 percent had experienced moral distress -- largely due to the pandemic. Only 15 percent of nurses surveyed felt staffing levels in their workplace were safe.
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