The Dunn County Health Department (DCHD) and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) Monday confirmed the first case of orthopox virus presumed to be monkeypox in a Dunn County resident. The individual is doing well and isolating at home. The DCHD is working with the individual to identify people with whom they may have had direct, close contact while infectious. As of August 19, there were 53 confirmed cases of orthopox virus presumed to be monkeypox in Wisconsin.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a resolution to establish the 2022 goose hunting season inside city limits, a discussion of an ordinance to establish the confidentiality of information about income and expenses requested by the assessor in property assessments in the city and reports from the Mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Martin Center.
One person was injured in a one-vehicle accident in Naples Township on Saturday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, 17yr old Rebecca Cleasby of Eleva was traveling westbound on Hwy HH when she lost control of the vehicle, entered the South ditch, and rolled over. Cleasby was taken to Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire, while her passenger, 18yr old Richard Bailey of Eleva was not injured.
One person was injured in a single-vehicle accident in Glencoe Township on Saturday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, 20yr old Wilfrido Sandoval of Arcadia was traveling on Hwy 95 and failed to negotiate a turn, causing him to leave the highway and the vehicle rolled several times. His passenger, 19yr old Irving Ortiz was injured and taken to the hospital. Sandoval was arrested for driving under the influence after failing a field sobriety test.
A Spring Valley man was arrested on Sunday for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, troopers responded to a report of an individual driving through a road-closed barricade during the El Paso Parade. Troopers pulled over 83yr old Robert Broderson and as a result of a field sobriety test arrested Broderson for OWI first offense. He was taken to the Pierce County Jail.
The UW Board of Regents has approved a plan to renovate UW-Stout's, Heritage Hall. The $120 million project includes new classrooms and labs, windows for more natural lighting, a new sprinkler system, new roof and will have a new entrance on the north side of the building. The project is set to begin in 2025 and will be completed by 2027. Heritage Hall was built in 1975 and this will be the first renovation of the building.
Last Friday’s court-ordered deadline passed with no security changes mail at Milwaukee’s vacant Northridge Mall. W-D-J-T/T-V reports building inspectors, Milwaukee fire and police, and a representative of the owners met outside the old mall at 3:00 p-m Friday. A judge has ruled the owners would face a two-thousand-dollar daily fine if they fail to comply with a 2019 agreement that the property would be secured. There have been four suspected cases of arson at the mall in the last month. Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski says the conditions are unacceptably dangerous for his crews when they respond.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is sending out nearly 19 million dollars in drought relief checks this week to livestock farmers and specialty crop producers. More than 29 hundred of the three thousand received applications were approved for the 2021 program. M-D-A officials say because the legislation required that all qualifying applicants receive a payment, the checks will be pro-rated to 41-point-nine percent of the amount farmers were eligible to receive. The maximum payment will be three-thousand-143 dollars this year. State Ag Commissioner Thom Petersen says this amount “should help people pay a few bills and that’s important this time of year.”
A search led by the Central Wisconsin Drug Task Force has resulted in a Saratoga woman’s arrest. Wood County Sheriff’s deputies joined the task force in executing a search warrant last Thursday. Agents seized what are being called “large quantities” of suspected meth, marijuana, and prescription medication. W-E-A-U/T-V reports 32-year-old Casondra McCracken was taken into custody. She’s being held at the Wood County Jail. Drug and child neglect charges have been referred to the district attorney’s office.
A new report from the Wisconsin PFAS Action Council details the state’s efforts to address the problem. It lists eight areas where the state has taken action in response to contamination from so-called “forever chemicals.” The report cites a voluntary municipal drinking water system sampling program in which 125 systems have participated. The state has also collected and analyzed more than 100 wastewater samples – and is sampling 450 private wells to assess the presence of PFAS in Wisconsin’s groundwater.
Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent Carlton Jenkins tells C-N-N that his office has been getting creative to fill vacant teaching positions. The district is reportedly short about 135 teachers. Jenkins says Madison schools have reached out to teachers around the world. He says it has found educators from Mexico and Spain for its dual language immersion program positions. He says, right now, we have a national crisis caused by so many fewer teachers graduating from college. Today’s numbers are less than half of what they were in 1970.
After rising in recent weeks, there’s evidence that the coronavirus in Wisconsin is leveling off again. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says only 17 Wisconsin counties have high coronavirus activity. They’re in mostly more remote parts of northern and western Wisconsin. The majority of Wisconsin counties are experiencing low-to-medium levels. The Wisconsin Hospital Association says there are 461 people in the hospital with COVID-19, including 65 in intensive care units. Both numbers are lower than at the start of last week.
The 69th Princess Kay of the Milky Way coronation is set for Wednesday evening, the night before the opening of the Minnesota State Fair. The soon-departing Princess, Kay Anna Euerle (Early) of Litchfield, says she’s made a lot of memories in the last year -- visiting organic farms, farms with methane digesters, and farms that have their own creameries and make their own cheese. Wednesday’s pageant is set for Eight P-M at the Minnesota State Fair’s Leinie Lodge Stage.
A pair of Wisconsin boys have two of the best mullets in America. Eight-year-old Emmitt Bailey of Menomonie won the children’s division in the U-S Mullet Championships over the weekend. Bailey rocks a blonde haircut that’s business in the front, and party in the back. He beat out 24 other kids. Kayden Kershaw from Wausau, won the teen’s division. Each champ wins 25-hundred dollars.
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