The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda included discussion and possible action on the proposed dog park at the OC Hanson park, bids on the Tarrant Park Pool Project, and reports from the Mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting will be at 6:30 at Durand City Hall and will be live-streamed on our YouTube Channel at Durand Broadcasting WRDN.
The first goose hunt in the city of Mondovi will wrap up Tomorrow. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss says the number of geese in the city had become too large that the hunt was needed. Over a dozen geese have been harvested so far and 11 hunters participated in the early season. Another season will be coming up later this fall.
The Village of Pepin and Lake Pepin will be featured on an episode of the Outdoor Channel program Fishing University with Charlie Ingram. The crew is in Pepin until Thursday highlighting the fishing on Lake Pepin. On Thursday, they will be doing a school presentation at Pepin Area Schools along with DNR personnel to encourage kids to consider a career in the outdoors. The film crew will also spend time filming the tourist highlights of the area, such as the Great River Road and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum & Wayside Cabin. This episode will air eight times on the Outdoor Channel and ten times on the World Fishing Network starting in January 2023 and is expected to reach up to 30 million households.
The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed the death of Sheriff Ron Cramer. He was 67 years old. A cause of death hasn’t been reported. W-E-A-U/T-V reports that Cramer had announced in February he would not seek another term in the office he had held since 1996. He had been with the department for 47 years. Local officials expressed shock at the unexpected death saying Crame was “a pillar of the community” and was “going to be missed.”
UW-Eau Claire says its Narcan boxes are ready for use. The university yesterday said 19 boxes have been installed across campus and are stocked. Narcan is used to bring people back from an opioid overdose. The university's Christy Prust says all UW campuses are installing Narcan boxes after two students at UW-Milwaukee died from an opioid overdose last year. UW-Eau Claire's boxes are in dorms and other high-traffic areas on campus.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has rescinded its guidance allowing clerks to fix problems on absentee ballot envelopes. Tuesday’s four-to-one vote follows an order from Waukesha County Judge Michael Aprahamian. Voting rights groups and the Waukesha County Democratic Party had asked that the order be withdrawn. They pointed out that Republicans had no issues with the guidance until former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
U-S Senator Tammy Baldwin tweeted Tuesday that no one wants South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham making health care decisions for women. Graham is proposing a nationwide ban on abortions after 15 weeks. Both U-S Senators from Wisconsin – the Democrat Baldwin and Republican Senator Ron Johnson – appear to be opposed to the ban. Johnson says the issue should be decided at the state level. A spokesperson for Johnson didn’t say whether he definitely opposes Graham’s bill. It seems to have little chance for passage unless Republicans take control of Congress.
Minnesota public safety officials are reporting a ten-percent increase in drunken driving arrests during the Labor Day holiday period. Mike Hanson with the Minnesota Office of Traffic Safety says 292 law enforcement agencies made one-thousand-265 arrests for impaired driving. That’s 100 more than Labor Day weekend 2021. Hanson says those arrests potentially prevented 12-hundred-plus fatal crashes across Minnesota. More than 18 thousand drivers have been arrested for D-W-I this year.
If the license plate on your vehicle is more than 10 years old you need to get a replacement. The Wisconsin Department of Motor Vehicle is replacing more than three million faded license plates. D-M-V spokesperson Kristina Boardman tells W-S-A-W/T-V that being able to identify a vehicle is serious. Other states have done this but Wisconsin hasn’t had a mandatory replacement cycle for license plates.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation reports the state is on pace to set a new record for highway fatalities for the fourth year in a row. Four hundred people have died in traffic crashes this year. At the same time last year, the number was 389. Experts blame speeding, distracted driving, and a failure to wear seat belts for the rising numbers. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Transportation Safety says a culture change is needed to turn the tide.
A would-be good Samaritan in Madison was hit and almost run down for her efforts to help another woman just after midnight Saturday. The victim says she noticed the 31-year-old woman repeatedly honking her horn in a parking lot. W-K-O-W-/T-V reports that when the 52-year-old walked over to offer some help, the younger woman responded by punching her. Then, the victim says the attacker tried to run her down. No names have been released. The suspect was taken into custody on charges of disorderly conduct while armed, battery, and second-degree recklessly endangering safety. She’s being held in the Dane County Jail.
Could government step in, if hospitals’ contingency plans fall short during the nurses’ strike? Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says it’s premature for him to comment on the possibility of the governor declaring a peacetime state of emergency. He says, though, they’re in touch with “all the relevant players, and are advising all to come to a resolution.” The Twin Cities Hospitals Group says, as is standard during any labor disruption, the state Health Department will be monitoring hospitals and providing guidance as necessary to ensure continuity of care.
The Milwaukee police union may sue to get officers better, more reliable weapons. The Milwaukee Police Association is reportedly considering a lawsuit to replace their Sig Sauer service weapons. That’s after one officer accidentally wounded another officer when his weapon went off last weekend. The union says there’ve been other accidental discharges since Milwaukee’s police force switched to Sig pistols in 2019.
Voters will get to see Governor Tony Evers and Republican Tim Michels answer questions just one time this campaign season. The two candidates yesterday agreed to just one debate. It will be in mid-October and will be hosted by the Wisconsin Broadcaster Association. Reporters from across the state will ask the questions during the hour-long debate. The debate comes a little less than a month before voters head to the polls in November.
A 27-year-old driver has been arrested in Fond du Lac for operating while intoxicated and hitting a police squad car. The man’s name hasn’t been released. Police say the incident happened early Sunday. W-G-B-A/T-V reports the squad car was parked in front of the Fond du Lac County Communications Center when the suspect’s vehicle slammed into it from behind. The squad was unoccupied at the time. Both vehicles had to be towed but no injuries have been reported.
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