The Durand-Arkansaw School board is holding a special meeting tonight. Only two items are on the agenda and both involve personnel. The board will take action on the resignation of the Middle School- Hig School Band Director and the resignation of the Caddie Woodlawn Title I Teacher. Tonight's meeting begins at 5pm in the board room at Durand High School.
The City of Durand would support the governor's proposed increase in shared revenue. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the city would support not only an increase in the shared revenue but also an increase in transportation aids for street repairs. The Governor is set to release he proposed biennial budget today.
One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Dunn County Monday. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, 60yr old Martin Pederson of Eau Claire was traveling on Hwy 64 and made a left turn onto Hwy 25 south in front of a semi driven by 44yr old Brandon Duffy of Jim Falls. Pederson was trapped in his vehicle and was extricated by firefighters and med flighted to Mayo Hospital in Eau Claire. The semi-driver was not hurt. That accident remains under investigation.
Everyone is okay after a house fire in Chippewa Falls yesterday evening. Firefighters say they got a call to a house on Dover Street just before 6 p.m. That's when they found a sparking light fixture and a fire in the attic. Crews quickly put out the flames. The damage was limited to about 10 thousand dollars, but the family had to find a new place to stay last night because of the smoke and water.
Motorists in Buffalo County will have some construction zones to deal with starting Monday. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, says Governor Tony Evers has signed a $4.25 million contract with Prime contractor Larson Construction Co. of Chippewa Falls for the replacement of three bridges on Wisconsin Highway 35 that carry traffic over a tributary of the Mississippi River in Buffalo County. Three structures, two in Fountain City and one southeast of Fountain City, were built in 1951 and have reached the end of their lives and will be replaced. During construction, Wisconsin Highway 35 will be reduced to one lane over the structures, and traffic will be controlled by temporary traffic signals. The project is expected to be completed in August.
The school aide in Black River Falls caught on tape saying something the school district deemed racially insensitive has resigned. The district confirmed the aide's resignation yesterday. A student, Naomi Thunder, recorded the aide suggesting that she 'collect a check' and said Thunder didn't care about her future. The aide was placed on leave earlier this month as the school district investigated.
Wisconsin's governor wants over two and a half billion dollars more for public schools in the state. Governor Evers released his education budget preview yesterday. In addition to a lot more money, the governor wants a statewide free school lunch program, a new focus on student mental health, and a look at student literacy before the fourth grade. The governor has proposed many of the ideas in the past, and the Republicans who control the state legislature have shot them down. Republican lawmakers are expected to do the same with almost all of the governor's suggestions this year as well.
Prospective school bus drivers in Wisconsin won't need to learn their carburetors and fuel pumps, at least not anytime soon. The DMV yesterday said it will continue the waiver for the engine parts portion of the bus drivers' test. Wisconsin began waving that part of the exam in January of last year to make it easier for schools to hire drivers. The new waiver will last until November of next year. The DMV says all other parts of the bus driver's test, including the written test and the road test will remain in place.
As a part of his biennial budget to be announced Wednesday, Governor Evers proposes putting a chunk of it toward keeping up the Milwaukee Brewers’ home stadium. Evers says Tuesday he would ask for a one-time cash payment of $290 million to the Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District, which owns and leases American Family Field to the Brewers, to fund maintenance, repairs, and improvements to the stadium. The proposal would also require the Brewers to chip in on the improvements, sign a non-relocation agreement, and extend the team’s lease to the ballpark to the year 2043. The Brewers recently pointed out that the district didn’t have the money to fund needed upgrades specified in their lease. If the ballpark district can’t fulfill the lease obligations, the Brewers could leave Milwaukee.
The Oneida County Sheriff's Department cites eight people for operating a snowmobile while intoxicated over the first weekend of February. The department tells WAOW-TV in Wausau most of the citations were issued after people crashed their sleds or were stopped by law enforcement. Officials remind snowmobilers to be respectful while on the roads and trails and don't operate a snowmobile while drunk since alcohol impairs an operator’s ability to control their snowmobile and obey road signs. The state Department of Natural Resources reports ten people have died in snowmobile-related crashes since the beginning of the year.
Bond is set at two million dollars for a former Manitowoc County man charged in a decades-old murder. Sixty-seven-year-old Gene Meyer is charged in Outagamie County Court with the 1988 murder and sexual assault of Betty Rolf of Grand Chute, whose body was found under a bridge. In 2001 DNA was identified from Rolf’s autopsy, and a familial DNA search done in 2019 led to Meyer. Meyer was arrested in Washington State in December after a DNA sample from his truck matched that collected during the autopsy.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to the ruling on UW-Health's nurses' union. The justices yesterday refused to accept the case. SEIU wanted the Supreme Court to decide if UW-health must recognize its nurse's union. Wisconsin's Employment Relations Commission ruled back in November that it did not. Nurses are fighting for union representation, but the hospital is exempt from the state's union laws and can recognize the union if it wants, but the hospital is not required to recognize the nurses union.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is leaving for Norway today. His office says the purpose of the trip is to strengthen Minnesota's military and economic ties with the nation. Governor Walz is expected to take part in a signing ceremony for an official state sponsorship program in Trondheim, Norway. They will observe the 50th anniversary of the Norwegian Reciprocal Troop Exchange. NOREX is the longest-running military exchange partnership between any two countries.
Data shows the most popular Valentine's Day candy in Wisconsin is a heart-shaped box of chocolates. Candy-store-dot-com says second and third in Wisconsin are M and M's and conversation hearts. Candy-store-dot-com says it uses 15 years of online bulk candy sales data to determine the most popular Valentine's Day candy in each state. It says a record 57-percent of consumers are expected to buy Valentine's Day candy this year.
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