The City of Durand will be spraying for mosquitoes tonight. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the spraying will begin at about 7pm. The spray lasts for about 24hrs and it costs the city approximately $1000 each time they spray. The city will have 3 more sprays remaining, and the plan is to use the next spray before Durand Fun Fest.
We now know who was killed in the fire in northern Dunn County back in March. The Dunn County Sheriff's Office yesterday said they used DNA to identify Dennis Miller, Sr. as the man who died in the fire. He was trapped in his house in the Township of New Haven when it caught fire. The home burned to the ground. No one is saying what caused that fire.
The Pierce Pepin Cares board approved a $1,500 grant for the Durand Fire Relief Association. The Durand Fire Relief Association requested a grant to purchase a new Tender (water truck) to replace its 1990 GMC Topkick tender. Pierce Pepin Cares grants are awarded quarterly by the Pierce Pepin Cares board of directors. The next application deadline is June 15.
Altoona is going to pay more for EMS service from Eau Claire. Eau Claire's city council on Tuesday agreed to charge Altoona 15 dollars per person for ambulance service for the next four years. Back in 2018, the two cities agreed to a deal that charged Altoona 12-dollars per-person. The new deal ends talk of Altoona striking out on its own for EMS service. Eau Claire's city attorney says the city needs to charge more because Altoona is using more of Eau Claire's EMS crews. Forty-three percent of EMS calls outside of Eau Claire came from Altoona last year.
We're going to have to wait for an updated plea in La Crosse's triple murder from back in 2021. Khamthaneth Rattanasack was in court yesterday for a scheduled plea hearing, but the judge put that on hold because of a disagreement over a DNA test for his co-defendant. The two are accused of shooting three people in a rock quarry in the Town of Hamilton in July of 2021. Investigators say the shooting came after a fight over stolen credit cards. While Rattanasack's plea is on hold, the other man charged in the case Nya Thao, is scheduled to go on trial next month.
Wisconsin's governor is going around the state to look for potholes. Governor Tony Evers yesterday launched what his office is calling the Pothole Patrol for 2023. The idea is to highlight Wisconsin's roads. The governor is also using the tour as a way to criticize Republican lawmakers who have dismissed his budget plan that looked to spend hundreds of millions of dollars from Wisconsin's surplus on new roads. The governor ran for office back in 2018 by promising to 'fix the damn roads.'
Wisconsin lawmakers are taking another look at new rules for licenses to work in the state. A Senate panel today will hold a hearing on five different plans to study how Wisconsin's professional licensing system is working, and what can be done to make it better. Republican lawmakers have been demanding answers from the state's Department of Safety and Professional Services for over a year about the months-long delay people face when trying to get or renew their license to work. One of the plans up for a hearing today will take a look at how other states handle their professional licenses, and whether Wisconsin can copy their ideas.
Minnesota Governor Walz has signed into law a ban on the collection of wild turtles in the state. Nonprofit researchers say each year, for-profit trappers collect thousands of turtles from Minnesota's waterways. A study has shown that turtle populations are lower in lakes where commercial trapping had occurred. Researchers say, unlike wild game such as deer, wild turtles take many years to mature and reproduce.
At least a half-million dollars in coronavirus grants went out the door in Wisconsin without any proof that the money was needed. A new audit blames Wisconsin's Department of Health Services for mismanaging COVID grants and the state's ventilator program. About a third of the grants the auditors reviewed didn't have any documentation 'to support their applicants or the amounts requested.' Auditors also found that DHS didn't track many of the 15-hundred ventilators the state bought for 39-million dollars during the early days of the outbreak. Six of those ventilators are missing.
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Minneapolis-based Target is removing products from its stores that celebrate the upcoming Pride Month as well as the LGBTQ community. The national retailer is responding to threats directed at workers. Some of the merchandise includes a rainbow-colored, tuck-friendly swimsuit made for transgenders as well as drag queen shirts. In recent days, there have been reports of some customers trashing the Pride sections at Target stores and being aggressive with store workers. The retailer also received threatening phone calls on its customer phone line.
A national report indicates Wisconsin has a higher percentage of prisoners incarcerated for crimes committed as youth than any state except Louisiana. The new report from the nonprofit organization Human Rights For Kids shows more than 7% of adult prison inmates committed crimes when they were 17 or younger. That's more than double the percentage nationwide. Wisconsin also has the fourth highest racial disparity among prisoners incarcerated for crimes committed as youth. Blacks make up just less than 8% of the state's population, but 60% of offenders are held for crimes committed when they were young.
Ashwaubenon wants fewer short-term rentals around Lambeau Field. The village board voted on Tuesday to require all short-term rentals to rent out their homes for six nights, at a minimum. Village officials say they get countless complaints that the rentals through VRBO or AirBNB are ruining neighborhoods. The village says 7 percent of the properties around Lambeau Field are now short-term rentals as compared to the 1 percent in the rest of the village. The owners of the properties say this will put them out of business.
Wausau will be suing PFAS manufacturers to recoup the costs of cleanup. Wausau's city council voted unanimously on Tuesday night to join a lawsuit against the companies that make the forever chemicals that are contaminating the city's water supply. Mayor Katie Rosenberg said that the goal of the lawsuit is to fight for the residents of Wausau and help the city pay for the costs affiliated with solving the problem. Companies including Tyco Fire Products, 3M, DuPont, Dow, and others have been sued by more than a dozen states due to PFAS contamination. 3M has a factory in Wausau.
An Oshkosh police officer has been cleared in a March shooting incident. The Winnebago County District Attorney’s office says the man involved in the shooting incident was accused of making threats to a homeless woman. When the suspect’s car was located in downtown Oshkosh, police made contact with the suspect. The man then reportedly backed his car into one of the squad cars on the scene, then drove at one of the officers who fired at and hit the suspect, who survived the shooting and is currently incarcerated in Milwaukee.
St. Paul and Minneapolis are at the top of the list nationally for park systems. St. Paul remains number two in the study conducted by the Trust for Public Land. The Minneapolis park system rose to the number three spot after they were number five. The top spot goes to Washington, D.C. Some of the factors used to measure parklands were access, improvements, and racial equity
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