The bids are in for the Tarrant Park Pool Project. During last night's city council meeting, Public Works Superintendent Matt Gills presented the three bids. The lowest bid from Durand Builders for a base pool was approximately $3.9 million. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says now the city and Swim Club will try to get the rest of the funding for the pool. Approximately $1 million is needed in donations to complete funding for a base pool. The city has until December 13 to decide whether or not to move forward with the project.
The Dunn County Health Department is giving residents free disposal bins to collect medical waste. The Health Department is able to give the bins away because of a $1,000 grant from the Community Foundation of Dunn County. The Health Department hopes the disposal bins will reduce the spread of bloodborne diseases and keep waste handlers safe. Dunn County Residents can visit the health department to pick up the bins for free.
A local non-profit agency is looking for teens help to reduce the number of underage tobacco sales in Dunn County. Arbor Place Incorporated is looking for 16, 17, and 18-year-old volunteers to help complete tobacco compliance checks at businesses that sell tobacco within Dunn County. Arbor Place for more information on the program.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will host a public meeting to discuss potential trout stream regulation changes on several streams in Pierce and St. Croix counties. The purpose of this meeting is to inform and gather input from the public on the potential changes to the current trout stream fishing regulations on the Rush River and its tributaries: Plum Creek, Isabelle Creek, Trimbelle River, Big River, and Kinnickinnic River and its tributaries in Pierce and St. Croix counties. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the River Falls Public Library Community Room, located at 140 Union Street in River Falls. Those wishing to attend virtually can join via Zoom or by phone.
Eau Claire County officials yesterday announced that it is expanding its plastics recycling program. Plastic Number Five will now be accepted. Most cities only accept Plastics Number One And Two, but some companies take more. Reagan Watts with the county says there's a market for Plastic Number Five so companies are now accepting that. If you're not sure just what Plastic Number Five is, Watts says there's always a number on whatever it is that you're looking to recycle, or you can look for a list online.
A Western Wisconsin high school student goes perfect on the A-C-T Exam. Eau Claire Memorial High School Senior William Sylvester scored 36 on his first try. He wants to attend Washington State or the University of Chicago to major in Political Science or Economics. In Wisconsin, the average A-C-T score is 19-point-four. The national average is 20-point-six.
There is a national manhunt for a Rusk County man who simply didn't show up at his sentencing on child abuse charges. The Rusk County Sheriff's Office yesterday took to social media to try to find Tylar Swanson. He didn't show up back in June to be sentenced on child abuse charges, now there's a national warrant for his arrest. The Rusk County Sheriff's Office put his pictures out online and says anyone who knows where he is should reach out.
A Sparta man is looking at felony charges after federal prosecutors say he was inside the Capitol during the January 6th riot. The Department of Justice announced charges against 37-year-old Charles Walters yesterday. Prosecutors say he destroyed some fencing, climbed onto the inaugural stage risers, and went inside the Capitol on January 6th. Court documents say Walters was identified from video of the day. There are no allegations that he did any damage, or hurt anyone once inside the building.
The new rules that make it clear school administrators cannot strip students down to their underwear is back at the Wisconsin Capitol. An Assembly panel will hold a hearing today on the legislation that follows up a strip search in a northeastern Wisconsin school district. The administrator in Suring schools had six high school students strip down to their underwear in an attempt to find a vape cartridge. Prosecutors initially filed charges but had to drop them because Wisconsin law doesn't consider underwear to be part of a strip search. The new legislation makes it clear that it is and makes it clear that school administrators shouldn't be strip-searching students.
There is legislation at the Wisconsin Capitol that would stop doctors from operating on or giving drugs to kids in an effort to change their gender. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a number of other Republicans yesterday introduced the plan. It would ban any surgery that results in sterilization, a mastectomy, puberty-blocking drugs, and other hormone treatments for children. Vos says 'our kids are not experiments,' and said parents shouldn't be 'scared or pressured' into having their kids get non-medically necessary treatments. The Assembly's LGBTQ+ Caucus yesterday said the proposal is objectively cruel and seeks to insert lawmakers into decisions that are best left for parents, children, and doctors.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined the Federal Trade Commission and 16 state attorneys general in suing Amazon. The suit alleges that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. The complaint alleges that Amazon violates the law not because it is big, but because it engages in a course of exclusionary conduct that prevents current competitors from growing and new competitors from emerging.
A woman is dead following a single-vehicle crash Tuesday in central Wisconsin. The Taylor County Sheriff’s Office says deputies found three people were ejected from the vehicle that crashed in the town of Medford. The woman who was determined to be a passenger in the vehicle died at the scene, while two men at the crash site were flown to a hospital by helicopter for their injuries. A preliminary investigation found that the vehicle was traveling over 100 miles per hour when the man driving the vehicle lost control while crossing a bridge. The vehicle then went off the road and flipped several times causing the ejections. Those involved in the crash were not identified. Speed and drugs are believed to be contributing factors.
Former U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan believes a federal government shutdown is imminent. In a Tuesday night conversation at UW-Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs, Ryan shared his thoughts on several topics in the political and policy realm, including his perception that several current Republican House members are pushing for a government shutdown. The federal government shut down twice in 2018 while Ryan served as Speaker. The longtime Wisconsin congressman is not in favor of a shutdown.
The Transportation Security Administration intercepted guns at the Milwaukee and Madison airports this week. According to the TSA, an officer at Dane County Regional Airport spotted a handgun during routine X-ray screening early Monday morning. A Dane County Sheriff's deputy responded to take the loaded gun. Also early Monday at Milwaukee Mitchell, a TSA agent spotted a handgun, again during X-ray screening. A sheriff’s deputy took possession of that gun, which was not loaded. These were the third and 16th guns detected at the respective airports so far this year.
A vice president at Minnesota State University-Mankato will soon be leaving for a new job in Wisconsin. Lynn Akey has been named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Akey has been responsible for strategic planning at the Mankato College for the past decade and is credited with increasing student retention and graduation rates. She'll begin her new job on January 2nd.
A Minnesota art gallery is asking a hefty price for the first painting ever done by Bob Ross on his long-running PBS show. The Modern Artifact Gallery in Minneapolis wants just under ten-million dollars for the painting, which is called "A Walk in the Woods." The painting was created more than 40 years ago on the first episode of "The Joy of Painting." It was the first of more than a thousand paintings done by Ross during the show's run.
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