While North Eau Claire Street in Mondovi is now open, many residents along the street are not happy with the outcome of the project. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss says it is due to the way the project was designed. Weiss says the city will look at legal action against the engineering firm and is currently looking at having an outside firm come in to do an audit of the project.
The City of Durand and Durand Swim Club continue to look for additional donations for the Tarrant Park Pool Project. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says potential donors like the fact that there is now a certain amount needed for the project. The city and swim club need to raise an additional $1 million by December to have the project move forward.
An Arcadia man is dead after a vehicle vs semi accident on I-90 near Dresbach, MN Wednesday night. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, Donald Suchla, 87, of Arcadia, Wisconsin, was driving east in a pick-up truck and a semi-truck was westbound when the two collided. Suchla died in the crash and the semi driver from Albert Lea was not injured.
One of Eau Claire's library managers says the homeless problem at the city's public library is so bad they need a security guard to deal with it. Library trustee Charlie Schell told city council members on Monday that last winter saw dozens of problems with homeless people either falling asleep, throwing up, or causing other problems. He says in one shift he had to call the police five times. Eau Claire library managers say the library welcomes everyone, and they don't want to turn anyone away, but the library is going to hire a full-time security guard. A study last year said hiring a security guard for the library would cost over 70-thousand dollars, a vote to spend that money will come next month.
A man who pulled a gun on his neighbor sent Ladysmith Schools into lockdown. Police say it happened about 3:30 yesterday afternoon. Ladysmith Police say 57-year-old Corwin Blackwell pointed a rifle at his neighbor while the neighbor was mowing his lawn. It happened not far from Ladysmith Elementary School, and while the kids were already gone, school officials ordered a lockdown for anyone who was left in the building. Police arrested Blackwell on first-degree recklessly endangering safety charges.
Western Wisconsin's congressman is once again refusing to apologize for how he behaved. A report in Politico says Congressman Derrick Van Orden yelled and cursed during a White House briefing on Israel earlier in the week. The story says Van Orden directly cursed one of the people who was presenting the briefing. Van Orden yesterday issued a statement where he didn't apologize. Instead, he blasted the Biden Administration for minimizing the role that Iran played in the attacks on Israel and said Democrats continue to make excuses for the president. Van Orden made national headlines back in August when he screamed at a number of Senate pages who were taking pictures in the Capitol rotunda.
It's not one-point-seven-billion dollars, but it is something. The Wisconsin Lottery says a 100-thousand-dollar ticket was sold for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing in Tomah. Someone who shops at the Tomah Mini Mart bought that winning ticket. Meanwhile, Lottery managers say a Kwik Trip in Grand Chute sold a 50-thousand-dollar winning ticket. Of course, it was someone in California who again bought the big winner, worth one-point-seven-six-billion-dollars.
There is now a lawsuit that challenges school choice in Wisconsin. Kirk Bangstad, who owns the Minocqua Brewing Company, is leading the legal challenge to Wisconsin's school choice programs. His suit says Wisconsin's voucher program is designed to 'harm school districts,' and has been 'devastating' to Wisconsin public schools. Bangstad says school choice violates the Wisconsin Constitution's public purpose requirement and uniform taxation clause. Wisconsin's state superintendent of schools says she welcomes the lawsuit because she sees it as an opportunity for the state to put money where she thinks the priorities should be. School choice supporters in Wisconsin say school choice has helped kids escape failing public schools for years.
A showdown is coming at the Wisconsin Capitol over who gets to play girls' sports in the state, and whether kids can have sex change surgeries. Republicans in the State Assembly yesterday approved a plan that would declare girls' sports for biological girls only, and another that would ban gender-affirming care for children. Governor Tony Evers has promised to veto the plans, and Democrats at the Capitol say they are anti-trans. Republican State Rep. Barb Dietrich says the proposal to keep girls sports for girls only is 'pro-woman,' and State Rep. Scott Allen says the ban on gender-affirming care for children simply gives transgender kids time to make a decision.
Recent rainfall is helping slowly ease drought conditions in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map released yesterday shows that five-percent of Minnesota state is experiencing extreme drought, down from seven-point-six-percent last week while 6.7 percent of Wisconsin is in extreme drought. Here in Western Wisconsin, the levels of severe and moderate drought are also down this week, while areas considered abnormally dry have increased. Conditions could improve even more next week, as rain is expected in many parts of the WRDN Listening area through the weekend.
A suspect is in custody after five officers in Minnesota were shot Thursday morning. It happened in Glendorado Township, which is in east central Minnesota about 60 miles from Minneapolis. All five officers are expected to survive. Officials said the suspect confronted and opened fire on the officers while they executed a search warrant. The suspect was eventually taken into custody without incident hours after the shooting happened.
Wisconsin is one of several states where consumers will be reimbursed for the sales tax they paid on feminine hygiene products such as tampons and pads. The brands include August, Cora, Lola, The Honey Pot, Rael, Here We Flo, Saalt, and Diva. Wisconsin shoppers can submit a photo of their receipts at tampontaxback-dot-com and get the money back with Venmo or Paypal within 24 hours.
The Mayo Clinic is joining an effort to study and improve the treatment of bipolar disorder. The healthcare organization is joining five other U.S. hospitals as part of the Bee-Dee-Squared network. About four-thousand patients will be part of the study over the next five years. Mayo Clinic officials say the goal of the effort is to catch symptoms of bipolar disorder sooner and offer more precise treatment options when it is diagnosed. The University of Michigan, UCLA, Johns Hopkins University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and U-T Health Houston are also part of the initial group of institutions that have joined the network.
A number of Republican lawmakers say they did not vote to send Milwaukee more money so Milwaukee's mayor could give himself a raise. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson this week introduced a proposal that would boost pay for elected officials in the city by 15-percent. State Rep. Barb Dittrich said that's not why she voted for the shared revenue plan. She said she was told the city of Milwaukee was on the brink of bankruptcy. Milwaukee's Common Council president says they are giving the pay raise proposal a serious look. under the plan Milwaukee's mayor would go from a salary of 147-thousand-dollars a year to 169-thousand-dollars a year.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union says workers in four states have voted to ratify a new contract with Hormel. The union announced late last night that meatpacking plants in Minnesota, Georgia, Wisconsin and Iowa approved the contract. According to the union, employees will get raises between three and six-dollars an hour as well as increases in bereavement leave and pension and 401-K benefits. The contract will expire in four years. Hormel's Austin, Minnesota plant employs about 17-hundred workers.
The choice for the “Coolest Thing Made in Wisconsin” is now down to four items. The finalists in the bracket-style tournament known as “Manufacturing Madness” put on by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce include the Bevi Bottleless Water Dispenser from Plexus Corporation of Neenah, the Applewood Smoked Bacon made by Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Meats of Wittenberg, the 90th Anniversary Limited Edition Sno-Throw from Ariens Company of Brillion, and the Thorogood American Heritage Six-Inch Tobacco Safety Toe Work Book from Weinbrenner Shoe Company of Merrill. The final round of voting is on ‘til noon of October 19th at the website “Made In W-I-S” dot com.
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