Last night, the Durand Police and the Pepin County Sheriff's Department responded to multiple calls of shots fired in the area of Washington Street and 3rd Avenue East. According to a social media post from Durand Police, officers responded and the investigation into the incident continues. There is no threat to the public.
One person is dead after a semi vs pickup truck accident in the Town of Elk Mound last night. According to the Dunn County Sheriff's Department, a 70-year-old female was driving a pickup westbound on Hwy 29, attempting to turn south onto 970th street, and failed to yield to an eastbound semi that was hauling pigs. After impact, both vehicles went off the road, down a steep embankment, and struck several trees. The semi-driver was not injured, but the female was pronounced dead at the scene by the Dunn County Medical Examiner's Office. That accident remains under investigation.
No one was injured when a fuel truck overturned in Canton Township on Monday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriffs Department, 39-year-old Jason Bechel of Durand was traveling southbound on Tiffany Valley Road when he lost control, entered the southbound ditch knocked over a power pole and overturned. Electric wires were over the semi and Excel Energy was called in to shut off power so the truck could be towed out of the ditch. Approximately 5 gallons of fuel leaked from the tanker. That accident remains under investigation.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a review of the 2024 property tax levy and budget, approval of a contract for a new city administrator and discussion of the contract for residential garbage and recycling services. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
The Buffalo County Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and action on the proposed 2024 budget and property tax levy, a resolution changing the fee schedule for environmental health and sanitation, and a resolution to support the designation of the Mississippi River Trail inside Buffalo County. Tonight's meeting begins at 7pm at the government center in Alma.
The Dunn County Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on the 2024 property tax levy and budget, a resolution to borrow $3 million, and reports from county committees. Tonight's meeting begins at 7pm at the Dunn County Government Center in Menomonie.
The Durand Fire Department has announced 1st Lieutenant Mark Poeschel as the 2023 Firefighter of the Year. Poeschel has been with the department for 8 years and was recently promoted to the rank of 1st Lieutenant at the beginning of this year.
There continues to be opposition to the idea of moving refugee families to Eau Claire. Nearly 50 people turned out at last night's city council meeting to once again say they don't want 75 mostly Somali refugees moved into the city. The group World Relief is pushing to resettle the refugees by the end of next year. Many of the people who don't want to see them moved here continue to ask what the refugees will do, and where they will work. World Relief says it's a matter of compassion. City leaders have said they don't have much to do with the plan, saying that between World Relief and the federal government.
Police have identified a man accused who driving onto the runway at La Crosse Regional Airport over the weekend. 31-year-old Cody Anderson of Wallace, Idaho allegedly drove through a locked gate and boarded a private aircraft on Saturday. Airport staff prevented the plane from taking off and Anderson was arrested. Anderson was given a $500,000 cash bond in court on Monday. Online court records show he's charged with 5 felonies including making terrorist threats and attempted armed robbery.
Applications for grant programs to help private well owners in Wisconsin will be accepted until December 6 of next year or when money runs out. Governor Tony Evers says the Well Compensation and Well Abandonment Grant Programs are providing ten-million dollars in assistance to help well owners address contamination. Money can go toward replacement, reconstruction, treatment, or abandoning impacted wells. Due to expanded criteria announced last year, many people who previously didn't qualify for grants are now eligible. So far, the DNR has given more than 46-percent of the ten-million dollars in funding to 370 grantees.
We're going to get another look at how well Wisconsin's public schools are doing today. The state's Department of Public Instruction will release the school and school district report cards later today. The new report cards will give a better picture of how kids in Wisconsin are doing on the state's standardized tests. They will also provide parents a look at both their child's school and their school district. The statewide report cards came out last month, and continue to show that nearly 60 percent of kids in Wisconsin cannot read or do math at grade level. Today's report cards will show which schools and school districts are doing better than that mark, and which are doing worse.
The new helipad for rural Rusk and Chippewa counties is now open. Leaders cut the ribbon Sunday on the landing area in Lake Holcombe. Town of Lake Holcombe Chairman Brian Guthman says the new helipad will allow paramedics to get to rural parts of the two counties much faster. Crews started work on the new helipad back in June, they will have some minor touch-ups to add come the spring.
A new law is being proposed that would ban anyone convicted of violent offenses from buying or possessing guns in Wisconsin. The bill is supported by State Senator Kelda Roys and State Representative Lisa Subeck, both of Madison. The idea is supported by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul. The bill reorganizes disorderly conduct and the definition of domestic abuse, so that someone convicted of disorderly conduct as a result of domestic abuse would be banned from buying or having guns.
Plenty of Wisconsinites will be traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday. Triple-A projects more than 1.1 million Wisconsinites will travel 50 miles or more during the period from the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to the Sunday after. The number of travelers is the third highest on record and a 2.4% increase over last year. Those travelers will be giving thanks for lower gas prices this year, with an average gas cost of $3.14 per gallon, down from $3.58 a gallon last Thanksgiving. Most of the travelers in the state will drive, but over 113,000 Wisconsinites will fly to their destinations, which is an 8.3% increase over a record-setting 2022 total.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the gun deer hunting season that begins next weekend will see fewer hunters than last year. DNR says 600-thousand hunters will be in the field, a two-percent decline in the number who bought licenses last season. DNR wildlife experts say fewer hunters means Wisconsin's deer overpopulation could become worse and that's reflected in the number of deer killed by cars and trucks. The Department of Transportation says vehicle crashes kill between 15-thousand and 19-thousand deer every year. Gun deer hunting season runs from next Saturday, November 18th, through Sunday, November 26th.
Minnesota Democrats are discussing the possibility of a state constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights. Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman tells WCCO-TV that lawmakers are uncertain about pursuing such an amendment, saying it isn't a top priority at the moment. But Hortman says it is a very "motivating" issue for state Democrats and could wind up on the ballot next year or in 2026. Seven states have passed constitutional amendments to protect abortion rights, with Ohio becoming the latest to do so earlier this week.
Microsoft is looking to double its billion-dollar-plus investment in Mount Pleasant. The company last week announced plans to spend another one-point-four billion-dollars on its data center project. Microsoft first announced its data center plans earlier this year. This announcement is on top of that original project. The Microsoft center will be built on some of the land that was set aside for the Foxconn project. Racine County and the village of Mount Pleasant will have to agree to some development terms, but Microsoft is pledging to spend the extra billion-dollars by the end of 2028.
Minnesota has one of the worst pothole problems in the country. That's according to a new report from USA Today. It used Google Trends data from the last three years to find the states with the most pothole-related issues. Minnesota ranked second in the nation, only behind Washington State. The report also looked at U.S. cities with the worst pothole problems. Minneapolis ranked third. New York City took the top spot and Los Angeles ranked in second place. According to data from Triple-A, 44-million drivers paid for vehicle repairs due to pothole damage last year. The average repair bill was around 400-dollars.
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