The Durand City Council is holding a special meeting tonight to discuss funding for the Tarrant Park Pool. The council will also go into a closed session to discuss the pool funding. After the closed session, the council will reconvene with possible action on the Tarrant Park Pool. Tonight's special meeting begins at 6pm at Durand City Hall.
Menomonie police are looking for suspects connected to thefts from vehicles. On October 29th, the Menomonie Police Department received nine reports of “smash and grab thefts” from locked vehicles near parks. Two unidentified suspects used financial cards belonging to victims at the Menomonie Walmart. The suspects were seen driving a grey Dodge Durango RT, with unknown plates. The public is asked to call Menomonie police if they have any information on the thefts.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers visited UW Stout yesterday. Evers spoke with professors and students at UW-Stout who are a part of polytechnic and video game design programs. UW-Stout is the only polytechnic university in Wisconsin. Chancellor Frank said within 6 months of graduation, 99.4% of students have workforce placements.
The Eau Claire City Council President is defending a plan to bring 75 refugees to the city next year after a Republican Congressman raised concerns. Seventh District Congressman Tom Tiffany of Wausau said in a letter he was concerned if refugees were being brought to Eau Claire from unstable countries like Somalia. Council President Emily Berge [[ BURGE ]] wrote back telling Tiffany immigrants are part of the Eau Claire story. She says Eau Claire is built on Native lands that were settled by early German and Norwegian immigrants. The City Attorney says the refugee program is being planned under applicable federal laws.
An investigation into alleged hazing in the Plainview-Elgin-Millville school district is being handed over to the Wabasha County Attorney's Office. The Plainview Police Department has been investigating since late September after reports of hazing during the district's homecoming week. School district officials have said corrective action was taken after unsafe and unacceptable behavior took place, but have not commented on any specific incidents. The county attorney must now determine if the behavior reported should result in charges against specific students.
There are charges against the man who Eau Claire Police say went on a naked, meth-fueled Halloween bender. Prosecutors yesterday charged Cole Evenson with eight crimes after police say he stripped naked, barged into a house, smashed a TV, and nearly stabbed his roommate's dog to death. Officers tased Evenson to get him under control. He was in court yesterday, where he was given a one-thousand-dollar bond. He's due back in court next week.
Two deer in western Wisconsin have tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirms the first positive test results for Chronic Wasting Disease in wild deer in Polk and Trempeleau counties. Both were hunter-harvested three-year-old does. Polk County will begin a three-year baiting and feeding ban on December 1, and neighboring Barron County will renew its ban already in place. Trempealeau and Jackson counties will also renew existing bans. State law requires the DNR to enact a three-year baiting and feeding ban in counties where CWD is detected, as well as a two-year ban in adjoining counties within 10 miles of a detection.
Police in Stanley say there was nothing dangerous on the train cars that derailed early yesterday morning. Ten cars jumped the tracks just north and west of Stanley. The city's police department took to Facebook yesterday to say there was no danger to the people living nearby. No one is saying just what caused the derailment, the Canadian National Railway says it is investigating.
The UW's president wants university administrators to push lawmakers for their raises. University president Jay Rothman told administrators in an email this week to continue pushing state lawmakers to restore the four-percent pay bump that they eliminated just last week. Rothman says he's asked campus chancellors to call on 'alumni networks and local civic and business leaders' to also pressure lawmakers. The Republican-controlled legislature scuttled the UW pay raises in the ongoing fight over diversity, equity, and inclusion spending at the universities.
Lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol want to make it clear that credit card companies cannot track people who buy guns in the state. An Assembly committee will hold a hearing today on a plan that would ban credit card tracking codes for gun purchases, as well as stop any government from keeping a list of gun owners. Gun owners worry that credit card companies could keep a list of who shops where, and then use that list to get around rules against gun owner registries.
President Joe Biden announced a new rural investment plan in Minnesota. The president talked to residents at Dutch Creek Farms near Northfield yesterday. He says he wants to put more than five billion dollars into agriculture businesses to adapt to climate change and utilize the internet to improve its infrastructure. President Biden says this will be the most significant investment in rural America since the Eisenhower administration.
Companies that provide electricity and natural gas in Minnesota are asking state regulators for a rate increase. Xcel Energy, CenterPoint and Minnesota Power all filed rate requests with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission yesterday. Xcel and CenterPoint are asking for a nine-percent increase, while Minnesota Power asked for a 12-percent increase that would generate about 90-million dollars in revenue. Because it could take up to a year for the commission to approve the requests, the companies are also asking for an interim rate increase that would take effect on January 1st.
Clerks in Wisconsin would be allowed to start processing absentee ballots a day before Election Day, under a bill being considered at the Capitol. Assembly Elections Committee chair, Representative Scott Krug of Nekoosa said it would help to prevent claims of election fraud. Election officials could not start counting the votes early under this proposal but could perform certain checks to ensure the ballots are ready to be counted on Election Day.
Governor Tony Evers has filed a lawsuit against several Republican lawmakers for withholding pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees and rejecting conservation projects. Evers argues the actions made by GOP lawmakers who control several committees are violations of the state constitution. Republican leaders have blocked pay adjustments for 35-thousand UW employees, stopped projects under the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program, and updates to ethical standards for social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists. Evers is calling on the state Supreme Court to take the case directly.
Health insurance enrollment opens today on the health insurance marketplace through January 15. Anyone who already has marketplace insurance can renew, update, or upgrade their plans during this time. First-time enrollees will also be eligible to shop the marketplace. Information for comparing plans is available at Wis-Covered dot com. Actual enrollment is done on the federal website Healthcare.gov.
A train derailment Tuesday afternoon in Janesville. The derailment brought traffic to a standstill around the Five Points intersection of the city near the Rock River. Janesville officials said the cars that overturned were carrying grain and there was no risk to the public. Police reported no injuries. Authorities believe the derailment was an accident and nothing suspicious is suspected. The rail company is still determining what caused the derailment.
The Wisconsin Addiction Recovery Helpline is celebrating five years of service. 31-thousand calls, texts, and chats have been received and answered since it started in 2018. The free, anonymous service is supported by grants from the Department of Health Services to decrease drug overdoses. The Helpline has referred nearly 79-thousand people to substance use agencies for counseling, inpatient care, medication-assisted treatment, and other services since it began.
Personal finance website WalletHub is out this week with the results of a new survey ranking the best cities to live in for veterans. WalletHub looked at 19 key metrics from the country's 100 largest U.S. cities to put their list together. Among the factors considered were housing affordability, the availability of military skill-related jobs, and the number of V.A. health facilities. Madison placed 17th on the list with Raleigh North Carolina at number one.
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