City of Durand officials met with members of the Durand Swim Club recently to discuss details of the new pool project. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says one area they talked about was how to recognize all the donors to the pool project. The city and swim club also discussed how the money raised by the fundraising will be transferred to the city to pay for the project. Construction is expected to begin this year on the new pool.
The Durand-Arkansaw School Board has approved the 2024-25 High School Course handbook. Superintendent Greg Doverspike says the handbook is more of a catalog of classes offered. Now that the handbook is approved, the high school staff will start scheduling classes for the upcoming year.
The group that will try and see Eau Claire through the closings at HSHS and Prevea has its leaders. The group yesterday named Retired healthcare executive Bill Rupp and president of Northwestern Bank in Chippewa Falls Jerry Jacobson to lead the task force. Their goal will be to help find answers for workers, patients, and the community once HSHS and Prevea close this spring.
The Eau Claire man charged with beating his wife pleaded not guilty to her death on Monday. John Berthold, 81, entered the plea of not guilty to the charge of first-degree intentional homicide. He is charged in the death last July of his 77-year-old wife Diane. Authorities say he told investigators his wife was a narcissist and he "couldn't take it anymore." He also said he had been planning to kill her for weeks, and told a deputy he would do it again. Berthold will return to court in March.
Tim Johnson is out at another western Wisconsin school district. Chippewa Falls Schools yesterday said Johnson resigned as their head of human resources and public relations. Johnson is under investigation for his time as superintendent of the Glenwood City Schools. A former substitute teacher says Johnson billed Glenwood City Schools about 80 thousand-dollars for grad school classes he may never have taken. Johnson left Glenwood City Schools last summer. Chippewa Falls' school board accepted Johnson's resignation last night.
A longshot Democratic candidate for president is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to add him to the primary ballot. Minnesota Congressman Dean Phillips on Friday asked the high court to add him to the April ballot. Wisconsin Democrats added only President Joe Biden when they nominated candidates for the primary earlier this month. Phillips says he reached-out to Wisconsin Democrats back in December about being added to the ballot but never heard back. Phillips says he got about 20 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, even though he had to run as a write-in candidate.
WILL is going to court to try and save Act 10. The law firm filed a lawsuit yesterday to head-off potential challenges to the law that changed how schools have to deal with their teachers' union. WILL's case is on behalf of a public school employee who doesn't want to be forced into the union. Act 10 has saved nearly 17 billion-dollars since it became law in 2011. School teacher union membership has also plummeted in the decade-plus that Act 10 has been a law.
A proposal in the Wisconsin Legislature would add a black-and-white license plate option to the vanity plate list. The plate, which would have a black background and white text, has been a popular option for motorists in Iowa and Minnesota. In Iowa, blackout plates have brought more than 30-million dollars in revenue since they became available in 2019. In Minnesota, the plates were introduced on January 1 and more than 16-hundred were sold in the first two days. The Wisconsin bill's co-authors say the addition would be an extra source of revenue for the state's road projects. They would cost 25-dollars more than standard plates, and an additional 25-per-year as a renewal fee.
Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to do something about childhood obesity this week. An Assembly panel will hold a hearing on Wednesday on the proposals that came from the Speakers' Task Force On Childhood Obesity. They include two plans to spend about five million-dollars on childhood obesity prevention and management. There's another plan that would require schools across the state to have at least three hours of physical activity per-week.
A new Forbes Advisor Study says Wisconsin ranks 40th in the US for E-cigarette usage. Wisconsin is tied with Maryland and Florida for the third-lowest increase in vaping among adults between 20-16 and 20-22. The study also found that nationally E-cigarettes are used by 11-percent of people in Generation Z.
The American Red Cross is still looking for donors after 15-thousand donations were canceled nationwide this month. Wisconsin Red Cross Spokesperson Mary Jane Thomsen says they've partnered with the NFL to give away tickets to the Super Bowl. You'll have to donate blood by the end of January to qualify for those tickets. You can find that app and sign up for a blood drive online at Red Cross Blood dot Org.
An Illinois man is looking at charges for a high-speed chase last week that deputies say topped 100-miles-per-hour. The sheriffs in both Dodge and Columbia counties say 19-year-old Mario Gonzalez from Rockford, Illinois sped away from a traffic stop last Tuesday. Deputies finally had to use spike strips to stop his car. Gonzalez was in court last week and given a one thousand-dollar cash bond.
Staff at a northern Minnesota Goodwill store got an unwelcome surprise as they were unpacking a donation box over the weekend. Officials with True North Goodwill say a staff member at the Ashland store pulled a live hand grenade out of a box on Saturday. Staffers put the grenade outside, evacuated and closed the store and called the police. The grenade was secured by law enforcement and the store reopened yesterday. The store's assistant manager said the grenade was probably part of a World War Two collection that was mixed with other items and donated when someone passed away.
Bear the dog was found in one the most Milwaukee places ever. Bear, a 16-year-old shih tzu, escaped from Jenny Hazard's backyard last Wednesday. She searched and searched, but couldn't find him. That's when she got a text from someone who spotted her dog online. Turns out Bear went down the street to Finks bar. The bartender says it looks like a group of women found Bear, and then brought him to the bar to warm up. Hazard says Bear was having the time of his life at the bar, and she now has a story to remember him by.
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