A five-year-old was injured in an UTV accident in Nelson Township on Thursday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, 55yr old Robert Jacobson of Menomonie was operating an UTV when the UTV overturned, trapping a 5yr old underneath the vehicle. The location of the accident was found by utilizing an aerial drone. Firefighters had to use ATV's to transport the 5-year-old from the scene of the accident. He was med-flighted to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Uneven and steep terrain were factors in the accident.
A 3 week detour of Hwy 10 west of Durand begins today as crews start the reconstruction of Hwy 10 from Durand to the Pierce County Line is beginning today. The detour is necessary as crews will be replacing culverts near Arkansaw. Hwy 10 will be detoured to Hwy 72 in Downsville. The project includes ditch work, milling of the existing roadway and replacing the pavement, new shouldering and guard rails. The project is expected to be completed in August. Motorists are also reminded that Hwy 10 is closed from just west of Ellsworth to Prescott for another reconstruction project.
Motorists in Menomonie that use Hwy B north of I-94 will need to find an alternate route starting today. Construction is beginning today on a reconstruction of Hwy B from Badger Drive to 650th Avenue. The road will be reconstructed and new storm sewers, curb and gutter, and street lighting will be replaced. The Union Pacific Railroad will also be reconstructing the railroad crossing. The project is expected to be completed in late June.
The Village of Arkansaw's sanitary sewer district is exploring the possibility of hooking up to the City of Durand Sewer System. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the Arkansaw District has aprroxitmatly 100 customers and the amount of sewage would not adversely affect the Durand Water Treatment Plant. The Village of Arkansaw is exploring possible grants to assist in paying for that project.
The Buffalo County Extension sub-committee and the Buffalo County Board took action to appoint Steve Okonek as the UW-Madison, Division of Extension Regional Crops Educator serving Buffalo County. Okonek began this new appointment on March 4, 2024. He will also be serving Trempealeau and Jackson Counties. Okonek is very familiar with the Driftless area. He has lived in the Buffalo, Trempealeau, and Jackson area since January of 1991. He grew up near Spooner, WI and studied at UW-River Falls where he received a BS degree in Farm Management with a minor in Animal Science. He received an MS in Agronomy from Iowa State. He worked for 12 years as an independent crop consultant throughout our counties.
The Wabasha County Board is meeting tomorrow morning. Items on the agenda include a discussion of the first quarter financial reports, accept the bid for diesel fuel supplies for the county high shops and approval of a contract to Fitzgerald Excavating and Trucking for the County Hwy 22 project. Tomorrow's meeting begins at 9 in the board room at the government center in Wabasha.
Nearly two-dozen Minnesota water systems currently have PFAS contamination that exceeds new federal limits. The state Department of Health released its list of the water systems affected shortly after the EPA announced the new limits this week. Eleven of the affected systems are in the Twin Cities area, while the rest are in communities such as Wabasha, Austin, Cloquet, Bemidji and Sauk Rapids. Affected water systems will five years to find ways to address the contamination and reduce it to the new federal standard.
The Durand-Arkansaw High School Athletic Department is proud to announce the selection of Katie Bignell and Ryan Mason as the 2023-24 Dunn-St Croix Conference Scholar Athletes. Each member school district within the Dunn-St Croix Conference was invited to nominate one boy and one girl for scholar-athlete honors. Criteria for selection include grade point, number of varsity letters earned during the high school career, individual awards, and participation in lead-up competition to the State Tournament. These two student-athletes received recognition at the conference level and were honored as Dunn-St Croix Conference Scholar Athletes at the ninth annual Dunn-St Croix Conference Scholar-Athlete banquet at the Off Broadway Banquet & Conference Center in Menomonie on Wednesday, April 3rd.
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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin has announced that Western Technical College, in collaboration with eight other colleges from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS), will receive over $5.7 million to help students prepare for careers in advanced manufacturing. The grant will be used to expand training capacity, skill development, and credentialing within advanced manufacturing programs. The funding comes through the Department of Labor’s Strengthening Community Colleges Training Grants program, which Senator Baldwin recently voted to fund through the bipartisan 2024 government funding bill.
A Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreak in dairy cattle herds is making news headlines and causing concern among consumers. Adam Brock is the administrator of the Division of Food and Recreational Safety for the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture. He says consumers need to know that the U.S. milk supply is safe. Brock also reminds consumers that the milk from any sick cows is segregated and not included in the milk supply.
The next race for the Supreme Court in Wisconsin just got more interesting. Longtime liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley yesterday announced that she is not running for re-election. Bradley has been on the court for nearly 30 years, and said it's time to pass the torch. Her decision opens-up the race for Democrats. Former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel is running. Yesterday he said he's running for the court, not against someone else. Next year's Supreme Court race is expected to be just as contentious, and just as expensive as the race last year. That race, which saw Justice Janet Protasiewicz elected, is the most expensive judicial race ever. It saw over 56 million-dollars spent by both sides.
A Minneapolis clinic is taking legal action against a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary over the fallout from its cyberattack earlier this year, Twin Cities Counseling officials say it hasn't been able to submit payment claims for more than 100 appointments since the defendant Change Healthcare took down the claims processing system to contain the IT threat. Because of the billing mess, the plaintiff couldn't cover its payroll in March. After the February cyberattack, Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group was hit by federal class action lawsuits filed in Minnesota by patients struggling to get medications at pharmacies due to the IT system shutdown.
A U.S. Senate candidate is shifting her campaign to the Wisconsin State Senate instead. Stacey Klein says she's suspending her current campaign to focus on the Wisconsin 32nd district senate race. This district covers the La Crosse area. She is a Western Wisconsin native and was recently re-elected to the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors. Klein is also the County Republican Party secretary. Currently, the district is represented by Democratic Senator Brad Pfaff , who is seeking re-election.
A zoo in southern Minnesota is welcoming a new animal. Oxbow Park and Zollman Zoo introduced a new female black bear on social media yesterday. Zoo officials say the two-year-old bear was purchased from Bear Country USA in South Dakota. The zoo's 24-year-old black bear died in November after losing the ability to use her back legs
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