One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Maiden Rock Township on Saturday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 19yr old Lewis Glazebrook of Cottage Grove, MN was traveling southbound on Hwy 35 when he and other vehicles in front of him stopped to allow a car to turn and was rear-ended by a southbound motorcycle driven by 76yr old Bruce Jon Klaenhammer of St. Paul. Klaenhammer was taken to Red Wing Hospital while Glazebrook and a passenger were uninjured.
The City of Mondovi will allow golf carts on city streets. At last night's council meeting the council passed an ordinance similar to Durand's ordinance that allows the use of golf carts on city streets. The owner must have a permit from the city, a driver's license, and insurance. There will be a $10 yearly fee for the permit from the city. Golf Carts will only be allowed on city streets and not Hwy 10 or 37.
Parents needing swimming lessons for their children can now have them take lessons in Ellsworth. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says Pepin County Health Department has offered to pay for bus transportation to and from Ellsworth for the lessons. The cost of the swimming lessons is $30 and for more information, contact Durand City Hall.
The Chippewa County Sheriff's Department is reminding motorists to slow down and move over after a deputy was nearly struck while at the scene of an accident. The deputy was responding to an accident on Hwy 29 in the town of Lafayette when a vehicle in the left lane swerves to the right to avoid hitting a slowing car in front of it. Body cam footage shows the deputy nearly being struck by the vehicle. The department is asking motorists to slow down and pay attention when emergency vehicles are on the side of the road.
The man who police say pointed a gun at an Eau Claire officer on Friday was released from jail yesterday. Thomas Burback was in court yesterday. He was possibly shot by an officer on Friday after police responded to Burback's house for a drunken domestic violence situation. The officer fired a shot at Burback after she said she saw him point a gun at her. Burback was taken to the hospital, but Eau Claire Police have never said if he was shot. A judge yesterday gave Burback a five thousand-dollar signature bond, and told him to return to court in the case in July.
Eau Claire says crews have cleaned up the raw sewage from the bike path along Blazing Star Boulevard. The sewage came from a backup at the Eau Claire River Lift Station. The city says 500 gallons of sewage seeped out onto the trail Monday. Crews spent the day yesterday power-washing the area and shoveling gravel away. Eau Claire says the pipe that backed up has been replaced.
The blue emergency phones at UW-Eau Claire are going away. The school this week said they are removing the iconic blue telephone poles and phones that allowed students to call the police. UW-Eau Claire Police say no one really uses them. Officers say they've seen only three legitimate emergency calls from the phones since 2015. Instead, officers say, students use their cell phones. UW-Eau Claire's Brian Drollinger says cell phones are faster and more reliable. The university says crews will remove the blue phones over the summer.
Wisconsin's latest Drug Take Back Day took back a lot of drugs. The state's Department of Justice yesterday said this month's Take Back Day netted over 55 thousand pounds of unwanted prescription medicine. That's the most ever, in any state in the United States. Wisconsin's attorney general said taking that much-unwanted medication off the streets simply makes the state a safer place. Since Drug Take Back Day began in 2010, Wisconsin has taken back more than a million-pounds of medication. That puts Wisconsin third in the nation behind only Texas and California. Wisconsin's next Drug Take Back Day is scheduled for October.
Wisconsin is looking to private money managers to help jumpstart startups and entrepreneurs in the state. Governor Evers today will announce a plan to dedicate 100 million-dollars to the new Wisconsin Investment Fund. The idea is to allow private sector money managers to handle the money, and find a way to use it to benefit new companies and new projects here in the state.
The Minnesota Historical Society has decided to return a historic artifact to the Prairie Island Indian Community. The organization announced yesterday that it intends to return the "Mankato Hanging Rope" to the community. The rope was reportedly used during the hanging of more than three dozen Native Americans following the end of the U.S. Dakota War of 1862. The historical society will file a notice of their intent to return the rope and will give it back to the tribe next month if there are no other claims.
A new Secretary for Wisconsin's prisons. Governor Tony Evers has named Jason Hoy to succeed Kevin Carr at the Department of Corrections. Carr retired in March. He was among Evers' first appointees at the start of his first term in 2019. Hoy has served as the department’s deputy director since 2021. He joined the Department in 2007 and has previous corrections experience in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
A new court challenge was heard yesterday over Wisconsin's law limiting collective bargaining. The law was passed in 2011 and bans collective bargaining by public employees, including teachers. An earlier challenge was rejected by the State Supreme Court. But, if this case moves forward, it could be heard by the now liberal-leaning Supreme Court. Today's arguments are on a motion by the Wisconsin legislature to dismiss the new challenge to the restrictions.
Minnesota Governor Walz signed new legislation yesterday for rideshare drivers in the state. The measure is a compromise between lawmakers and rideshare companies Uber and Lyft after hours of talks at the capitol. Drivers will now make a minimum of one dollar and 28 cents per mile and 31 cents a minute.
WisDOT is cracking down on wholesale vehicle dealers at two Beaver Dam locations. Seven dealers have had their licenses revoked for allegedly breaking state law. The department says each dealer failed to maintain a security bond, which ensures consumers can file a claim if the dealer does anything illegal. In the past few years, Wisconsin has seen an uptick in the number of wholesale dealer licenses and consumer complaints resulting in investigations.
The US Forest Service is reopening parts of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest five years after they were damaged by a storm. W X P R reports the Forest Service has cleared out the debris caused by the 2019 storm. 100 mile per hour straight line winds knocked over 130-thousand acres worth of forest and blocked over 100 miles of roads. Tree trunks were piled 15 feet high in some places, waiting for crews to remove them. The reopening includes the Jones Spring area, a popular tourist and camping spot.
A second recall effort against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos takes another step forward. Recall organizers turned in more than 9000 signatures to the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Tuesday and indicated confidence they have the necessary 6850 valid names to trigger a recall against the Assembly speaker. Now that their signatures have been submitted, Vos has until June 7 to file a challenge. If he takes the full window to do that, recall organizers would then have until June 12 to file a rebuttal, with Vos’ response due two days later. The elections commission would then have until late June to rule on the sufficiency of the recall petitions. Barring a legal challenge, that timeline would put a recall primary in early August, and recall election in early September.
The Minnesota Department Of Veterans Affairs is looking for Vietnam veterans who would be willing to be interviewed for an upcoming event. The agency is holding the event next month to mark the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War. Veterans and family members would share their stories on video to be preserved and archived. The three-day anniversary event will be held at Mall of America beginning June 13th.
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