The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on the yearning liquor licenses for area establishments, discussion and possible action on the liquor licenses and a zoning request from David Reiland to rezone the property at 620 7th Ave West from general business to multi-family residential and reports from the mayor and city department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall and will be live-streamed on the WRDN website on the video streaming Page.
The city of Mondovi is looking at replacing the snow fence on the retaining wall on North Eau Claire Street. During last night's council meeting, members discussed three possible fence types from a wooden rail fence to a metal type of rail fence. Mayor Weiss directed staff to explore the three possible options for the next council meeting and he would like to have that new fence installed by the end of July.
The manhunt continues for a Madison attempted homicide suspect who police thought was in Eau Claire. Police in Eau Claire tried to pull 37-year-old Jerome Jacobs over yesterday, but officers say he sped away, crashed his car, and then ran. Jacobs is wanted in connection to a drive-by shooting in Madison Sunday that sent two people to the hospital. He's also wanted on a warrant from the state's Department of Corrections. Both police in Eau Claire and Madison say Jacobs is no longer in Eau Claire. They are asking the public for help in finding him.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Trenton Township on Tuesday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 53yr old Michael Sandager of Bay City was southbound on Hwy 35 when he struck a deer. Sandager was taken to Mayo Hospital in Red Wing.
One Person was injured in a single-vehicle accident in El Paso Township on Monday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 52yr old Sean Hall of Ellsworth was traveling eastbound on Hwy G when he lost control and struck a guardrail. Hall was taken to River Falls Area Hospital.
A western Wisconsin firefighter is getting some online attention after going into a well to rescue a dog. It happened in Menomonie on Monday. The Menomonie Fire Department shared some pictures of the firefighter who rescued Rip the dog. Rip fell into a 30-foot-deep dry well, and couldn't get out. A few trucks and some ropes later, firefighters were able to get rip out and send him back to his family.
Eau Clair's city council has signed off on the plan to renovate the Regency. The city council last night approved a zoning change for the Regency. It had been zoned for apartments, and now it will be rezoned as a motel. The Regency's new owners say they have a plan to renovate the motel and make it the kind of place people actually want to stay. The Regency, of course, has had a long and troubled history, including a couple of attempts to simply tear it down.
A cookie dough recall is affecting Minnesota as well as Wisconsin. The FDA says more than 29-thousand cases of the dessert treat were sold to Costco and Panera. The dough, sold by Rise Baking Company and South Coast Baking, came under several different labels. They include Costco's Chocolate Chunk Frozen Cookie Dough, Panera Chocolate Chipper Cookie Dough Pucks, and Rise Baking Jumbo Chocolate Chunk Dough Pucks.
The Mayo Clinic has reopened a mental health treatment facility in Rochester. The John E. Herman Home and Treatment Facility was closed in 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The residential mental health home is licensed to serve up to 16 patients, but currently only has the space for eight adults. The voluntary care provided at the home is designed to help adults return to the community and live independently.
Wisconsin's supreme court has suspended one of the lawyers charged as part of the Trump electors case. The court's new liberal majority yesterday suspended attorney Jim Troupis from Wisconsin's Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee. Troupis was first appointed to the committee in 2020, he's due to serve a second term until 2026. Wisconsin's attorney general charged Troupis last week with fraud for offering legal advice to the Republicans who signed-on as alternate Trump electors after the 2020 election. The court did not comment on Troupis' suspension.
Democratic Governor Tony Evers has called for an independent audit of Milwaukee Public Schools. Evers on Monday said the investigations would be separate from a currently overdue accounting audit and would look at operations and practices inside the district. M P S has been struggling with budget cuts, accounting issues, and the departure of its Superintendent last week. Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu called the announcement disappointing and said Evers is trying to cover up mistakes he made as the State Superintendent of Schools before he was elected governor in 2018.
The Wisconsin tourism industry is celebrating another record-breaking year. The Wisconsin Department of Tourism says the state brought in 25-billion dollars in economic impact in 2023. This is the second year in a row the record has been broken - in 2022 about 23-point-seven billion dollars was brought in. The state saw the highest number of overnight visits ever in 2023.
A woman is under arrest in Monona for speeding, and officers say she told them she was trying to show her passengers just how fast her car could go. Police Chief Brian Chaney says the car was going faster than a hundred miles per hour near Monona Drive. Officers pursued the driver, who stopped just before a tire deflation device was deployed. Two passengers in the car were also detained, and a third passenger was released from the scene.
Madison is ranked the second safest major city in America for pedestrians. The National Complete Streets Coalition’s Dangerous by Design 2024 report put Madison behind Provo and Orem, Utah as the most pedestrian-friendly among 101 metro areas across the country. A release from the city pointing out the report, which compares pedestrian fatality statistics, had Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway stating that “…efforts to make Madison the safest city to walk, bike, and drive will not stop until we reach zero deaths on our city streets.” Memphis, Tennessee was listed as the worst city in the nation for pedestrian safety, while Milwaukee ranked 19th best in the nation.
A man who pleaded guilty to carrying out a deadly shooting in the Mall of America in Bloomington is going to prison. Lavon Longstreet was sentenced yesterday to 30-and-a-half years behind bars. He pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting intentional second-degree murder. The crime happened in December 2022 inside the mall's Nordstrom store. The victim was 19-year-old Johntae Hudson. The defendant's accomplice, TaeShawn Adams-Wright, was sentenced late last month to more than 30 years.
There is a search for the owners of some wandering Peacocks in western Wisconsin. The sheriff in Dunn County took to Facebook yesterday to ask about the peacocks that were spotted wandering near Boyceville. The two birds were last spotted on someone's back porch. The sheriff says they are looking for the birds' humans, and are asking anyone who knows anything to please reach-out.
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