The City of Durand finally received all the necessary state permits for the Tarrant Park Pool. Currently, crews are working on installing the main under drains for the pool and the pool walls along with the construction of the walls for the bathhouse. Currently, the project is 8-9 weeks behind schedule due to the delays in getting the state permits and rain delays. Crews are expected to work as late into fall as they can weather permitting.
Pepin County has a new 4-H program educator. Sky Holt began her duties with Pepin County in July during the fair and will be spending 50% of her time working on 4-H programs and the other 50% on Youth Development Programs. Holt came from St. Croix County where she was the 4-H Program Educator. She has a past history working in the area when she helped implement the Buffalo-Pepin County Teen Court Program.
Eau Claire is not waiting to deal with the so-called forever chemicals in its water. The city yesterday broke ground on a new plant that is designed to remove PFAS chemicals from the city's water supply. The 20 million-dollar facility comes a year-and-a-half after the city closed about half of its wells because of high PFAS levels. There's no direct link between PFAS and health risks, but there are growing worries about the chemicals. Constriction is expected to take about a year-and-a-half.
A 16-year-old is looking at charges after a string of car break-ins and stolen cars in Lake Hallie. Police there yesterday said they arrested the teen this week. Lake Hallie Police say someone stole a half-dozen cars, and broke into several others. Investigators say the teenage suspect confessed to some of the crimes. Lake Hallie's police chief says almost all of the cars that were broken into or stolen were unlocked.
A man is dead after a motorcycle wreck in Chippewa Falls earlier this week. Chippewa Falls Police say the wreck happened Tuesday near the new Kwik Trip on Chippewa Crossing Boulevard. Officers say it looks like the 31-year-old man was speeding and hit a light pole. Police aren't saying if alcohol played a role in the crash. The investigation is on-going.
There aren't many answers about a small plane crash in Chetek on Wednesday. Police say the plane went down at the Municipal Airport on Wednesday. The pilot was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Eau Claire because of his injuries. Police are identifying the pilot as 34-year-old Travis Turner of Cameron, Wisconsin. Both local and federal investigators say they are looking into the crash.
Land continues to get more valuable in Wisconsin. The state's Department of Revenue released its latest Equalized Values Report. It shows the total value of all the land in the state is sitting at 907 billion-dollars, an increase of 75 billion from last year. Residential land continues to be the most valuable, worth just over 667 billion, followed by Wisconsin's commercial properties. However, farmland and forest land saw the biggest jumps in their value. Both went up 11 percent last year. Oconto County saw the largest increase in land values at 16 percent, followed by Lafayette and Pepin both at 14 percent.
Zumbrota could have a new public pool by 2026 if the community comes together to raise money for the construction. Voters this week approved a referendum to replace the city's pool. The project will get three-million dollars in funding from the city, but supporters will need to raise another one-point-three million before construction can start. The city anticipates breaking ground next year if the money is raised in time.
Nine Minnesota clinics are starting to receive free insulin from drug manufacturer Eli Lilly under an agreement negotiated by the state's attorney general. The Attorney General's Office sued the drug maker in 2018 over the price Minnesotans were paying for insulin. A settlement with Eli Lilly reduced the price of insulin to 35-dollars per month and required the company to supply free insulin to 15 clinics statewide. Six clinics in the Twin Cities are now receiving free insulin, and the rest is going to clinics in Red Wing, Cook and Duluth.
Some of the hundreds of thousands of people who are expected to come to Green Bay for next spring's NFL Draft could be sleeping in a camper at EAA. EAA yesterday said they are looking to open-up their facility to draft-goers. Managers say they have one thousand spots available for campers. Dick Knapinski says Detroit used a number of campgrounds when it hosted the draft in April of this year, and he said there's no reason to think Green Bay can't do the same. There are still some details to be worked-out, like amenities and such. But EAA says there will be campsite reservations for the draft between April 19th and the 29th.
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There is a push from national Democrats to keep the Green Party off the ballot in Wisconsin. A member of the Democratic National Committee filed a complaint yesterday with the Wisconsin Elections Commission that claims the Green Party cannot nominate a slate of electors, and therefore cannot run Jill Stein as their candidate. Wisconsin law requires an elected official to be a part of any presidential elector slate, and the Green Party doesn't have any of those. The Wisconsin Elections Commission kept the Green Party off the ballot in 2020 because of a paperwork issue. The Green Party did make the ballot in 2016, and Democrats say the party kept Hillary Clinton from winning the state that year.
Wisconsin's employment rates are at a record high for the third month in a row. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says seasonally adjusted unemployment was at three-percent last month, one-point-three percent less than the national rate. The state's labor participation rate remained the same at 65-point-five percent.
A texting-based program designed to help young Wisconsinites quit vaping is expanding. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says it'll now allow people aged 18-through-26 to use the Live Vape Free Program. This age group will benefit from two weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy if they medically qualify. The department says this therapy doubles the chances of quitting entirely. The texting program is still available for teens aged 13 to 17.
There are hate crime charges for a Madison man who police say threatened some UW sorority sisters. Dane County prosecutors say 20-year-old Lukas Nowak burst into a classroom last November, threatened to kill at least one young woman, and made some racial remarks. He is also accused of making threats and racial comments at the Domain Apartments a couple of days earlier. Investigators say they found an AR-15 rifle in the car Nowak was riding around in. He told investigators that he was angry at Asian people because he was being sent to China, and that Chinese spies are all around.
The southeast Minnesota biotechnology company United Therapeutics plans to invest 100-million dollars into a research farm in Stewartville. The Maryland-based business is known for engineering organs for the first-ever pig-to-human heart and kidney transplants. They plan to expand their research at a site ten miles south of downtown Rochester. All pigs will be born and harvested inside the tightly controlled facility, which is equipped with biosecurity measures regulating every aspect of their lives. United hopes that human studies could start as early as next year.
A historic document in Wisconsin sports is up for auction. It’s the Green Bay Packers NFL Membership Certificate from circa 1923. Heritage Auctions says the certificate first emerged over a decade ago from the estate of early NFL president Joe Carr. A slightly scaled-down color reproduction is on display at the Packers Hall of Fame. The original certificate is described as 13-and-a-half by 16 inches in size with some age-toning but no tearing, creasing or chipping common to similar collectible documents. Bids are expected to exceed $50,000.
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