No one was injured in a fire in a workshop at W2181 Mike Varenick Road in Nelson Township on Thursday night. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, a passing motorist reported the fire and when firefighters arrived the workshop was fully engulfed. Firefighters were able to prevent the fire from spreading. The workshop was a total loss and the cause of that fire is still under investigation.
Preliminary enrollment numbers for the Durand-Arkansaw School District are expected to be lower this year. District Superintendent Ryan Nelson says it wasn't a big surprise. The official 3rd Friday of the month count should be released in the coming weeks.
Durand Firefighters celebrated the arrival of the new ladder truck yesterday at the fire hall. The department held a "push in" ceremony to officially dedicate and put into service the new truck. The department also recently received a donation from We Energies, Blacks Valley Ag, and CHS for some new thermal imaging cameras. The cameras have been ordered and should be in service in the coming weeks.
Motorists in Menomonie may experience delays starting tomorrow as Bongey Drive between 24 Avenue West and 28th Avenue West will be resurfaced. The milling and paving project will reduce Bongey Drive down to one lane and no parking will be in effect for the street. The project is expected to be done by October 4th.
Former UW-La Crosse chancellor Joe Gow says he may sue if the University of Wisconsin fires him for making porn videos. Joe Gow told reporters he may sue to try and keep his job as a professor. Gow had a hearing before UW regents on Friday, but said it did not go well. He says not a single regent asked him a single question. UW-La Crosse fired him as chancellor last year when his porn movies came to light. They are trying to fire him from his teaching job. Gow continues to argue he has a First Amendment right to make porn movies with his wife. The university's lawyer on Friday told regents that 'Dr. Joe has got to go.'
Police in Rice Lake say last week's backfiring car caused a 'panic' at the local middle school football game. Officers rushed all over town last Thursday because of reports of gunshots. One of those reports came from Rice Lake Middle School, where there was a football game at the time. Officers say coaches dove on players, while parents rushed other kids off the field. No one was hurt, and there never was a gun. Police eventually found two men who were driving the car that backfired. They're now looking at disorderly conduct charges.
A pair of high schoolers from Eau Claire are headed to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Memorial High School 's Micah Zwiefelhofer and North High School's Max Westom made the cut to play with the Great American Band. The Great American Band is made up of single players from schools across the country. Micah and Max are the only two from Eau Claire who made it this year. The two said they've been playing for years, but the parade will be the first time they get to play together. The two will also travel out to New York City together. You'll be able to see them on Thanksgiving Day when the parade marches through New York and live on TV.
Environmental groups in Wisconsin are worried about Microsoft's new data center in southeast Wisconsin. The Sierra Club and about a dozen others wrote a letter to Microsoft last week saying the plan to use methane gas powered power plants to feed the data center's energy needs is a step backwards. The letter says using gas to power the data center will push their goal of reducing the state's carbon footprint out of reach. The environmental groups want Microsoft to instead use solar or wind power to meet their needs. Microsoft is working in the center, and hopes to open it sometime next year
Wisconsin is looking at another AI project. The state's economic development arm, the WEDC, is putting together a concept paper for a new manufacturing AI effort. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is driving the project. WEDC boss Missy Hughes says if Wisconsin is chosen, it could mean tens of millions of dollars in investment into the state. UW-Milwaukee, Rockwell, Milwaukee Tool, and Husco International are all involved in the project as well. There's no word as to just when the NIST will make its decision, or when Wisconsin will learn if it makes the cut.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide whether the state Elections Commission administrator is lawfully appointed. Meagan Wolfe's term expired last summer, but a vote for her re-appointment is deadlocked. The WEC says she should keep the job until they take a new vote. The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted to remove her. A Dane County judge ruled Wolfe is lawfully in the position. Now the state Supreme Court will decide.
An 18-year-old from India is being held on a half-million-dollar cash bond in Dodge County after trying to scam a resident out of more than 80-thousand-dollars. The Dodge County Sheriff's Office says Laxit Devendra Patel is facing conspiracy charges to commit money laundering and to commit theft by false representation. The Sheriff's Office used an undercover officer after someone saying they're with the Federal Trade Commission called a 61-year-old Lowell resident and said they need to withdraw all of their money because their bank accounts and social security number had been compromised. The undercover officer transferred the money to Patel and then the Sheriff's Office arrested the suspect.
Nine staff members at a prison are recovering after they were exposed to a synthetic drug in Stillwater. The incident happened yesterday at the Minnesota Correctional Facility. The staffers were treated and released after they felt lightheaded and queasy with increased heart rates. It all reportedly started when a staffer responded to a report of an incarcerated man smoking an unknown substance in his cell. In a separate instance, another inmate threw a container of an unknown substance that landed near three staffers, who then began feeling ill.
Tony Evers thinks the UW System’s new viewpoint neutral policy is confusing. At UW Madison this week, the governor was asked about the policy requiring leaders to maintain viewpoint neutrality whenever referencing any political or social controversy. Evers said the policy “would have a chilling effect” on him if he were on the UW faculty. Under the new policy, Universities of WIsconsin leaders can issue public statements only on matters that directly affect operations and their core mission. It applies to positions from president down to department chairs.
New figures show 14-thousand-400 jobs were added in Minnesota last month. The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development reports that's the largest monthly increase since July of 2022. With a national unemployment rate of four-point-two percent, Minnesota's unemployment rate stands at three-point-three percent.
Wisconsin is one of the top ten financially healthy states in the U.S. A new report by Market-Watch Guides looked at average salaries, retirement savings, and disposable incomes by state. Wisconsin was ranked the sixth most financially healthy, with Pennsylvania and Ohio topping the list.
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