The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. The agenda includes an update on the Mirror Lake Erosion and reports from the Mayor and City Department heads. The meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
The Pepin County Government Center will be closed tomorrow. The county is replacing the center's generator, and all offices inside will be closed. The new generator is expected to be installed and tested by the end of the day on Wednesday, and the center will be open for regular hours on Thursday.
An investigation is underway after an officer-involved shooting in Jackson County. Police say this all unfolded early yesterday morning when officers attempted to stop a vehicle in the Town of Hixton. The driver allegedly fled and a police chase ensued. The pursuit ended when the suspect's vehicle came to a stop along the 81-hundred block of Sand Prairie Road. Police say an officer shot the suspect during the encounter, who remains in critical condition.
Efforts are being made to stop cliff jumping at Mount Simon. Eau Claire City officials say several trees people use for rope swinging and cliff jumping have been cut down and many more are marked to be removed. A fence was also installed with a warning sign. Last September, someone was injured after falling off of a rope swing and hitting the rocks below the cliffs.
The City of Eau Claire has received a $1.68 million payment. It's the first installment as part of the class action settlement with 3M over PFAS contamination. It is the first of four class action settlements in cases filed by the city against manufacturers of PFAS. According to a release from the city on Monday, the total from the settlements of all four claims are expected to exceed $12 million. The city will be constructing a PFAS filtration facility aimed at removing remaining trace amounts of PFAS from the water supply and reactivating the affected wells. This facility is projected to be operational early 2026.
Governor Tony Evers is touring the state to highlight investments into Wisconsin's workforce. Evers visited Lippert Components in Eau Claire to learn how the company is using a 400 thousand dollar fast forward worker training grant from the DWD and Chippewa Valley Technical College to train workers in manufacturing. Evers says the state needs to invest in the workforce to meet the needs of a 21st century economy.
New numbers show a sharp increase in odometer fraud in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says almost six-thousand vehicles were sold with rolled-back odometers in 2024, resulting in more than 37-million dollars in fraud. That's about four-thousand vehicles more than 2023. The DOT says most fraud comes from wholesalers selling cars to retail sellers in the state, and title processing errors.
Advocates and elected leaders are calling for more childcare funding in the upcoming state budget out of yesterday's rally in Waunakee. This was part of the fourth annual National Day Without Child Care. During the pandemic, the Child Care Counts program gave providers extra funding to keep their doors open. That funding has now run out. Those in attendance at the rally are calling on Governor Tony Evers to put 480 million dollars in early childhood education with the next state budget.
Wisconsin filmmakers tell lawmakers that a tax incentive to make films in the state would have a positive cultural and economic impact. Hayden Mauk is an executive producer from Middleton and says film crews are an economic boom to the communities they film in because they shop locally and do their best to support those communities. Stacy Nash, a documentary filmmaker based in Milwaukee, says Wisconsin has the scenery and the talent to have a good film industry, but it needs to proper infrastructure to succeed. Under a proposed bill, companies could apply for a 30% credit equal to the costs of salary or wages of Wisconsin residents paid to produce a film.
Republican leaders on the Legislature’s budget panel say Democratic Governor Tony Evers plan to overhaul the state’s prison system needs work. Joint Finance Committee co-chair Representative Mark Born is pleased Evers wants to close the Green Bay prison, but said the plan is "half baked" and "needs a lot of work." Born and committee co-chair Senator Howard Marklein expect there will be more conversations with the governor's office. Under Evers’ plan, the maximum-security Green Bay Correctional Institution would eventually be shut down, and the hundreds of men housed there would be moved to other institutions. Evers also wants to convert changing the maximum-security Waupun Correctional Institution into a medium security prison that focuses on job training. In all, the $535 million reorganization would reduce the capacity of Wisconsin’s prison system by about 700 people.
Proposed legislation would let the Scouts recruit new members in Wisconsin schools. Lucia Cronin, President of the Milwaukee based Three Harbors Council of Scouting America, spelled out the issue to the Senate Education Committee. Cronin said while there are more than 760 schools in Wisconsin that still have a scouting program, but the inability to effectively recruit new members means those programs are dying. Tim Molepske with the Chippewa Valley Council described the same situation in northwest Wisconsin. He said the bill would simply allow Scouting to continue to invest in young people. Molepske said access has been an issue for about the last ten years, driven largely by legal concerns rather than objections by superintendents and principals. Governor Tony Evers vetoed similar legislation last session, citing concerns over local control and possible conflicts with federal law.
The body of a teenage boy was recovered from the Wisconsin River in Wausau Sunday evening. Police say they responded to the report of a possible drowning near a riverside dock. Witnesses at the scene said they saw the 16-year-old enter the river from the dock, but he never resurfaced. Crews found the teen around the area where he was last seen. He was taken to a hospital where he later died. Police say foul play is not a factor in the teen’s death as the incident remains under investigation.
Wisconsin is among the top ten states with the lowest property crime. That's according to a new study by property buying expert Eden Emerald Buyers Agent, which ranked Wisconsin fifth for the state with the lowest property crime. Idaho took the top spot, while New Mexico had the highest property crime in the country. The rankings were based on FBI crime data.
More than a dozen nurses at the same maternity center are pregnant in Green Bay. The HSHS St. Vincent Hospital's Women and Infants Center said that 14 nurses on their team are expecting. The medical center shared the news ahead of Mother's Day and during National Nurses Week, which ends Monday. A hospital spokesperson said that this is an incredible full circle moment for many of our nurses, some of which are about to become first time moms.
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