A Western Wisconsin man is dead after a motorcycle accident in Wabasha County on Friday. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, 43yr old Michael Kotlarz of Arcadia was traveling westbound on Hwy 60 when he lost control of the motorcycle, and collied with an eastbound vehicle driven by 65yr old Mark Evers of Theilman, MN. Kotlarz was killed in the accident while Evers was not injured.
City of Durand residents are reminded the new water rates will be added for the October Water Bill. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says two parts of the bill will be increasing. The water rate increase was approved by the Public Service Commission earlier this year.
The Isabelle Town Board is meeting tonight and the topic of a proposes operation ordinance large animal operations will be discussed. The town recently held a public hearing on the proposed ordinance which would require CAFO’s to receive a permit and address issues such as manure management, air pollution and road damage. The proposed ordinance is in respons to Ridge Breeze Dairy plans to expand to 6500 cows in the town of Maiden Rock. Currently no large animal operations are located in the town of Isabelle. That meeting is tonight at 6:30 at the Red Wing Airport Terminal Building.
One person is in custody after authorities responded to a burglary at Safe and Secure Firearms in the City of Blair on Friday morning. An employee reported hearing glass breaking in a back hallway and saw suspect 20yr old Christian Dahl exiting a window and fleeing. It is believed that Dahl stole three handguns, some ammunition, two knives, a “dummy” grenade and other items. All items suspected to have been stolen were recovered. Dahl was taken into custody and transported to the Trempealeau County Jail.
The Eau Claire Fire Department reports that three of their own -- injured at the scene of a Friday evening blaze -- are okay. Flames ignited around 5:30 p.m. at the David Drummond House, a State Street apartment building, and the property's roof eventually collapsed. No other injuries were reported and there has been no word on the cause of the fire. The building is listed on both the National Register and Local Register of Historic Places.
A new Wisconsin Department of Health Services grant program is rewarding the work done by local organizations. Four organizations are each receiving one-time grants of $250,000 to provide services in their communities that prevent non-medical use of opioids. Substance abuse prevention organizations in Dunn and Pierce counties, Kenosha County, the Forest County Potawatomi Community and Milwaukee's Hispanic community are receiving the funding. The DHS grants are funded by Wisconsin's share of an opioid settlement.
Teamsters at the University of Minnesota are ending a strike that put the upcoming Farm Aid concert in jeopardy. Teamsters Local 320 announced Saturday that a tentative deal has been reached after the university made a new settlement proposal. Details on the proposal are unclear. During the strike, Farm Aid organizers said their artists, production team and partners wouldn't cross the picket line. The annual festival founded by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp is scheduled for September 20th.
Wisconsin State Patrol is encouraging folks to make safe choices near train tracks. The department says that the Badger State is home to 33-hundred miles of active rail tracks and that -- because trains cannot make sudden stops -- drivers and pedestrians should be extra vigilant when approaching to prevent serious crashes. About a dozen people on average are hurt in train-related crashes every year in Wisconsin.
There is new information in the suspicious death of a Twin Cities woman found in a camper in southeastern Minnesota. Wabasha County authorities say the injuries to the body of 66-year-old Barbara McBride-Law include bruising around her neck and a cut inside her mouth. She was discovered by first responders on August 30th at Mac's Park Place in Mazeppa. A man who last saw McBride-Law was questioned, but no one has been arrested.
An official with the Tony Evers administration is leaving. The Democratic governor announces that Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes will resign the position effective September 19. Hughes joined the Evers administration in 2019 following confirmation by the state Senate. Prior to that she served as general counsel and chief mission officer at Wisconsin based dairy cooperative Organic Valley. A search for a successor is underway and Evers expects to announce that person in the coming weeks. WEDC is a public-private agency designed to assist business development and innovation through loans, grants, tax credits, and technical assistance programs.
Legislation that would require state employees return to in office work passes the state Assembly. Democrat Andrew Hysell of Sun Prairie represents a district with many state employees. He says remote work, which began during the Covid pandemic, has been good for state workers and taxpayers. The bill’s author, Pleasant Prairie Republican Amanda Nedweski, says it simply does what Democratic Governor Tony Evers should have required, and that the administration has failed to provide sufficient oversight of state employees who began to work remotely during the COVID pandemic. The measure will need to pass the state Senate before going to Evers, who would likely veto it. The chamber also passed legislation aimed at combating sextortion by providing a penalty for sharing representations depicting nudity, restricting the sorts of flags that would be allowed to be displayed at government buildings in Wisconsin, and exempting tobacco bars from the public smoking ban.
A strike at the University of Minnesota is putting the Farm Aid concert festival in jeopardy. Farm Aid organizers said their artists, production team, and partners won't cross the picket line. While they are looking at possibly moving locations, they could cancel the festival entirely. Farm Aid said in a statement the farm and labor movements are inseparable, and that the university must return to the bargaining table in good faith. The annual festival founded by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp is just over a week away.
A new study suggests that chronic insomnia in seniors is more than an annoyance. It can cause accelerated aging of the brain. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester studied more than 27-hundred people, with an average age of 70, for five-and-a-half-years. They found that 14-percent who suffered persistent sleeplessness developed mild cognitive impairment or dementia, compared to ten-percent who did not have insomnia. Executive functioning studies and brain biomarkers showed that sleep-deprived seniors aged an additional three-and-a-half-years.
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