USDA is investing nearly $750,000 to expand distance learning across Northwest Wisconsin. The Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant was awarded to CESA 10 in Chippewa Falls. The investment directly supports educational access for 14,445 rural students and 1,914 educators across 12 counties, including Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, and Trempealeau. Through CESA 10’s distance learning consortium, the Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant will upgrade aging distance-learning infrastructure to bridge educational gaps. Modernizing these systems enables participating districts to address local teacher shortages and offer expanded curriculum, including advanced placement, post-secondary, career and technical education, and college-preparatory coursework.
The Pepin County Government Center and Highway Shop will be closed to the public on Monday for employee training. Police will also be on site for training activities. Both the Government Center and Highway Shop will reopen on Tuesday.
The Buffalo-Pepin Literacy Alliance is looking for volunteer members. Volunteers meet once a month, help shape the future of the Alliance Programs, and help promote the program to the community. Call 715-533-3843 for more information.
The Durand Public Library will host a foot care workshop tomorrow at 10am. The workshop will feature a registered nurse specializing in medical and diabetic foot and nail care to support healthy feet and mobility. The event is free and open to the public.
Prison time a Chippewa Falls man who prosecutors say exposed himself to a child. Investigators say that Zachary Flum exposed himself multiple times to a nine-year-old female victim inside an Eau Claire home, asking her if he could touch her and asking her to touch him. Flum pleaded guilty to charges of child enticement and has been sentenced to five years in prison.
A suspect is in custody following a Tuesday afternoon attack on a woman in Tomah. Police say the victim was beaten with a hammer at a residence on Green Acres Avenue. There has been no word on the condition of the victim. The incident remains under investigation.
Students in the La Crosse Public Schools district can expect classes to begin sooner in the 2027-2028 academic year. The school board voted to move the start date from September 1st to August 19th. Among the benefits, as the board sees it, is that the school calendar would be able to include a longer spring break and a late May end to the school year. State officials must still approve the change.
Wisconsin health officials are encouraging residents to get vaccinated as respiratory virus season begins. The Department of Health Services says it's already seeing early signs of increased flu activity across the state. Dr. Ryan Westergaard says flu vaccination rates have fallen sharply in recent years, with just under 34 percent of Wisconsin residents getting a flu shot last year, compared to about 50 percent before the pandemic. Health officials are also reminding families that vaccines and other preventive treatments are available to help protect infants and older adults from RSV, which can cause serious illness.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. Francis Halzen was honored for his understanding of the astrophysical particles known as neutrinos, which are produced by the universe's most energetic events. He was named the recipient of the award at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden. Halzen is the sixth physicist tied to UW-Madison to receive the Nobel Prize. The award also marks the 23rd Nobel Prize overall connected to UW-Madison.
Another mishap at a pipeline reroute project in northern Wisconsin. Canadian energy company Enbridge announced that workers on the Line 5 project breached an aquifer near the Marengo River in Bayfield County. The breach, first reported by Northern News Now, occurred last week during installation of a new stretch of the pipeline. An attorney representing the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa said the breach represents another danger to the tribe's watershed. The breach in Bayfield County follows several mishaps on Enbridge’s project to build 41 miles of new pipeline around the Bad River Reservation, including an August 25 leak that released over 1.3 million gallons of natural gas liquids into the air.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide if municipalities can regulate short term rentals. A rental property group sued the Village of Summit in 2019 over the village's attempt to regulate how often short term rentals could be rented and for how long. The rental company cited a state regulation which prohibits local zoning ordinances from restricting short term rentals. The village says its ordinance is not zoning, but a police power. Both Waukesha County courts and the Appeals court sided with the property owners. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for Thursday.
Wisconsin’s dairy industry continues to do well in export markets, according to Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection Secretary Randy Romanski. He says dairy exports are up about 56% during a period of uncertainty in the markets. Romanski says Wisconsin just moved into the top ten states in the exports of ag, food and forestry products. He credits the Wisconsin Initiative on Ag Exports, initiated by Governor Tony Evers in his first term, with helping Wisconsin producers find export markets.
Immigration was at topic at this years World Dairy Expo. House Agriculture Committee Chair, Glen GT Thompson, discussed farm labor with the American Dairy Coalition. Thompson says he talked with only one dairy farm family that had labor figured out. Recently, ICE conducted immigration raids on Kansas Livestock Processors, arresting some approved by the E-Verification Program. Thompson says he doesn’t agree with all of the actions ICE is being directed to do. Some of those arrested used fake documents to be approved by the E-Verify system.
A Lake Minnetonka property has set a state record after selling for 18-and-a-quarter-million-dollars. The gated Deephaven property includes a roughly ten-thousand-square-foot home on nearly two-and-a-half acres with 350 feet of shoreline. The home was originally listed for 22-million-dollars last fall. This comes as luxury properties around Lake Minnetonka command higher prices. Deephaven and Excelsior have recorded three sales above five-million-dollars, and 16 sales between two-million-and-five-million-dollars this year. Another Lake Minnetonka compound is currently listed at 50-million-dollars.
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