Name Of Man Who Injured Three Children In Crash Released
9/29/15 – The name of the driver who injured three children in a single vehicle crash in Lomira on Sunday afternoon has been released. 30-year-old Tory Agnew of Milwaukee was traveling north on Interstate 41, near Highway 28, when his car entered the west side gravel shoulder, traveled across both lanes of traffic, hit an embankment that caused it to roll over, and came to rest on its wheels. Two of the three children in the car were ejected. A 6-month old and 3-year-old were flown to Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee by Flight for Life while a 1-year-old was taken to the hospital by EMS responders. Agnew went to the hospital with minor injuries and his passenger, 21-year-old Marshay Williams denied medical attention. Agnew was arrested for operating while intoxicated.
Name Of Teenage Pedestrian Killed By Truck In Lowell Released
9/29/15 – The name of the 17-year-old pedestrian who died Sunday after being hit by a pick-up truck has been released. According to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office, Lukas Jaeger of Juneau was walking on County Trunk “G” near Well Road when he was hit around 8:25 pm at an intersection near Lowell. 20-year-old Cody Buechel of Beaver Dam was driving north in his pick-up and struck Jaeger, who died at the scene.
Proposed Bill Would Bring Change To Food Share Program
9/29/15 – A bill will be introduced next month that would bring change to Wisconsin’s food share program. Beaver Dam Representative Mark Born is the chair of the Public Benefits Reform Committee and says his committee has been working on a bill that would place a photograph on each QWEST card, the debit card that program participants use to purchase approved food items. Born says the bill would shed light on how much implementing this idea would cost. Before the joint finance committee can give its final approval, Born says the federal government needs to sign off on the plan since it funds half of the program. Federal law currently restricts cashiers from stopping transactions where the picture on a QWEST card does not match the person making the purchase and only allows cashiers to verify QWEST cards if they do the same with all other credit and debit cards. While Born hopes those rules change, he feels the program could still bring instant benefits like aiding stores in reporting fraud to local authorities and reducing the number of card sales on the black market, since people might be hesitant to buy cards with another person’s picture. Born hopes to see a change in federal law, or waiver issued, that will allow cashiers to specifically check QWEST cards. Born says his committee also plans to introduce bills next month that limit the number of replacement cards a person can receive and suspend fraudulent recipients from the program for seven years after two offenses.
Dodge County Creating New Team To Handle Kidnappings
9/29/15 – The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has worked in the last few months on setting up a team that will respond if there is a kidnapping. The Child Abduction Response Team, or CART, is able to aid municipalities if a child goes missing or it can lead its own investigation. That’s according to Sheriff Dale Schmidt who says it is important to act on a kidnapping immediately since something usually happens to the child within the first three hours of being gone. CART will be led by Detective Vickie Brugger, who was part of a group of Dodge County employees that attended a training event this summer. Schmidt says the sheriff’s office, local police and fire departments, emergency response, human services, and the district attorney’s office are all typically represented on these teams. While CART is up and running, Schmidt hopes to have everyone’s role solidified by the end of the year. He says the team is just a precaution since child abductions are not common in Dodge County. According to Schmidt, the last one was roughly ten years ago.
Horicon To Consider Final TIF District Approval Tonight
9/29/15 – The Horicon City Council will hold a special meeting tonight to consider final approval of a new tax incremental financing district, also known as a ‘TIF District.’ Talks about the TIF started earlier this year when John Deere approached the city about its interest to grow. Mayor Steve Neitzel says the plant expansion could add between 75-100 new jobs. If approved, work on the TIF would start next month. This would be Horicon’s second active TIF and fifth overall.
Fall River Could Hold Annual Meeting On Two Separate Dates
9/29/15 – The Fall River School District’s Annual meeting may be held on two different dates this year. An ongoing audit, traditionally late DPI “state aid” figures and major administrative changes led District Superintendent Mike Garrow to a suggested change in the procedure. Due to an ongoing audit, accurate figures for the budget may not be available by Oct. 5th. School District residents at the October 5th meeting will be voting on the proposed budget or tabling the vote till October 26th when more accurate figures are available.
G.E. Planning On Moving Production From Wisconsin To Canada
9/29/15 – Workers at G-E Power and Water in Waukesha learned yesterday that the company is moving its gas engine production from Waukesha to Canada. General Electric said it plans to build a new $265,000,000, state-of-the-art factory in an as-yet-undisclosed location in Canada. The company currently employs 350 people at its manufacturing facility in Waukesha, building gas engines for compression, mechanical drive and power generation applications. Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly said in a statement that he is working to save the 350 jobs.
UW Milwaukee Set To Open New Research Center
9/29/15 – The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is set to officially open its new five-story, $80,000,000 research center. The Kenwood Interdisciplinary Research Complex is the first new academic building on the east side campus in more than 20 years. Faculty and students have already moved in, and the public will be welcomed inside Friday before the installation of Mark Mone as university chancellor. The new research center has a two-story atrium, and overlooks a green space that is the future home of the school’s welcome center and an entrepreneurship center. The university hopes it will compete for bigger national science grants with the new research center.
