News 10.17.17
17 October 2017 News
Fond du Lac County is moving forward with plans to build a new highway garage. The county board this week will consider a resolution authorizing county officials to proceed with the design, bidding and construction of a new main Highway Garage complex near the intersection of Highway 151 and Hickory Road. County executive Al Buechel says the nearly 40 acre site would also incorporate parks, and senior services.
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Nobody is injured and a Fox Lake man is in custody following a high speed chase in Fond du Lac County. Shortly before 11:30pm Friday motorists reported a reckless driver on Interstate 41, nearly striking other vehicles in the southbound lanes near Townline Road. The suspect vehicle turned south onto Highway 151 and failed to stop for a sheriff’s deputy near Wonser Road. A chase ensued southbound on 151 with speeds close to 100 miles an hour. The 13 mile chase ended when the vehicle ran over stop sticks on 151. The suspect was taken into custody and faces charges of eluding, possession of drug paraphernalia, operating with a restricted controlled substance and multiple non-criminal citations. The suspect also had outstanding warrants for his arrest.
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An advocacy group and two state lawmakers are trying to legalize hemp production in Wisconsin, decades after it was outlawed. Democrat Rep. Dave Considine of Baraboo and Republican Rep. Jesse Kremer of Kewaskum are circulating bills to regulate industrial hemp in the state. Hemp has plastic and fiber components that can be used to make furniture, canvas, fabric and other paper products. Hempstead Project Heart campaign manager Marc Grignon says hempcrete — a form of concrete using hemp — could be used for insulation and add a new market for area farmers. Grignon says you can’t get high from smoking hemp because it has less than 1 percent of THC, the main psychoactive part of the cannabis plant.
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Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin’s 26 campuses are pressing regents to include their input on plans to merge two-year schools with four-year campuses. The UW System Student Representatives released a statement requesting more student inclusion in announcements like the merger plans. The statewide group is composed of student body presidents and vice presidents from each of the system’s campuses. The Board of Regents has proposed merging University of Wisconsin Colleges with four-year University of Wisconsin institutions. The student body vice president of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire says the merger announcement was a surprise, and the little information he’s received has left him with “more questions than answers.”
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A federal plan to let hunters shoot trumpeter swans has drawn fire from some of the people who worked to bring the majestic white birds back from the brink of extinction. Trumpeter swans have made a comeback thanks to efforts to reintroduce them. Now the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on a plan aimed at letting hunters shoot them in states that allow the hunting of tundra swans, a more numerous species. Officials say no state is proposing a hunting season for trumpeter swans. But they acknowledge the proposal opens up the possibility. Brad Bortner with the Fish and Wildlife Service says the plan is mostly designed to protect hunters in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, North Carolina and Virginia who mistake a trumpeter swan for a tundra swan.
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