News 04.08.16
8 April 2016 News
Developers say construction of a dairy operation that could eventually milk 9,000 goats a day should begin in a couple months in Calumet County. Drumlin Dairy is buying 35 acres in Brothertown, just northeast of Fond du Lac. One of Drumlin’s owners, Kenn Buelow, says Wisconsin has the country’s most milk goats, with 44,000, but more are needed to meet the needs of goat cheese makers. Drumlin’s operation near the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago is near the state’s largest cow dairy operation, owned by Milk Source. That company also milks about 700 goats. Brothertown has its own zoning laws, so Drumlin won’t need a conditional use permit.
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One person is killed and one injured following a two vehicle accident in Fond du Lac County. The accident happened Thursday morning around 7:30am on Highway 23, near Whispering Springs Boulevard, just east of Fond du Lac. Investigation shows the two vehicles collided due to slippery roads and poor visibility. Police say a 35-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. A 37-year-old Mt. Calvary man was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation say Highway 441 southbound/Highway 10 westbound is fully open to to traffic. It opened yesterday afternoon after the I-41 interchange was closed Thursday morning. Crews patched potholes but the patching didn’t harden. The DOT says the issue is weather-related. The DOT says at one point, delays were in excess of three miles.
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An outbreak of a bloodstream infection may be slowing in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says that no new cases of the bacteria known as Elizabethkingia have been reported in the state in the last week. DHS says the number of confirmed infections increased to 57 after one of two cases under investigation a week ago was confirmed. The other case is still under investigation. Eighteen people who have been diagnosed with the bloodstream infection have died in Wisconsin. State health officials say most are over 65 and have a serious underlying health condition. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been working with state officials to identify a source of the bacteria that began showing up in Wisconsin in November.
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The Department of Natural Resources is delaying plans to impose uniform rules on state-owned shooting ranges after push-back from the public The proposed regulations would prohibit alcohol on the ranges, ban automatic weapons and exploding targets and require shooters to unload their weapons when they’re off the firing line. The DNR’s board was set to vote on the rules April 13. DNR spokesman George Althoff says the agency has received multiple comments from people questioning the plan. He says one of the concerns was whether requiring unloaded weapons off the firing line conflicts with open and concealed carry laws. He says the DNR will gather more input and bring the rules back later this year.
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Five UW Schools in Wisconsin are a step closer to having non-resident and graduate tuitions raised. Republican lawmakers had frozen resident undergraduates tuition through the 2016-17 academic year, but regents have the ability to raise out-of-state and graduate tuition. UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Platteville, UW-Stout and UW-Whitewater have asked the regents for permission to raise their nonresident and graduate tuition ranging from half-a-percent increase for master degrees in applied psychology and food services at UW-Stout to a nearly 18 percent increase for a master’s degree in computer science at UW-Platteville. The regents’ finance committee approved the proposal during a meeting Thursday at UW-Green Bay. The full Board of Regents is expected to take up the plan on Friday.
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