News 04.27.16
27 April 2016 News
Four Wisconsin companies, including one from Dodge County, are exhibiting at a German technology show this week. Officials with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, Gov. Scott Walker’s job-creation agency, say the companies are appearing at the Hanover Messe trade show in Hanover. The companies include Hustisford-based Pivot Point Inc., a fastener maker; Hartford-based American Exchanger Services Inc., which makes heat transfer equipment; Mequon-based Eagle Technology Inc., which produces software for manufacturers; and Milwaukee-based engineering firm Phoenix Dynamometer Systems LLC. The companies are using U.S. Small Business Administration grants to attend the show. WEDC also has an exhibit. The show includes more than 6,000 exhibitors from 62 counties and is set to run through Friday. More than 200,000 people are expected to attend.
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Fond du Lac County Treasurer Julie Hundertmark is not running for re-election. County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says Hundertmark has filed a declaration of non-candidacy. Hundertmark was appointed to the position in 2010 by the county board. She was elected to her first full term in 2012. Town of Taycheeda Clerk and county board supervisor Brenda Schneider is the only announced candidate for the position. The filing deadline is June first. Meanwhile nobody has taken out nomination papers for the Register of Deeds position. The incumbent, Shawn Kelly, was appointed to the post by Governor Scott Walker in 2012 following the death of Register of Deeds Patricia Kraus.
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A jury finds an Oshkosh man guilty of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide in the September murder of his girlfriend at the couple’s apartment. According to online court records in Winnebago County Circuit Court, the jury in the Samson Gomoll trial came back with a verdict Tuesday morning. The trial began on Monday and went to the jury Tuesday morning. Police said Gomoll, 31, shot and killed 42-year old Stacey Strange, at an apartment on West 10th Avenue in Oshkosh on Sept. 20. A manhunt for Gomoll ensued, and he was arrested about 11 hours later. Investigators say Strange suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Gomoll’s sentencing hearing is set for July 22nd.
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Oshkosh Police say a baby is placed in protective custody after the child was located in a hotel room containing a meth lab. On Monday morning around 10 a.m., Oshkosh police responded to a hotel in the 1500 block of W. South Park Ave. to find a man who had a warrant for his arrest. After the 27-year-old man was taken into custody, a search of his hotel room turned up a meth lab. Police say a 26-year-old female and 10-month-old baby was in the room as well. The man is being held on preliminary charges of Possession of Meth with Intent to Deliver, Possession of Meth Waste, and 2nd Degree Recklessly Endangering Safety. A hazardous materials crew from Chicago was called to the scene to clean up chemicals in the hotel room. Police say there is no threat to the safety of the public.
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Wisconsin schools will be required to provide CPR training in every health course between seventh grade and 12th grade under a bill Gov. Scott Walker signed Tuesday. Under current law, all public, charter and private schools must offer high school students instruction in CPR and external defibrillators. The Republican bill requires all schools to offer that training in any health class from grades seven through 12. According to the American Heart Association, 26 states require CPR training to graduate. Walker says the legislation gives students the training they need to offer aid and potentially save lives. He signed the bill Tuesday afternoon at Wausau West High School.
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Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant is now slated to close by March 2017, ending nearly 100 years as a part of the city. Parent company Kraft Heinz Food Co. announced the impending closure in November, along with the closure of six other plants, as part of a plan to save $1.5 billion in costs. According to a notice from Kraft Heinz to Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development released Tuesday, the closure will occur in phases beginning at the end of June and continuing through the first quarter of 2017. The notice says about 46 salaried employees and about 515 hourly union employees will lose their jobs. In November, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin said another 300 corporate workers would be offered jobs at the Chicago headquarters.
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