News 04.03.17
4 April 2017 News
Authorities have identified the victim of a fatal a one vehicle rollover crash in Fond du lac County Sunday. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says 21 year old Whitney Domer of Oshkosh was pronounced dead at the scene on Highway 26 north of Willow Creek Road in the town of Waupun. She was a passenger in a car driven by 18 year old Jonathan Vogel of Milwaukee. The Sheriff’s Office says Vogel was northbound on 26 when the vehicle traveled onto the gravel shoulder, overturned in a ditch and caught on fire. The crash remains under investigation.
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The embattled Mayville police chief has resigned under the cloud of a criminal investigation. After meeting in closed session Thursday night the Mayville city council voted unanimously to accept the resignation of suspended police chief Chris MacNeill. The vote comes after a letter was sent by Mayor Rob Boelk, alleging that MacNeill may have altered police records. Mayor Boelk requested the state Attorney General’s office to bring a charge of felony misconduct in office against MacNeill. So far, no charges have been filed.
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Wisconsin farmers are planning to seed less corn this year but more soybeans. It’s a trend playing out in many states, with a surplus of corn in storage in the U.S. The Agriculture Department says in its prospective plantings report that it expects Wisconsin farmers to seed 4 million acres of corn, down 50,000 acres from last year. Soybean acres in the state are expected to hit a record, up 190,000 acres to 2.2 million. Wisconsin farmers are expected to plant 210,000 acres of oats this year, unchanged from 2016.
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Any doubts that key parts of Gov. Scott Walker’s budget face big hurdles with fellow Republicans have been erased after three days of hearings on the spending plan. Republicans were clear before the ink was even dry on Walker’s budget that they had major issues, particularly on how to address a projected $1 billion shortfall for roads. But their dislike for Walker’s plan to plug that and other hallmarks of his budget came into sharper focus during last week’s marathon agency hearings. And now the public gets a chance to weigh in. The first of six public hearings is Monday in Platteville. How much of Walker’s plan survives the legislative overhaul will also be a test of his political strength midway through his second term.
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Old and new technologies are merging in rural Wisconsin, as U.S. Cellular is using draft horses to help install cellphone equipment. The horses that pulled plows for farmers in the olden days are being used to haul equipment up steep wooded hillsides, where trucks have gotten stuck in the mud and all-terrain vehicles haven’t been up to the job. The horses pull the high-tech gear, which weighs nearly a ton with all the pieces included, with a wooden wagon. The equipment is needed to upgrade mobile phone service in sparsely-populated areas. The big draft horses, owned by Medford dairy farmer and logger Jason Julian, are usually used for logging, dragging timber out of the woods where a truck or tractor would make a mess.
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