News 04.28.17
28 April 2017 News
Following a successful referendum last fall, Waupun School officials have announced a series of groundbreaking events on building projects starting next month. Superintendent Tanya Gubin says the first project will be a new athletic complex at the junior-senior high school. Gubin says groundbreaking for the athletic complex will be held on Wednesday May 3rd at the Waupun Junior-Senior High School. Groundbreaking will be held Monday May 15th at Meadow View Primary School and Thursday May 25th at the SAGES school in Fox Lake. Waupun School District residents approved the $36 million referendum last fall.
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Law enforcement say stolen credit or debit cards have been used at Wal-Mart stores throughout northeast Wisconsin. Investigators believe the credit card information was stolen with a credit card skimmer and used at Wal-Marts in several area communities including Fond du lac, Oshkosh and Sheboygan. The cards were used between March 18th and March 21st, before they were deactivated. They were used at self-checkouts and usually to buy a Wal-Mart gift card or increase the balance on a gift card. The gift cards were then spent in Florida, Illinois, and North Carolina. Investigators think there are other people involved to withdraw funds in those states.
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The state Department of Justice, federal authorities and police are urging people to get rid of unwanted medications this weekend. The DOJ, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and local police departments have set up a drug take back day on Saturday. People can bring unwanted prescription and over-the-counter drugs to collection points around the state. A map of collection sites is available at www.doseofrealitywi.gov/find-a-take-back-location . The effort is designed to combat misuse and abuse of prescription painkillers and other drugs. All unwanted medications turned in at collection sites must be generated by a household rather than businesses. The sites won’t accept needles, bio-hazardous materials, personal care products such as shampoo or illegal drugs such as marijuana or methamphetamine. A number of law enforcement agencies across Wisconsin offer drug disposal boxes year-round.
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Gov. Scott Walker says he hopes President Donald Trump’s aggressive negotiating style will get Canadian officials to delay policy changes that will evaporate the demand for Wisconsin milk producers. Walker says Trump’s retaliatory move to impose tariffs on Canadian lumber was aggressive but appreciated. Dozens of Wisconsin dairy farmers lost a market for their milk after Canada announced plans to change its dairy pricing policy to favor domestic milk. Trump has also floated pulling out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a sweeping free trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico. Walker says that threat would bring him to the negotiating table if he was a Canadian official and that Trump’s aggressive approach has clearly worked for him in the past.
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A top psychologist at Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison was fired for allegedly ignoring the requests of dozens of inmates who asked for help. Records show Dr. D. Jeremy John was accused in December of not following up with 26 youth inmates at the Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake prison facility. John appealed the firing by the Department of Corrections and the two sides agreed last week to characterize it as a resignation. John worked with the agency since 1999 and became Lincoln Hill’s psychology program internship director in 2015. He’s the second director to lose the job in the past two years. John said in documents appealing his firing that the duties of the job were “impossible to complete.”
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A judge in southern Wisconsin will hear from attorneys for three women who are challenging the state’s ban on selling homemade bakery to the public. Wisconsin and New Jersey are the only states that ban the sale of home-baked cookies, muffins and other items to the public. Lisa Kivirist, Kriss Marion and Dela Ends will take their fight against the ban to a judge in Lafayette County. Wisconsin requires those who want to sell bakery made in home kitchens to get a license, which requires renting or building a commercial kitchen, submitting to inspections and paying numerous fees. A bill in the Wisconsin Senate would allow the sale of homemade baked goods. Similar bills have passed the Senate, but have died in the Assembly because of opposition from Speaker Robin Vos, who says the bill would hurt commercial enterprises.
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