News 05.16.17
16 May 2017 News
Two separate fires destroy a garage in the town of Ripon and damage the kitchen of a home near Mt. Calvary. Firefighters were called to a residence Sunday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. on County Road E in the town of Ripon. A fire started in a burn barrel and spread to a nearby garage, destroying the garage. The fire also caused exterior damage to a nearby residence and barn. Nobody was injured. A Mount Calvary firefighter was treated and released from the hospital for injuries sustained in fighting a fire that destroyed the kitchen at the Mark and Susan Steffes home on South Shore Lane. That fire was reported around 3:20 Sunday afternoon. A faulty electrical cord on the stove is apparently to blame. Neither fire is considered suspicious.
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Henning’s Cheese located in Kiel announces it is voluntarily recalling a limited amount of its Colby Jack cheese due to a temporary pasteurizer malfunction. The company says due to the malfunction, verification of proper pasteurization is not possible. No illnesses have been reported and no other Henning’s Cheese products are affected by this recall. About 1,000 pounds of product were distributed statewide. Consumers should only be concerned with Colby Jack cheese sold on or after April 10th in one and two pound blocks. The product will contain a date code of 1007 on a small label on the bottom of the cheese block. Consumers can return the cheese for a full refund.
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An Appleton woman is arrested for her fourth OWI. The Winnebago County Sheriff notified the Wisconsin State Patrol Saturday evening about a driving complaint on Highway 41 Northbound from Oshkosh. A trooper located the vehicle and noticed the driver, 54-year-old Dawn Marie Gotschika, was impaired. The trooper conducted a traffic stop, which resulted in Gotschika being arrested.
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Republican legislators want to sell a 120-year-old prison in northeastern Wisconsin and open a new facility. Rep. Dave Steffen and Sen. Frank Lasee have introduced a bill that calls for selling the Green Bay Correctional Institution and building a new prison in Brown County or an adjacent county. It would be privately owned but the state would lease and run it. Steffen and Lasee wrote in a memo seeking co-sponsors that the prison is over capacity and needs extensive maintenance work. Decommissioning the current prison also would free up land for re-development. The bill doesn’t lay out a selling price or allocate any money for leasing a new prison. A public hearing on the measure is set for today.
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Unusual seasonal weather variations have made it tough on alfalfa crops in some parts of Wisconsin. A warmer-than-usual winter and a cold wet spring have caused a significant portion of the alfalfa crop to fail in Manitowoc County. University of Wisconsin Extension agriculture specialist Scott Gunderson says at least 10,000 of the 18,000 acres of alfalfa have failed in the county. February temperatures climbed into the 60s, encouraging the alfalfa to grow, then dropped down to the 20s causing harmful sheets of ice to form on the plantings. Dairy farmers may struggle to find feed for their cows in the months ahead and will likely spend more to buy forage for their herds.
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Wisconsin Department of Justice officials say about 60 of 6,000 untested sexual assault evidence kits have been analyzed so far. The kits are sitting for a variety of reasons, including prosecutors deciding cases were too weak to pursue, cases were resolved without testing or victims refused to cooperate. Victim advocates have pushed for testing all the kits to establish profiles that could help identify serial offenders. The DOJ is working to secure victim permission before conducting tests. DOJ spokesman Johnny Koremenos said Monday that 3,800 kits have been designated for testing. The state crime lab has tested 13 kits. DOJ has sent another 800 to a private lab; 50 have been tested there so far. Koremenos says the testing process is complex and can take as long as six months.
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