News 05.03.18
3 May 2018 News
One person is seriously injured following a one vehicle accident in Fond du Lac County. The accident happened Tuesday just before 4:00pm on US Highway 45 and County Highway SS in the Town of Osceola, Investigation shows a vehicle traveling southbound on US Highway 45 was negotiating a curve. The vehicle traveled off the roadway into the west ditch where it struck a culvert embankment of a driveway. The vehicle became airborne and rolled multiple times coming to rest in the west ditch on its tires. The driver and lone occupant, 45-year-old Timothy Condon from Campbellsport, was flown to Theda Clark Regional Medical center in Neenah with serious injuries. He was not wearing a seatbelt. The crash remains under investigation.
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The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation into a fatal traffic crash on Highway 23 west of Fond du Lac Monday. Seventy one year old Joseph Mineau of Oakfield was killed when his car collided with a semi. Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says investigators want to know why Mineau drove into the path of the semi after stopping at a stop sign on Highway C. He says the intersection, when traveling south on Highway C, doesn’t meet at a 90 degree angle, so a driver has to look behind them when looking for westbound traffic. Waldschmidt says investigators are trying to determine if any medical conditions may have contributed to the crash.
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Gov. Scott Walker is directing state agriculture officials to develop regulations requiring captive deer farms to bolster fencing as chronic wasting disease continues to spread across Wisconsin. The order would require farmers to install a second fence, an electric fence or an impermeable physical barrier. The governor also announced that he has ordered agriculture officials to develop regulations banning the movement of live deer from deer farms in CWD-affected counties. He says he has ordered the state Department of Natural Resources to draw up regulations banning the movement of deer’s spinal cords and allowing whole carcass movement out of CWD-affected counties only if the deer is headed to a taxidermist or meat processor. The governor has taken criticism for a largely hands-off approach to CWD. Walker, who faces re-election in November, says it’s time to get more aggressive.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is narrowing areas of Wisconsin that will face tougher smog regulations. The agency Tuesday sided with Wisconsin officials by narrowing areas that will come under stricter federal ozone regulations to small strips of land along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Businesses and the Walker administration argued that metropolitan Milwaukee and areas along Lake Michigan were being polluted by smog from Illinois and northern Indiana. The EPA found that portions of Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, Door and Kenosha counties along the lake were in violation of a new tougher ozone standard. The EPA was under a court-ordered deadline of Monday to decide which counties across the country were in violation of the new standard and would need to reduce ozone levels.
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