News 05.23.18
23 May 2018 News
A fish kill on Lake Winnebago caused by a probable outbreak of VHS appears to be coming to an end. DNR Fisheries supervisor, Kendall Kamke, says the outbreak is ending as the water temperature warms up.Thousands of fish have washed up on shore, depending on the wind direction. Kamke says the die-off, which is primarily affecting sheepshead or freshwater drum, is not expected to have a significant effect on the Winnebago fishery.
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Fond du lac County will intervene in an effort to prevent two violent child sex offenders from Racine County from being placed in a town of Eldorado residence. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says two Racine County judges have ordered the chapter 980 sex offenders to be placed here. Toney says Fond du lac County believes a new state law requiring sex offenders be placed in their home county applies in this case. Last week a Marinette County judge rescinded his original order to place a violent sex offender in Fond du lac County.
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A Wisconsin Marine killed in World War II will be buried over Memorial Day weekend. Twenty-six-year-old Sgt. Elden Grimm of Menasha was killed during a Battle in the Pacific Ocean nearly 75 years ago. Grimm will be buried with full military honors in Neenah on May 26th. Grimm was among about 1,000 Marines and sailors killed trying to secure a small island in November 1943. His remains eventually were buried with the remains of other unknown U.S. service members from the battle at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu. In October 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began exhuming those remains. Scientists used dental records to help identify Grimm’s remains last September.
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An electric utility company is asking for regulatory approval to construct a $196 million gas pipeline near the Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing complex in southeastern Wisconsin. We Energies filed documents last week with the Wisconsin Public Service Commission seeking approval for the nearly 50-mile pipeline. Company spokeswoman Amy Jahns says the pipeline was planned before the Foxconn project, but the company has accelerated its timeline. The utility says the pipeline will “increase the quantity and reliability of natural gas service.” There are two different routes proposed for the project, though both would start in La Grange and end just west of the Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant. The northern route would cost $196 million while the southern option would cost $187 million.
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