3/11/22 Hometown Broadcasting News Friday
11 March 2022 News
Date Announced For Smuckers Plant Closing In Ripon
The J.M. Smucker Company is permanently closing its plant in Ripon. The company notified the state’s Department of Workforce Development and Ripon Mayor Ted Grant with a letter dated February 22nd. The company says it will permanently close the plant at 1050 Stanton Street on December 30th. The closure will affect 93 employees who are not represented by a union, which means they can’t bump employees at other Smucker’s facilities with less seniority. Company officials last December announced that the plant would be closing a decision they said was difficult to reach.
2022030801.pdf (wisconsin.gov)
Forestry Services Agreement
Ripon’s Common Council this week approved a service agreement for $24,245 with Bluestem Forestry Consulting to do a tree inventory and forestry management plan. Last year the city received a DNR Stewardship Grant which is a 50/50 grant. The project was planned for and included in this year’s budget. City Administrator Adam Sonntag says the driving factor for the grant was what happened in the wake of last July’s storms which required the disposal of a number of damaged trees. The inventory would be for trees in the right-of-way of city streets and the city parks. Once complete the plan would be submitted to the DNR. It would allow the city to track trees that need replacement, for example trees damaged by the Emerald Ash borer.
Sex Offender Moving To Oshkosh
A 65-year-old sex offender is moving to 679 Franklin Street in Oshkosh Saturday. Jeffrey Johnson was convicted in Winnebago County in September of 1994 of 2 counts of first degree sexual assault of child. His victims were 6 and 7 year old girls. In 1984 he was convicted of fourth degree sexual assault for sexually assaulting a 3 year old boy. Another count of fourth degree sexual assault was read into the record and dismissed for sexually assaulting a vulnerable adult. He will be on GPS monitoring. Johnson is currently living in Fremont, Wisconsin.
Reeseville Deputies
Through a contract with the Village of Reeseville the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has been providing police services to the village since the beginning of the year. The primary deputies assigned to the village are Deputy Michael Matoushek and Deputy Martin Keberlein. Deputy Matoushek has 19 years of experience with the Sheriff’s Department and Deputy Keberlein 3 years, but Keberlein also had experience as a police officer with a smaller community. Sheriff Dale Schmidt says both deputies are excellent at developing relationships and helping through problem-oriented and community policing.
Quit Smoking
A radiation oncologist with SSM Health Cancer Care Center in Fond du Lac encourages those who smoke to try and quit. Dr. Filip Triocki says there are many benefits for those who quit improved health, taste and smell, and a longer life expectancy being among them. He says smoking is one of the leading causes of preventable death. He points out it isn’t easy to quit and many people need multiple tries before they have success. Help may be available through your primary physician. There is also the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line 800-QUIT-NOW, that’s 800-784-8669. Smoking can cause cancer, heart disease, lung disease, COPD and many others. Wednesday was National Quit Smoking Day.
Rosendale Brandon Schools Referendum
If a $29.7 million renovation and building addition referendum for the Rosendale-Brandon School District is successful next month the Laconia High School would be getting a little larger. The district would relocate middle school students to the high school and 6th through 12th grades would be housed there. District Superintendent Wayne Weber says high school students would be moved to a new wing and there would be an additional gym. Weber says middle school and high school students would share some of the same areas including a renovated agricultural and technical area but not at the same time. Renovations would also be done at Rosendale Intermediate and Brandon Elementary Schools to house 4k through 5th grade students.
Border Crisis
Congressman Glenn Grothman had planned another visit this weekend to our southern borders to find out more about the illegal immigrant problem. The federal lawmaker from Glenbeulah says he’s well aware that the nation’s focus is on the Ukraine now, but one of the reasons Russia invaded it is because of the weak way we handle the problem on our own borders. He says the cartels use illegal immigrants to carry drugs such as fentanyl across the border which is why we’ve seen such a dramatic increase in overdose deaths in this country. Grothman says every month we have 90,000 to 100,000 people crossing those borders and 8,000 people dying of illegal drug overdoses.
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