Hometown Broadcasting News Wednesday 1/22/20
22 January 2020 News
Fatal Snowmobile Accident In Calumet County
DNR officials say a 65-year-old Chilton man was killed after losing control of his snowmobile in Calumet County’s Town of Chilton Monday night. Robert Hoerth lost control of his sled while crossing Highway 151 on a trail near Harlow Road. He was thrown from the snowmobile. The accident was reported about 10:50 pm. The crash west of Chilton happened during International Snowmobile Safety Week. Last year the state’s Department of Natural Resources recorded 16 fatal snowmobile accidents.
Suspicious Package Found In Sheboygan
Sheboygan Police got a report of a suspicious package being left outside the Social Security Administration building in the 1100 block of North 26th Street Tuesday morning. As a precautionary measure a safety perimeter was set up around the building and the Milwaukee Bomb Squad was called. Some adjacent roads were also closed, but the bomb squad assessed the package and determined it was not dangerous. Police say the package was suspicious in nature and placement.
State Senator Mark Miller Will Not Seek Reelection
After 22 years in the State Legislature, State Senator Mark Miller has decided not to run for reelection in November. The Democratic Senator from Monona began in the State Assembly in 1999 and has been in the Senate since 2005. Miller says he will miss it, but it is time for someone new to do the job. He’s held a number of leadership positions including serving as both minority and majority leader, as Finance Co-chair, and chair of the Democratic Caucus.
Deer Harvest Totals Down In 2019
Hunters in Wisconsin harvested nearly 50,000 fewer deer in all of the deer seasons in the state last year compared to 2018. DNR officials presented a report to the Natural Resources Board Tuesday that shows hunters killed 288,025 during all of the seasons including archery, the nine-day gun deer hunt and a youth hunt. In 2018 hunters took 335,243 deer. DNR officials claimed a late start and poor weather during the nine-day gun-deer hunt resulted in 23.5 percent fewer deer being harvested. Deer license sales were also down from 2018 with nearly 12,000 fewer licenses sold last year.
Census Workers Needed
The U.S. Census is looking for part-time workers and will be holding two recruiting events in Oshkosh over the coming days. The first is tomorrow from 9 am to Noon at the Oshkosh Area Food Pantry and another is scheduled Saturday at the Sunnyview Expo Center from 9 am to 3 pm. Census takers are paid $17 to $24 an hour. Applicants have to be at least 18-years-old. Applications are available online at the 2020census.gov website.
Legislation Would Require Drinking Water Testing At Schools
After getting some protections for homeowners from lead in our drinking water last session, State Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac and State Senator Bob Cowles of Green Bay are trying to do the same for schools and daycare centers. Last session the two got some funding to help homeowners remove lead laterals going to their homes. Thiesfeldt says the ingestion of certain levels of lead can cause developmental problems in children so they want to remove it from water where there are higher concentrations of children. “It’s designed to require schools and child care facilities to go through testing of their drinking water sources and make sure that they don’t have dangerous levels of lead in their drinking water and if they do they either need to shut them down and make some changes.” Thiesfeldt says they would like to match federal standards or be below them without breaking the bank here in Wisconsin. He hopes the legislation will be approved before the end of the current session.
Flu Cases Up
Flu cases are running about three times higher this season than they were at this time last year. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says it’s not too late to get a flu shot and we haven’t seen the peak of the flu season yet. “If you didn’t get your flu vaccine we still recommend getting. We do feel that the season is going to be long lasting and we are just at the beginning points of it with all the high numbers of cases that we are seeing.” She says it may not provide full immunity, but does provide you some protection and helps to protect loved ones you care for. Mueller says flu vaccine is available at the Health Department in Fond du Lac, through your health care provider, some pharmacies, and other places as well.
Grothman Hopes New Trade Deal With China Bodes Well For Farmers
Congressman Glenn Grothman is hoping a new trade agreement with China will help out farmers. He says farmers have had a couple of tough years especially with the prices they are receiving for milk. “Milk prices bounced back a little, but overall it’s been such a tough two or three years for American farmers. Really the only way with the law of supply and demand to deal with it is to have more markets so you can sell more of this cheese, sell more of this milk.” The new trade agreement commits China to purchase an additional $200 billion in U.S. goods over the next two years. They will also be required to reduce a number of agricultural barriers.
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