News 06.22.16
22 June 2016 News
City of Ripon officials are reminding citizens with pets to either get their cats and dogs licensed or renew their current ones. City Administrator Lori Rich says the yearly deadline is April 1st, but many people do not comply with the ordinance. Rich says a lot of time is spent trying to track down individuals who have licenses but either forget or don’t bother to renew them. Currently the city clerk estimates that 60 percent of dogs and 30 percent of cats in the city are licensed. Not having those pets licensed is a city ordinance violation.
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One person is seriously injured following a one vehicle accident in Dodge County. The accident happened Monday afternoon on Welsh Road under the Highway 26 bridge in the Town of Emmet. Investigation shows the vehicle was traveling south on Welsh Road, entered a curve in the roadway and slid into a bridge pillar. The driver and lone occupant of the vehicle was flown from the scene to Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee. No other information has been released. The accident remains under investigation.
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A Fond du Lac man accused of sexually assaulting a babysitter is bound over for trial. Forty one year old Jose Veliz has waived his preliminary hearing in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court on charges of repeated sexual assault of a child, child enticement and intimidation of a victim. He is accused of sexually assaulting the child starting in 2013 when she was 11 years old. According to a criminal complaint, Veliz threatened to hurt her, her mother, or the child she babysat if she told anyone about the assault. Veliz is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $50,000 cash bond.
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Wisconsin officials plan to spend $5 million to help homeless veterans find housing by covering security deposits, first month’s rent and utility bills. The Department of Administration and the Department of Veterans Affairs plan to pull the money from low-income energy assistance funding. Those dollars are used to help the poor pay their energy bills, but a mild winter resulting in lower than average heating costs have left money in the account. The two agencies plan to work through DVA’s outreach program and county veterans service offices to identify potential applicants and determine their eligibility. The agencies have dubbed the project the Welcome Home Veterans Initiative.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker still owes more than $807,000 in campaign debt from his failed presidential bid that ended nine months ago. His latest campaign report filed Monday with the Federal Elections Commission shows Walker owes $807,675. That is down about $91,000 from the previous month. His debt stood at $1.2 million at the end of 2015. Walker ended his 71-day campaign for president in September, after averaging spending $90,000 a day on the effort. He’s been slowly paying off his campaign debts since. Walker’s latest filing shows he raised about $127,000 in May. Walker has deflected any talk of him being a choice for disgruntled Republicans upset with presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump. Walker has endorsed Trump, but was wavering in his support in recent weeks.
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The state Department of Natural Resources pulls back a plan for monitoring shoreline changes that called for surveyors to take pictures of shoreline properties. The plan called for two people to circle in a small boat and take pictures of the shoreline. The protocol advises surveyors not to photograph people and respect residents’ concerns. Katie Hein, the DNR’s lake monitoring lead, says the plan was meant to give lake associations looking to learn more about their lakes a process for gathering data. The DNR put the plan up for public comment on May 31 but pulled it back after a week. Hein declined to say why. DNR spokesman Jim Dick cited unspecified concerns about the plans. He didn’t respond to any asking him to elaborate.
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