News 07.15.16
15 July 2016 News
The Green Lake County Sheriff is sending a reminder to citizens: officers are out not only looking for speed violators on the road, but also those involved with illegal drugs. Sheriff Mark Podoll says recently, methamphetamine has become a larger problem in the area and looking to keep drugs and drug dealers off the streets is a main objective. Podoll says the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office and City Police agencies are part of a grant funded speed task force. He says that while they are looking for speeders, they are also looking for individuals using drugs and transporting drugs. The Sheriff’s Office has added two drug dogs and one Drug Recognition Expert Deputy to the current enforcement effort, called “Summer Heat”. This effort runs through the end of August.
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The Waupun Fire Department receives three grants that will be used to purchase equipment for the department and smoke detectors. Fire Chief B. J. DeMaa says the first grant is through the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation and will be used to replace three Automated External Defibrillators (AED’s). The second grant came from the Walmart Community Grant Program. DeMaa says that will be used to purchase 48 smoke and CO detectors which will be given out to people who need them. The last grant came from the Firefighter Support Foundation and will allow the department to purchase a fire extinguisher training system. All together, the grants total nearly $13,000.
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The Fond du Lac city council is expected to consider an ordinance at a future meeting that would allow dogs in city parks on a trial basis. The council discussed the issue at their meeting Wednesday night. A handful of residents with the group Fond du Lac Dogs in Parks spoke in favor. The initiator of the proposed ordinance, councilmember Brian Kolstad, says there would be regulations that would require dogs be on leash, must be kept on a path, or trail and not near any playground equipment. Kolstad says he finds it interesting that dogs are allowed in Central Park in New York city and that they offer off-leash hours. He says having an ordinance on the books would make it more enforceable for police to cite someone who is not in compliance. Council president Lee Ann Lorrigan and council vice president Karen Merkel both expressed concerns, but said they were willing to listen and to have the ordinance come before the council for a vote. The Advisory Park Board voted 4-3 last month to recommend not allowing dogs in any city park with the exception of the two existing dog parks.
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Gov. Scott Walker’s approval rating remains below 40 percent. A Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday shows Walker’s approval at 38 percent, nearly unchanged from 39 percent in June. It was at 43 percent in March just before Wisconsin’s presidential primary. Walker’s approval rating first fell below 40 percent nearly a year ago, just before he dropped out of the Republican race for president. Walker has largely remained out of the national spotlight since then, but he is scheduled to speak next week at the Republican national convention. The Marquette Law School Poll was conducted Thursday through Sunday, sampling 801 registered Wisconsin voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 points.
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Presumptive presidential nominees Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton remain deeply unpopular in Wisconsin. A Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday shows that 63 percent of registered voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. Clinton’s unfavorable rating is only slightly better at 58 percent — unchanged from last month. Trump’s unfavorable rating last month was 64 percent. The new poll shows Clinton leading Trump by 6 points among registered voters and 4 points among likely voters. That’s tightened since last month when Clinton led by 7 points among registered voters and 9 points among likely voters. The poll was conducted by phone July 7 through Sunday, sampling 801 registered Wisconsin voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
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A Green Bay woman is sentenced in federal court to nine years in prison for a drunken driving crash that killed a passenger and injured another. Twenty-eight-year-old Ashley Kitchenakow earlier pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and reckless endangerment in a crash on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Neopit last August. Investigators say Kitchenakow lost control of the vehicle and hit a tree. Judge William Griesbach also sentenced Kitchenakow this week to five years of supervised release following her prison sentence. Kitchenakow has previous convictions for driving drunk, underage drinking and operating after suspension.
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