Winter Weather Hits Again
12/14/09 - A mix of snow and rain this morning has caused a number of schools to delay the start of classes for 2-hours. Though many roads are clear of snow from last weeks storm roads are extremely slick as crews attempt to deal with “black” ice. The National Weather Service says it’s all due to a low-pressure system moving from the Plains to lower Lake Michigan today. Once it moves east, it’s supposed to get cold again. It might get down to 10-below tonight in northwest Wisconsin, and the single digits elsewhere. Parts of the north could see 20-below again tomorrow night. It’s supposed to get a few degrees warmer starting Wednesday. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for our listening area until 10am.
2-Vehicle Crash Sends 3 People to Hospital
12/14/09 - Three people were injured in a two-car crash on Highway 26 in the Town of Emmet last night. Authorities say 44-year-old Joseph Beerbohm was drunk when his car struck a vehicle driven by 52-year-old Phillip Navarro near Steve’s Bar at 6pm. . Beerbohm fled on foot from the scene but was located a short time later. Beerbohm, Navarro, and a passenger in Navarro’s vehicle were taken to the hospital. Beerbohm faces a number of charges including OWI Causing Injury. The stretch of Highway 26 where the accident took place was closed for 2-hours.
Man Faces Charges for Leaving the Scene of an Accident
12/14/09 - An 18-year-old man is facing charges after leaving the scene of an accident yesterday morning. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department reports a resident on Highway H in the town of Lomira reported a vehicle had hit a tree stump on his lawn and was still there. Officers were able to locate the driver, Alexander Pantel, at his residence in Lomira. He was taken by relatives to the hospital for a possible head injury. Authorities ticketed Pantel for failure to notify law enforcement of an accident and going too fast for conditions.
Senate Passes Big Spending Package
12/14/09 - Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold was one of only three Democrats to vote no when the U-S Senate approved a one-point-one trillion dollar federal spending package. In a rare Sunday meeting, the Senate voted 57-to-35 for massive spending increases on things like health, education, law enforcement, and veterans’ programs. The bill was sent to President Obama, and it combined six of the 12 annual appropriations’ packages for the budget year that began July first. Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl voted yes, and he then announced almost 15-million dollars in projects and new federal aid for the Badger State – plus another 11-million for national autism education projects. Kohl’s Wisconsin earmarks included transit upgrades, new health projects in La Crosse and Eau Claire, and military construction projects at Fort McCoy and Milwaukee’s Mitchell Airport. Republicans blasted such spending and cited five-thousand pork projects, from lawmakers of both parties, as examples of spending run amok. Feingold has been a critic of such earmarks in the past. Arizona Republican John McCain called them “shameful,” and he condemned his colleagues for approving them behind their constituents’ backs while many were watching football. But Democratic leaders said the spending was critical to help the battered economy. It also includes a two-percent pay raise for most federal employees. Obama has signed five of the 12 budget measures. A defense package is the only one remaining.
WI Residents Expected to See Jobless Benefits Check this Week
12/14/09 - Unemployed Wisconsinites have yet to see a dime of the extended jobless benefits President Obama approved six weeks ago. But that will change on Wednesday, when the first checks are expected to be mailed out. Chris Marschman of the state’s workforce development agency said it took awhile to re-program the state’s computers to reflect the new payments. And it’s not unusual to have delays of over 30 days, because of the large number of people getting benefits. Unemployment benefits traditionally run for 26 weeks. But they now last up to 99 weeks as the result of six extensions approved in the past year because of the recession. Executive assistant Andy Feldman says about 15-thousand Wisconsinites will get checks in the next two weeks – and claims will be paid retroactively from the approval of the latest extension. About a-thousand people a week will be added for awhile, and Feldman says people should keep filing claims to get their payments as soon as possible.
Questions About Deer Herd to be Answered this Week
12/14/09 - Wisconsin lawmakers will question wildlife experts this week about this year’s big reduction in the state’s deer harvest. The Senate Natural Resources Committee and the Assembly Fish-and-Wildlife panel will hold a joint hearing on Thursday. And they’ll ask D-N-R officials why hunters shot 29-percent fewer deer in last month’s gun season. About 195-thousand deer were taken in the nine-day season, the lowest in 27 years. Hunters blame an over-zealous deer management strategy by the D-N-R. Assembly committee member Louis Molepske of Stevens Point said he only saw one doe while hunting this season. And he’s heard from dozens of hunters in central Wisconsin who were concerned about the low number of antlerless deer. Kevin Grenzer of Tomahawk, who started a group called “Save Wisconsin’s Deer Hunt,” said he’d like to see antlerless hunting tags canceled in areas where the herd’s going down. The D-N-R’s Keith Warnke says his agency is looking at that option and others. Molepske says some hunters also want to see a reduction in crop damage permits – which allow farmers to shoot deer which hurt their crops.
12/14/09 - A mix of snow and rain this morning has caused a number of schools to delay the start of classes for 2-hours. Though many roads are clear of snow from last weeks storm roads are extremely slick as crews attempt to deal with “black” ice. The National Weather Service says it’s all due to a low-pressure system moving from the Plains to lower Lake Michigan today. Once it moves east, it’s supposed to get cold again. It might get down to 10-below tonight in northwest Wisconsin, and the single digits elsewhere. Parts of the north could see 20-below again tomorrow night. It’s supposed to get a few degrees warmer starting Wednesday. A Winter Weather Advisory is in effect for our listening area until 10am.
2-Vehicle Crash Sends 3 People to Hospital
12/14/09 - Three people were injured in a two-car crash on Highway 26 in the Town of Emmet last night. Authorities say 44-year-old Joseph Beerbohm was drunk when his car struck a vehicle driven by 52-year-old Phillip Navarro near Steve’s Bar at 6pm. . Beerbohm fled on foot from the scene but was located a short time later. Beerbohm, Navarro, and a passenger in Navarro’s vehicle were taken to the hospital. Beerbohm faces a number of charges including OWI Causing Injury. The stretch of Highway 26 where the accident took place was closed for 2-hours.
Man Faces Charges for Leaving the Scene of an Accident
12/14/09 - An 18-year-old man is facing charges after leaving the scene of an accident yesterday morning. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Department reports a resident on Highway H in the town of Lomira reported a vehicle had hit a tree stump on his lawn and was still there. Officers were able to locate the driver, Alexander Pantel, at his residence in Lomira. He was taken by relatives to the hospital for a possible head injury. Authorities ticketed Pantel for failure to notify law enforcement of an accident and going too fast for conditions.
Senate Passes Big Spending Package
12/14/09 - Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold was one of only three Democrats to vote no when the U-S Senate approved a one-point-one trillion dollar federal spending package. In a rare Sunday meeting, the Senate voted 57-to-35 for massive spending increases on things like health, education, law enforcement, and veterans’ programs. The bill was sent to President Obama, and it combined six of the 12 annual appropriations’ packages for the budget year that began July first. Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl voted yes, and he then announced almost 15-million dollars in projects and new federal aid for the Badger State – plus another 11-million for national autism education projects. Kohl’s Wisconsin earmarks included transit upgrades, new health projects in La Crosse and Eau Claire, and military construction projects at Fort McCoy and Milwaukee’s Mitchell Airport. Republicans blasted such spending and cited five-thousand pork projects, from lawmakers of both parties, as examples of spending run amok. Feingold has been a critic of such earmarks in the past. Arizona Republican John McCain called them “shameful,” and he condemned his colleagues for approving them behind their constituents’ backs while many were watching football. But Democratic leaders said the spending was critical to help the battered economy. It also includes a two-percent pay raise for most federal employees. Obama has signed five of the 12 budget measures. A defense package is the only one remaining.
WI Residents Expected to See Jobless Benefits Check this Week
12/14/09 - Unemployed Wisconsinites have yet to see a dime of the extended jobless benefits President Obama approved six weeks ago. But that will change on Wednesday, when the first checks are expected to be mailed out. Chris Marschman of the state’s workforce development agency said it took awhile to re-program the state’s computers to reflect the new payments. And it’s not unusual to have delays of over 30 days, because of the large number of people getting benefits. Unemployment benefits traditionally run for 26 weeks. But they now last up to 99 weeks as the result of six extensions approved in the past year because of the recession. Executive assistant Andy Feldman says about 15-thousand Wisconsinites will get checks in the next two weeks – and claims will be paid retroactively from the approval of the latest extension. About a-thousand people a week will be added for awhile, and Feldman says people should keep filing claims to get their payments as soon as possible.
Questions About Deer Herd to be Answered this Week
12/14/09 - Wisconsin lawmakers will question wildlife experts this week about this year’s big reduction in the state’s deer harvest. The Senate Natural Resources Committee and the Assembly Fish-and-Wildlife panel will hold a joint hearing on Thursday. And they’ll ask D-N-R officials why hunters shot 29-percent fewer deer in last month’s gun season. About 195-thousand deer were taken in the nine-day season, the lowest in 27 years. Hunters blame an over-zealous deer management strategy by the D-N-R. Assembly committee member Louis Molepske of Stevens Point said he only saw one doe while hunting this season. And he’s heard from dozens of hunters in central Wisconsin who were concerned about the low number of antlerless deer. Kevin Grenzer of Tomahawk, who started a group called “Save Wisconsin’s Deer Hunt,” said he’d like to see antlerless hunting tags canceled in areas where the herd’s going down. The D-N-R’s Keith Warnke says his agency is looking at that option and others. Molepske says some hunters also want to see a reduction in crop damage permits – which allow farmers to shoot deer which hurt their crops.
BD DPW Outlines Snow Plow Policy
12/14/09 - The city of Beaver Dam is employing a variety of different approaches when it comes to snow and ice removal but efforts to reduce overtime mean side streets will typically cleared during regular business hours. Director of Facilities David Stoiser says they employ three different strategies. One strategy concentrates on the city’s main roads during the heaviest part of the storm. Another strategy utilizes the entire team on all roadways with the city divided into nine sections. However, when it comes to side streets, Stoiser says the city is only plowing during “straight hours” or normal working hours for Public Works employees, to avoid paying overtime costs. A third strategy is employed specifically for ice treatment and the city is divided into four quadrants. Stoiser says the entire snow plow team can get the whole city cleared inside one 8-hour day, but during last week’s severe weather it took twice that amount of time. Snow plow operators got stuck on several occasions and one even got in a minor accident. In addition, Stoiser says they had to use snow chains for the first time since 1992.
Mannel: ‘Phone Scam Using BDFD’
12/14/09 - If you’ve gotten a phone call recently from an Illinois-based company raising money for the Beaver Dam Fire Department it may have been a scam. Fire Chief Alan Mannel says phone solicitations from Firehouse Promotions have not been authorized by his department. He encourages anyone who’s sent money to the company in Moline to ask for a refund, stop checks, or stop any credit card authorizations. The chief was contacted by a company representative on November 30 stating that the previous chief authorized Beaver Dam to receive 500 free, pre-printed fire prevention magnets. Mannel says he specifically asked if it would involve present or future solicitation and was assured it would not. In addition, the station never received the magnets. Beaver Dam only works with the National Fire Safety Council and Mannel says they will also accept donations directly for fire prevention materials. And he says he will be contacting the Attorney General’s offices in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Second Death in Farm Tractor - SUV Accident
12/14/09 - A second person died Friday from injuries sustained in a traffic accident involving an SUV and a farm vehicle earlier this month. 53-year-old Mark Hamann of Reeseville died at UW-Hospital in Madison, which is where he’d been since the December 3 accident. Authorities say 53-year-old Joel Cahoon was driving his Ford Explorer on Highway G in the Town of Lowell when he struck the farm tractor Hamann was operating. Cahoon was pronounced dead on the scene. Another occupant of the tractor, 31-year-old Thomas Hamann, is still hospitalized.
Acting Pewaukee Chief Tabbed for Columbus PD
12/14/09 - The acting Police Chief in Pewaukee has been offered a job as the top cop in Columbus. Daniel Meister must still pass background, medical and psychological tests before the hire becomes official. The Police Department has been headed by Acting Chief Dennis Weiner since March of 2008 when Chief Gerald Sallmann retired. Meister was selected late last week by a unanimous PFC vote from six finalists interviewed for the job.
Kennedy To Run Again
12/14/09 - Beaver Dam Mayor Tom Kennedy has announced that he is running for a second term in the spring 2010 election. As of Friday, five of the seven alderpersons up for re-election have also submitted paperwork indicating their intentions to seek another term. All even numbered wards are on the ballot. There are no challengers as of yet. Incumbents have until December 28 to file non-candidacy papers. Completed nomination packets with signatures for those planning on running are due January 5.
12/14/09 - The city of Beaver Dam is employing a variety of different approaches when it comes to snow and ice removal but efforts to reduce overtime mean side streets will typically cleared during regular business hours. Director of Facilities David Stoiser says they employ three different strategies. One strategy concentrates on the city’s main roads during the heaviest part of the storm. Another strategy utilizes the entire team on all roadways with the city divided into nine sections. However, when it comes to side streets, Stoiser says the city is only plowing during “straight hours” or normal working hours for Public Works employees, to avoid paying overtime costs. A third strategy is employed specifically for ice treatment and the city is divided into four quadrants. Stoiser says the entire snow plow team can get the whole city cleared inside one 8-hour day, but during last week’s severe weather it took twice that amount of time. Snow plow operators got stuck on several occasions and one even got in a minor accident. In addition, Stoiser says they had to use snow chains for the first time since 1992.
Mannel: ‘Phone Scam Using BDFD’
12/14/09 - If you’ve gotten a phone call recently from an Illinois-based company raising money for the Beaver Dam Fire Department it may have been a scam. Fire Chief Alan Mannel says phone solicitations from Firehouse Promotions have not been authorized by his department. He encourages anyone who’s sent money to the company in Moline to ask for a refund, stop checks, or stop any credit card authorizations. The chief was contacted by a company representative on November 30 stating that the previous chief authorized Beaver Dam to receive 500 free, pre-printed fire prevention magnets. Mannel says he specifically asked if it would involve present or future solicitation and was assured it would not. In addition, the station never received the magnets. Beaver Dam only works with the National Fire Safety Council and Mannel says they will also accept donations directly for fire prevention materials. And he says he will be contacting the Attorney General’s offices in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Second Death in Farm Tractor - SUV Accident
12/14/09 - A second person died Friday from injuries sustained in a traffic accident involving an SUV and a farm vehicle earlier this month. 53-year-old Mark Hamann of Reeseville died at UW-Hospital in Madison, which is where he’d been since the December 3 accident. Authorities say 53-year-old Joel Cahoon was driving his Ford Explorer on Highway G in the Town of Lowell when he struck the farm tractor Hamann was operating. Cahoon was pronounced dead on the scene. Another occupant of the tractor, 31-year-old Thomas Hamann, is still hospitalized.
Acting Pewaukee Chief Tabbed for Columbus PD
12/14/09 - The acting Police Chief in Pewaukee has been offered a job as the top cop in Columbus. Daniel Meister must still pass background, medical and psychological tests before the hire becomes official. The Police Department has been headed by Acting Chief Dennis Weiner since March of 2008 when Chief Gerald Sallmann retired. Meister was selected late last week by a unanimous PFC vote from six finalists interviewed for the job.
Kennedy To Run Again
12/14/09 - Beaver Dam Mayor Tom Kennedy has announced that he is running for a second term in the spring 2010 election. As of Friday, five of the seven alderpersons up for re-election have also submitted paperwork indicating their intentions to seek another term. All even numbered wards are on the ballot. There are no challengers as of yet. Incumbents have until December 28 to file non-candidacy papers. Completed nomination packets with signatures for those planning on running are due January 5.
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