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On Friday, March 6th the Baron County Sheriff’s Department was contacted by the Washburn County Sheriff’s Department regarding a possible theft case occurring at the Sheriff’s Department. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department assigned a detective to this case and over the course of that investigation took 35 year old Brian Wyberg into custody and he is being held in the Barron County Jail on charges of Theft, Illegally Possesses Prescription Drugs and Misconduct in Public Office. Washburn County Sheriff Dennis

City Council members still don’t know what to do with “Walmart House” in Eau Claire.  The council postponed a vote to decide what to do with the building on Gateway Drive Tuesday night.  Kwik Trip recently bought the building and plans to rezone the land to build a gas station and car wash.  The council says they’re waiting for the zoning code to be approved before coming to a decision.  PHOTO CREDIT WEAU 13 NEWS

Clean, long-term energy use is an important issue for the Menomonie School Board.  Board members discussed policies for clean energy use over the next 30-years at Monday night’s meeting.  Last month, Western Organizer for Wisconsin Conservation Voters Kate Beaton presented a goal for local governments to commit to 100-percent clean energy use by 2050.  Board member Jim Swanson is drafting a policy to properly plan for the goal and board members will review it at the next meeting on March 23. 

There is at least one more day in court for Colten Treu. Yesterday’s sentencing hearing focused on the families of the three Girl Scouts he killed back in 2018. The judge heard hours of victim impact statements. Treu is facing over 175 years in prison for admitting that he ran the girls down back in November of 2018 while he was high. Treu’s sentencing hearing could wrap-up today.

There is still no price tag for what taxpayers in Eau Claire will pay for the baseball stadium at Carson Park. The city council last night approved an agreement to add bleachers at the historic park and help renovate the restrooms. The Carson Park Capital Campaign Renovation Committee had been trying to raise three million-dollars for the project. They were about 700 thousand-dollars short at last count.

Wisconsin’s governor wants lawmakers to do something about flooding that is expected to hit the state this spring. But lawmakers are done for the year. Governor Tony Evers yesterday asked lawmakers to consider a package of new laws that would boost flood spending in Wisconsin and make sure the state covers half the cost of repairing flood damaged roads and bridges. Forecasters expect major flooding in many parts of the state this spring. But the proposals are too late. The State Assembly

Taxpayers in southeast Wisconsin will stop paying for Miller Park at the end of the month. The Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District yesterday voted to end the point-one-percent sales tax in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington and Racine counties on March 31st. Taxpayers have been paying for the stadium since 1996. The tax has taken more than 600-million-dollars from taxpayers since then. Stadium district chairman Don Smiley says the vote to officially end the tax is making good on a nearly 25-year-old promise.

President Trump is coming back to Wisconsin. The president’s campaign yesterday said the president will be in Milwaukee for a rally next Thursday. The rally is to launch the Catholics for Trump initiative. The rally will be at the Wisconsin Center.

There is a second confirmed case of coronavirus in Dane County and the third in the state.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced this morning that the patient is in isolation.  Officials with Public Health Madison and Dane County says they are in the process of contacting those people who may have been in contact with the patient.  The patient did not travel outside of the United States and is quarantined at home.