• WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016 • VOLUME 83 • NO. 27 • 2 SECTIONS
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Federal criteria delays Burnett projects Miss Maddie sports one of the cutest helmets at the Kids’ Pro Ice Racing Northern Nationals Championships. Siren was home of many snowmobile enthusiasts this past weekend since the 3rd-annual Celebrate Wisconsin Snowmobiling sports show, banquet and VIP ride were also held this past weekend. More photos on back page. - Photo by Becky Strabel
FIRST READ MADISON - In a rush of end-of-session lawmaking, the Wisconsin Assembly passed bills Tuesday, Feb. 15, to tighten laws for child car seats and drunken driving. The car seat bill passed the Assembly on a voice vote Tuesday and now goes to the Senate. AB400 would require children to ride in rear-facing car seats until they are 2 years old. Current state law requires children to ride in rear-facing seats if they are younger than 1 year or weigh less than 20 pounds. The bill’s authors, Rep. Amy Loudenbeck (R-Clinton), Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) and Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon), say that both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recommend keeping children in rear-facing seats until they’re 2. In other action, the Assembly passed on a voice vote AB352, which would require first-offense drunken drivers to appear in court before a judge in all cases. Currently, first-time offenders are required to make a court appearance in some parts of the state but not others. - from Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel ••• MADISON - Bipartisan legislation introduced by Wisconsin Sportsmen’s Caucus Co-Chairs Nick Milroy, D-South Range, and Joel Kleefisch, R-Oconomowoc, to allow gun deer hunters to wear blaze-pink hunting apparel was signed into law earlier this month. Milroy joined Gov. Scott Walker and others at a bill signing ceremony at the state Capitol in Madison. The bill, which passed both houses of the Legislature on bipartisan votes, will make Wisconsin the first state in the country to give hunters the option of wearing bright, fluorescent, blaze pink. Additionally, it was learned blaze pink is actually more difficult for deer to see than blaze orange.- with information from the office of Rep. Milroy ••• STATEWIDE - The Costco in Pleasant Prairie had the lowest gas price for regular unleaded on Tuesday of this week, at $1.34 a gallon. A station in Frederic offered gas for $1.45 as recent as this past weekend but prices have been jumping back up to the $1.60 range in the past few days. The average price statewide Tuesday was $1.52. Drivers in Houghton Lake, Mich. paid 47 cents to fill up and lines stretched down the street due to a price war between three stations. But a Wisconsin state law makes it unlikely that those types of bargains will ever happen here. AAA Wisconsin says prices are low in our state, too, but not to expect a price war here because of something called the Minimum Markup Law. “It prevents or sets a minimum amount stations can charge based on what they pay wholesale,” said AAA Wisconsin director of public affairs Nick Jarmusz. - with information from AAA
Consideration of price not in the public’s best interest, federal guidelines state PAGE 4
Woman accused of attempting to run man over Same person named in pending mail-theft charges PAGE 3
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