Application period begins Feb. 5 for public school choice program

Online application period is Feb. 5 to April 30 MADISON — Online applications for public school open enrollment for the 2018-19 school year, Wisconsin’s public school choice program, will be available on the Department of Public Instruction website beginning Feb. 5 through April 30. Traditionally, children in Wisconsin are assigned to public school districts based on the location of their parents’ home. Open enrollment is a tuition-free opportunity for parents to apply for their children to attend a public school in a school district other than the one in which they live. The state’s public school open enrollment program has been in operation since the 1998-99 school year and is

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Rollover in Town of Webster

Vernon County Sheriff John B. Spears reports a single vehicle rollover that occurred on Avalanche Road and County Road S in the Township of Webster on Thursday, Janu   ary 25, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. Taerlyn Johnson, age 36, of rural LaFarge, was traveling west on Avalanche Road when she lost control on the slick roads.  Johnson’s vehicle crossed the centerline and went into the ditch. The vehicle rolled twice and came to rest on the wheels. Johnson became trapped inside the vehicle and had to be extricated by the LaFarge Fire Department.  All occupants were transported to by ambulance to Vernon Memorial Hospital.  Also in the vehicle were Johnson’s

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Wisconsin State Patrol officers now equipped/trained to administer Narcan

Trooper’s recent actions likely saved the life of a woman in northwest Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced continued steps to bring awareness and develop solutions to combat the misuse and abuse of opioids in Wisconsin. Across the state, all 489 State Patrol officers are now trained and equipped to administer the lifesaving opioid antidote Narcan – efforts that likely saved the life of a drug overdose victim during the recent New Year’s holiday. Around 2 a.m. on December 31, 2017, a trooper with the State Patrol’s Spooner Post joined a Sawyer County Sheriff’s deputy and Lac Courte Oreilles police officer for a report of an unresponsive 41-year-old female suspected of

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