Windom Police reported a hit and run incident on the 6th in the 1300 block of 5th Avenue. The owner of a 2006 Buick LaCrosse reported she had parked on the street in front of her residence. When she had gotten into her vehicle at 7am to go to work, she noticed the driver’s door was hard to close. At that time, she noticed the front drivers door was damaged. On the 3rd of September at 735am an officer met with a Windom female resident who stated she had received an e-mail that her Amazon account was being hacked. The reporting party did not think anything of this until she received a phone call from “Lisa” with Amazon. Lisa advised her that her Amazon account had been hacked and that she needed her to go to her local store and buy gift cards and she will call back to get the numbers off the back. The female went to HyVee in Windom and bought two $500 gift cards. The female did state that the HyVee employee questioned her about this purchase but in her mind she needed to do this to fix her account. The female stated that “Lisa” called back and she gave her the numbers off the cards. “Lisa” then advised her that she needed more money and to get more cards. The female then traveled to Worthington and purchased several more and provided “Lisa” with the card numbers. The total came to $4,250. This matter is under investigation. Also on the 3rd at approximately 11:00am an accident at the intersection of Highway 60 and 6th street sent one person to the hospital. A Female Windom resident driving a 2018 Ford Edge Sport Utility was traveling through the intersection with a green light when a Male from Kearney NE driving a 2005 Hyundai Tucson GL entered the intersection and the two vehicles collided. The male driver was transported to Windom Area Hospital. The Ford sustained moderate damage and the Hyundai received severe disabling damage.
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Jackson County Sheriff’s Office reported on the 4th at 9:30am Deputies responded to a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of 790th Ave and 570th St. in Wisconsin Township. Jason Weets of Alpha was travelling eastbound on 570th St. in a 2004 Ford Taurus. Vincent Turner of Jackson, Missouri and (4) passengers were travelling southbound on 570th St. in a 2002 Honda. The vehicles collided in the intersection, and both received heavy damage. The Jackson Ambulance and Warmka Towing assisted at the scene.
5th, at 2:59am the Heron Lake Ambulance was paged to a single vehicle accident with injuries near the intersection of MN 62 and County Road 7 in Cottonwood County. At 12:27pm a Deputy, the Heron Lake Ambulance and Heron Lake Fire Department responded to a two vehicle accident with a fatality at the intersection of MN 62 and County Road 5 in Cottonwood County. Crews were on scene for 2.5 hours. Deputies responded to a disturbance in Jackson at 5:43pm and then a disturbance in Alpha at 7:43pm. On the 6th Deputies assisted Jackson Ambulance with a medical call at 3:04 am, 7:55am, 10:39am and at 3:54pm. Deputies handled a loud music complaint at an apartment complex in Jackson at 11:11am and at 4:08pm a deputy picked up and transported a 43-year-old male from Austin from the Jackson/Martin County Line from a MN State Trooper to the Jackson County Jail. The male his awaiting a court appearance on the violation of a Probation Apprehend and Detain Order for a 3rd Degree DUI offense Violation.
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Cottonwood County Board of Commissioners met on the 6th. MN Dot presented a 10-year Capital Highway Improvement Plan and the Board accepted the low bid from Hometown Sanitation in the amount of $995,000 dollars which breaks down to $199,000 per year for the 2023-2027 recycling. The Board listened to an update and budget request for 2023 year from the Cottonwood County Historical Society. The Board approved the Chair to sign the Board Ratification Statement for the time period of January 1, 2023 to December 2025 between MCCC and Strategic Technologies Inc. They also approved the Professional Services Agreement with Schneider Geospatial LLC for GIS/NextGen 911 maintenance. The Commissioners then agreed to sign the 2023 Service Contract for SafeAssure as safety consultants and sign the Fiscal Year 2023 BWSR-MPCA SSTS Program Grant Agreement.
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Windom City Council met on Tuesday of this week. The Council listened to Michael Bogle a Windom Resident concerning his place of residence. Bogle is asking the council to petition the Court to lift a court order already in place for the property to be cleaned up and be safe by October 31st. This would allow him to try to obtain a building permit and start working on the structure to rebuild. Discussion was held between Council members and the building inspector which resulted in the Council NOT taking action so the current court order stands and the property will be looked at on October 31st and decisions may be made at the first meeting in November. The Council heard from the Electric Department about the planned power outage on Sunday September 11th from 3am to 5am. Two 2,825 KiloWatt generators were bid on and Ziegler Power Systems were awarded the lowest bid at 3 million 468 thousand 630 dollars $3,468,630. A call for a public hearing was made for the application for USDA for Fire Equipment Projects. The public hearing has been set for September 20th. The USDA has more money and the Council submitted their 3rd and final request for funding which may be awarded. According to Council member Jenny Quade, there was an equipment request for the Street Department for a Dump Truck/Snow Plow. She went onto say, “This bid had already been out and 3 trucks were set to be ordered but the quote is more than $10,000 more in surcharges. The pricing market for trucks is so rapidly changing. Overall the thought was to lock in getting the trucks ordered as things will probably continue to change and ordering may be pushed out to a later date if not signed soon. Council agreed to move forward with the current bid.”
The 2023 Budget Workshop Date were agreed on. They will be September 27th, October 11th and October 25th. All meetings starting at 5:30pm.