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Man accused of threatening Chippewa Co courthouse is mentally committed
CHIPPEWA FALLS — A 40-year-old man accused of making threats last May toward a Chippewa County judge, and the courthouse as a whole, is now under a mental commitment, his attorney says. Harley Alcala, 40, now of Bandera, Texas, was charged in May 2023 with two counts of battery or threat to a judge, prosecutor or law enforcement officer, and one count each of making terrorist threats and threats to injure/accuse of crime. Because the threats were made toward Judge Ben Lane, among others, the...
Britton elected to Conservation Congress' District Leadership Council
Mike Britton was elected to the District Leadership Council of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress at its ninth annual convention held in Appleton on May 9-11. Britton is one of two representatives serving Barron, Burnett, Chippewa, Polk, Rusk and St. Croix counties. Across Wisconsin there are 11 districts with two delegates representing each district. In 1934, lead UW professor Aldo Leopold, Chief Warden Harley MacKenzie, Superintendent of Game William Grimmer and...
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