TUESDAY WAS PRIMARY ELECTION IN WISCONSIN AND HERE ARE RESULTS FROM THE RACES AROUND THE AREA…SAUK COUNTY SUPERVISOR IN DISTRICT 25, BRIAN PEPER WAS THE TOP VOTE-GETTER WITH 48%; TOM BROUGHTON WITH 27%; ROBERT OCHSNER WITH 15% AND JASON BERGMAN GOT 10%, SO IT WILL BE BRIAN PEPER AND TOM BROUGHTON IN THE APRIL ELECTION…SAUK COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, DISTRICT 29, WILLIAM WENZEL GARNERED 56% AND  BOBBY KOCH RECEIVED 24%, SO WENZEL AND KOCH WILL ADVANCE; PAUL HEFTY WAS ELIMINATED WITH 20% OF THE VOTE…COLUMBIA COUNTY SUPERVISOR IN DISTRICT 4, AUDREY BROWN AND VERN GOVE WILL MOVE ON, BROWN GARNERED 43% OF THE VOTE AND GOVE HAD 41%; MATT GORSUCH RECEIVED 16% IN THAT RACE…COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, DISTRICT 14, SUE BRADLEY GOT THE MOST VOTES WITH 53% AND JAMIE RAMSAY RECEIVED 42%; JENNIFER GORMAN WAS ELIMINATED WITH 8%…FOR PORTAGE SCHOOL BOARD, MARY ANN KINDSCHI AND PAUL KORNAUS WILL ADVANCE: KINDSCHI RECEIVED 51% OF THE TALLY AND KORNAUS GOT 25%; MITCHELL BECKETT FINISHED WITH 24% AND WAS NARROWED DEFEATED BY JUST A FEW VOTES.

THE WISCONSIN STATE PATROL IS INVESTIGATING A FATAL ONE-CAR CRASH MONDAY NIGHT ON INTERSTATE 39 NEAR OXFORD.  18-YEAR-OLD JOSHUA BLUM OF BARABOO DIED WHEN THE PICKUP HIS WAS DRIVING HIT THE MEDIAN AND OVERTURNED LANDING IN THE ONCOMING LANES.  BLUM WAS PARTIALLY EJECTED FROM THE TRUCK.  A PASSENGER, 18-YEAR-OLD ALEXANDER MILLER OF BARABOO SUFFERED NON-LIFE-THREATENING INJURIES.  THE CAUSE OF THE CRASH APPEARS TO BE A BLOWN TIRE ON THE PICKUP.  BLUM WAS A SENIOR AT BARABOO HIGH SCHOOL.

ALCOHOL APPEARS TO BE A FACTOR IN A CRASH SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 82 AND COUNTY B IN ADAMS COUNTY.  THE ACCIDENT INVOLVED TWO PICKUPS AND BOTH DRIVERS WERE REPORTEDLY FROM WISCONSIN DELLS.  ONE OF THE DRIVERS WAS PINNED IN HIS VEHICLE AND HAD TO BE MED-FLIGHTED TO A MADISON HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS LISTED IN STABLE CONDITION.  THE ADAMS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE AND WISCONSIN STATE PATROL ARE INVESTIGATING.

EARLY MONDAY MORNING, REEDSBURG POLICE WERE NOTIFIED THAT A POSSIBLE STOLEN VEHICLE FROM SAUK COUNTY WAS IN THE REEDSBURG AREA.OFFICERS LOCATED THE REPORTED STOLEN VEHICLE AT 5:57AM ON NORTH DEWEY AVENUE AT 8TH STREET IN THE CITY OF REEDSBURG.THE OFFICER STOPPED THE VEHICLE AND IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER AS PATRICK J. STORM (24) OF BARABOO. THE ORIGINAL SAUK COUNTY COMPLAINANT THEN DECLINED TO PURSUE CHARGES FOR STEALING THE VEHICLE; HOWEVER, STORM WAS ALSO INTOXICATED. OFFICERS ARRESTED STORM FOR OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILE INTOXICATED AND OPERATING WITH A PROHIBITED ALCOHOL CONTENT. STORM PROVIDED A BREATH SAMPLE OF .14%. THE VEHICLE WAS RETURNED TO THE OWNER AND STORM WAS ISSUED AND RELEASED.

REEDSBURG POLICE STOPPED A VEHICLE EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AND CHARGED THE OCCUPANTS WITH OPERATING A VEHICLE WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE AND POSSESSION OF CRACK COCAINE. REEDSBURG POLICE OFFICER KYLE MUELLER STOPPED THE VEHICLE AT 3:00 A.M. IN THE 1000 BLOCK OF VIKING DRIVE FOR TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS. THE DRIVER, PETER J. MACONAGHY (23), OF REEDSBURG, WAS ARRESTED FOR OWI AND THE VEHICLE WAS SEARCHED. OFFICERS LOCATED 3 GRAMS OF COCAINE BASE, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS “CRACK”.  IN ADDITION TO THE OWI, MACONAGHY WAS CHARGED WITH POSSESSION OF COCAINE AS WAS HIS PASSENGER, AARON G. BOLDEN (29) OF WISCONSIN DELLS. MACONAGHY AND BOLDEN WERE TRANSPORTED TO THE SAUK COUNTY JAIL.