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OFFICER-INVOLVED SHOOTING: Barron County Sheriff’s Office investigating SCF incident P16
Primary results JONATHAN RICHIE SENTINEL EDITOR
Rep. Rob Stafsholt defeated Cherie Link in Tuesday’s partisan primary election. Stafsholt currently represents State Assembly District 29. In Burnett County, Stafsholt won the seat collecting 847 votes with Link accumulated 420. Stafsholt of New Richmond received 12,536 votes across senate district 10, which covers Burnett, Dunn, Pierce, Polk, and St. Croix counties and Link received 6,828. Stafsholt will now face off against Patty Schachtner Stafsholt (D-Somerset) in the Nov. 3 general election. Schachtner has represented the district since being elected in 2018 in a special election. In November Stafsholt held an campaign event in Grantsburg and told the crowd he is a fourth-generation Wisconsin Farmer and that Schachtner “has done nothing in Madison besides vote with democratic governor Tony Evers and other Madison liberals.”
OFFICIAL U.S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH
V-J Day, August 15, 1945. Victory Celebrations (VJ Day) at CINCPAC HQ, Guam, August 15, 1945. Shown: T/5 Carl Gurtcheff, AUS; CPL. Vic Colucci; PHOM2/C Arthur Ryding, USN; PHOM2 Clifford Martin; PHOM2 William Reigger; PHOM2/C James Badgett; PHOM2/C J.F. Whitely; SP(P)2/C Dan Brown; PHOM1/C Clayton Aylor; and TSGT Denny O’Neill. Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/11/10).
V-J Day remembered on 75th anniversary THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM
“It was too much death to contemplate, too much savagery and suffering; and in August 1945 no one was counting. For those who had seen the face of battle and been in the camps and under the bombs—and had lived—there was a sense of immense relief.”
The Allied celebrations on Victory in Europe Day (V-E Day), on May 8, 1945, were subdued by the knowledge that war raged on in the Pacific. As the fighting ended in Europe, US troops were drawing a noose around the Japanese home islands. But there were ominous signs that Japan’s fierce
resistance would continue. The battles for Iwo Jima and Okinawa during the first half of 1945 were marked by spectacular carnage, and Americans were chastened by the knowledge that Japan had never surrendered to a foreign power and that no Japanese military unit had surrendered during World
War II. After Okinawa fell to US forces on June 22, 1945, an invasion of the Japanese home islands was set to begin. But before the invasion was to take place, the most destructive war in history came to a shattering and rapid end. SEE V-J DAY, PAGE 2
Where are the cases in Burnett County? JONATHAN RICHIE EDITOR@BURNETTCOUNTYSENTINEL.COM
The short answer is, we don’t exactly know and the long answer is that we will know more over time. SENTINEL PHOTO
A new database from DHS shows where COVID-19 cases are with census data.
Since Burnett County was notified of the first case of coronavirus in May residents have been wondering and speculating where are the cases of COVID-19 – the coronavirus. The Sentinel has been getting inquires for months about where the cases are, how old the people are, where they got the virus, and whether they were traveling. All valid questions that we also
wanted to be answered. We reached out to the Burnett County COVID-19 Response Team for demographics and regions of where people who have the virus, according to Burnett County Public Health, every current case in the county is isolating at home. The response was that the SEE CASES, PAGE 2
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