Jeep Wrangler with hood scoop? Hard to believe, no? Under the hood a 6.4-liter Chrysler Hemi V-8 rated at 470 horsepower. Tricked out from the factory in Tuscadero lavender. At Sugarloaf Ford in Winona. Image: Steve Lunde

Earlier: Notable automobiles

WINONA, Minn. – A Winona woman was arrested after taking a scissors to stop her husband from leaving their place after a fight, police said. Arrested was Precious Jessica Paetzel, age 25. This was about 1:25 a.m. in the 150 block of East King Street. Both called 911 for help, but police concluded from video cameras that Precious was the primary aggressor. This is what police reported observing on the tapes: The couple had been arguing for days, but it came to a head, both said, when he arrived home from work and became upset that she hadn’t taken their dogs out for a walk. The husband decided to leave for the night and strapped on a backpack. She blocked his exit and pushed him to a couch and took a scissors to cut the straps off the backpack. Neither was injured, although husband complain of pain from being pushed off balance to the couch.

Paeztel. Charged with assault instilling fear and injury.

10-year life- cycle. The fiber-carbon blades on the twin wind turbines at Lewiston are being replaced after 10 years of pitting by dust and other wind-born abrasive elements. It’s a massive although routine project for crews to keep the off-line time as brief as possible.  Images: Steve Lunde

New turbine blades on-site as replacements

LEWISTON, Minn. – A Rosemount company, Vic’s Crane and Heavy Lifting, has the contract to remove the blades from towers at the Lewiston wind farm and to replace them. The 250-foot blades will be chopped up and recycled. The Lewiston wind farm was built by Gundersen hospital in LaCrosse to pump electricity into the regional power grid to offset its own electricity consumption. Although relatively a small wind farm, the Lewiston project generates enough energy to power 1,400 homes. Typical blades weigh four to seven tons each. Transporting blades requires special equipment – in some cases a tractor and two trailers, with the second tailer equipped to be self-steerable. Some rigs have as many as many as 14 axles and 40 tires total.

Hoisting and carting blades. Fiber-carbon blades weigh four to seven tons. Hoisting them takes usually tall aerial cranes. Transporting them requires special vehicles. The largest blades require a tractor and two trailers, with the second trailer independently steerable. The biggest of these custom-designed rigs have 14 axles with 40 tires.

Earlier: Small town prevails against turbine blade dump

Earlier: Gentle twirl rising from mown corn field

Soccer (women): Concordia of Sy. Paul 5, Winona State 0

Soccer (women): North Centra of Ilinois 6, UW-LaCrosse 0

WINONA, Minn. – A deputy arrested Goodview motorist after an eyewitness reported him veering in and out of his lane and bouncing off a guardrail coming back from Wisconsin over the interstate bridge. The deputy intercepted Jose Atanasio Cruz-Lumbi, age 47, about 7 p.m on Riverview Drive 1-1/2 miles from the bridge. He admitted to a couple beers, but, according to tests, his blood was running 0.17% alcohol. The legally allowable max is 0.08%.  He failed a battery of field tests for impairment, police said.

Cruz-Lumbi. Arrest on Riverview Drive near Prairie Island Road

LAMOILLE, Minn. – A 911 caller said told he sheriff’s dispatcher that he had been on the phone with an acquaintance who was threatening suicide and then heard a gunshot. A deputy went to an address up Miner Valley Road and found a 35-year-old man deceased. The deputy said that no foul play seemed involved, but the regional medical examiner in Rochester was asked to evaluate the situation. The death was near Twin Bluffs about 12 miles downriver from Winona.

WINONA, Minn. – When a deputy stopped a suburban St. Paul driver, he smelled alcohol from the open car window. After failing a series of roadside sobriety tests, the driver, Taylor Ann Johnson, 21, of Woodbury, was charged with drunken driving. At 0.16%, her blood-alcohol was double the legal impairment level. There also were other signs of impairment, the deputy said. The arrest followed a traffic stop for a suspended object dangling from Johnson’s rearveiw mirror. This was about 2:55 a.m. near Fourth and Lafayette streets on the East Side.

Johnson. Watery and red eyes, slurred speech, poor balance.

WINONA, Minn. – A Minnesota City man was arrested, police said, after drinking way too much. A breath test showed Irish James Grotjahan, 22, had a blood-alcohol level of 20% — 2-1/2 times more than the legal impairment level. This was about 1:10 a.m. near Fifth and Wabasha streets. On-scene he had trouble standing and speaking in addition to bloodshot and watery eyes, police said.

Grotjahan. Smelled like a drunk, police said.

GOODVIEW, Minn.  – Police ticketed three Winna teen-agers after a motorist reported they were hog-tailgating him on U.S. Highway 61 heading north out of Goodview. Deputies reached the motorist where he had stopped near the 44th Avenue crossover, and he pointed to the teen-age boys pulling into a parking lot a ways away apparently to see what was going on. This was about 1 a.m. Police ticketed the teens, two of whom for underage drinking and a third suspected of being under the influence of a controlled distance. Also, two of them were cited as too young to be driving without an adult on board. They were in a 2003 Acura and a 2003 Toyota Camry, which the complainant-motorist described as the harassing vehicles.

WINONA, Minn. – Tenants in an apartment building just off Center Street called police that their landlord was being loud and obnoxious and banging at their door. Police arrived and found the landlord, who lives in the building, was yelling still and pounding and persisting. Cited for disorderly conduct was 60-year-ood Lindsay Teresa Huff. This was about 11:10 p.m. in the 50 block of West Fifth Street. Tenants said that Huff had been back three times, shouting through the door and banging about hem having visitors. Finally they called the cops.

For a beer and snack. Hogs wheeled in and out of Riser’s, sometimes 50 on their kickstands at a time, most with a biker chick gripping tightly onto their guy’s waist.

Hot new pit stop. The only bar in Stockton, up Garvin Brook from Winona, has become the new “place to be” for bikers on their autumn circuits through the bluff country. Images: Steve Lunde

ALTURA, Minn – Deputies were called to an Altura tavern after a woman called that a fellow patron had thrown a can of beer at her. When deputies arrived and asked if she wanted to file a complaint, she said no.

Soccer (women): Augustana 1, Winona State 0

Soccer (women): Calvin 3, UW-LaCrosse 1

Volleyball (women): Central of Iowa 3, Saint Mary’s 1

Volleyball (women): UW-LaCrosse 3, Monmouth 2

SHAKOPEE, Minn.  – A light plane crashed on a grassy slope at Scenic Heights Park near the East Middle School in this southwest Minneapolis suburb. Nobody on the ground was hurt. Two people on the plane were taken to a hospital with serious injuries. There was no fire. The crash was about 12:30 p.m.  Classes at the school, which has 780 students in Grades 6 to 8, continued through the end of the day as scheduled. The plane, a twin-engine Piper PA-44, came down steeply but landed on its belly Damaged was severe. The plane was on training loops from the Flying Cloud airport five miles away in Eden Prairie.

Piper PA-44 Seminole. A favorite of flight schools for multi-engine training. In production since 1979. About 1,000 have been produced. Three-passenger capacity.  Weight: 2,400 pounds. Cruising speed: 187 mph.