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On April 30, 2022, the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office participated in the annual “Drug Take Back” event. This event is held on a yearly basis to take back unused prescription drugs that community members may have in their homes. This prevents medications from being accidentally ingested, stolen, misused, or abused. It also provides a safe alternative for destroying the medication and protecting our water supply. This year’s event took place at Marshfield Clinic. The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office

By Alyssa Van Duyse Chippewa Valley Technical College Students loaded an all-terrain vehicle with three different varieties of maple trees and motored them to a parking lot boulevard at the Energy Education Center at Chippewa Valley Technical College. Susan Frame, CVTC horticulture instructor, said teaching students how to properly plant trees isn’t just about class participation. It teaches them a life skill. With Frame’s knowledge and the brainpower of Matt Staudenmaier, adjunct horticulture instructor and forestry supervisor for the city

CO-WORKERS. There are usually mixed feelings about the ones we work with, but for this week’s Friday Feel Good we look beyond the next cubicle and see a bond that extends far beyond the coffee machine.  A Canadian woman who needed a new liver was gifted one from a co-worker that she only really knew as an acquaintance.   Although Karla and Scott work together the pair were “basically strangers” when Watson offered to give her a donation she’d been desperately searching for. For the last six

The search for a missing Milwaukee mom is over, and the investigation into her death has begun. Police found Emily Rogers yesterday in St. Francis. She’d been missing for more than a week and was at the center of a frantic search. Milwaukee Police say several people are in custody in connection to her death, but there are no charges as of yet.  An autopsy for Rogers is scheduled for today.

A new court date was set for June 24th and more details are coming in Lily Peters’ death. The judge in the case yesterday said he will unseal the case file. That will give people a look at some of the evidence in the case against the 14-year-old accused of killing her. Reports have identified the teen as Peters’ cousin, though it’s unlikely that the case file will confirm that as the judge says some information will be redacted in

Another 66 thousand birds in Wisconsin were put down because of the bird flu this week. The state’s Department of Agriculture yesterday said cases were confirmed in Sauk and Pierce counties, but new cases were also confirmed in Barron County. Barron County now has the most cases of the bird flu in the state, with five confirmed outbreaks at different farms or homes. In all, Wisconsin has confirmed the flu in 11 counties across the state.

Eau Claire says the Emerald ash borer has claimed seven thousand trees over the past five years. City forestry supervisor Matthew Staudenmaier says they first noticed the bugs in a tree on the UW-Eau Claire campus back in 2017. Since then, crews have cut down seven thousand trees. Staudenmaier says there are only about three thousand ash trees left in the entire city. He says any trees that haven’t been treated are likely infested with borers.

Wisconsin is getting two-point-three million-dollars from Turbo Tax. Attorney General Josh Kaul made the announcement yesterday. Wisconsin’s money is part of a nationwide, 141 million-dollar settlement with the company. Kaul says Turbo Tax charged customers for tax services that should have been offered for free. More than 76 thousand people in the state paid too much for their tax returns.

A western Wisconsin State Representative is worried about the future of gifted and talented programs in the state’s schools.  Warren Petryk yesterday said Governor Evers’ veto of his legislation will leave kids behind. Petryk helped get a bill passed that would tally gifted and talented offerings at schools across the state, and track whether schools were offering enough gifted classes to enough students. Governor Evers vetoed the plan, he says because there wasn’t any funding for it. Petryk said gifted and talented

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers are ending the week up from last week. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said 254 people are hospitalized with the virus, including 46 in the ICU. Both of those numbers are up from last week at this time. Wisconsin continues to be far below its omicron-peal of 22 hundred coronavirus hospitalizations. For more from WI DHS CLICK HERE.