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Next Saturday, September 17th is the last Clean Sweep event of the year in our area! Time to clean out your garage and dispose of that waste properly.  Location: WRR Environmental, 5200 Ryder Road, Eau ClaireTime: 8AM-12PM Fees apply to:Latex paint $4/gallonLightbulbs starting at $0.35 each (varies by type)20lb Propane tanks $10 each  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

The ups and downs of love are usually quite a wild ride! For this week’s Friday Feel Good we take those natural ebbs and flows into the actual amusement park to meet a single dad who took a leap and buckled in… CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE STORY WITH MORGAN MCCARTHY He is a dad from Ohio who is going viral for his adorable TikTok video where he tries to find a date to take his teenage daughter and her friend to an amusement

Beginning Saturday, September 17th, there will be four drive-thru vaccine clinics at Oakwood Mall for people to get the fall “bivalent” COVID booster that helps protect against the Omicron and original strains of COVID-19. These clinics will take place from 9 am – 2 pm in the south mall parking lot, behind Hobby Lobby (4720 Golf Road, Eau Claire). Clinic dates are September 17, September 24, October 1, and October 8. Booster doses are free of charge and no insurance

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are moving ahead with formal charges against a couple for an April homicide.  The D.A. this week filed homicide charges against 55-year-old Tracey Clark and  46-year-old Brandon Gaston of Rockford, Illinois.  Investigators say they killed a 79-year-old man in his Altoona home.  His body was found a few days later in a river in Rockford.  Clark and Gaston are due back in court in Eau Claire next week.

More details have been provided about the child abuse investigation at a Waukesha school.  Investigators say a teacher at The Lawrence School, Heather Miller, slammed a special needs baby into his crib mattress then held him there for about 30 seconds until the boy started to wheeze.  Another teacher saw the abuse and reported it.  Waukesha Police arrested Miller and three other teachers who did not report the abuse on Wednesday.  She is awaiting formal charges.

Wisconsin’s state superintendent wants more money for schools in the next state budget. Superintendent Jill Underly yesterday released her two-point-five billion-dollar budget proposal. It would spend more on per-pupil aid for local schools, spend more on special-ed, spend more on student mental health, and spend more to offer all school kids in the state free school lunches.  Her plan is not likely to become law.  The Republican-led legislature will start writing the new budget early next year.

Wisconsin’s governor says he’ll legalize marijuana if he’s re-elected.  Governor Tony Evers told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday that he will focus on legalizing and taxing marijuana in his second term.  The governor says it’s time that Wisconsin join the dozens of other states which have either medical marijuana or recreational marijuana programs.  Evers said he will use the millions of dollars from pot sales to pay for schools across the state.  On the other side of the aisle, Republicans say his

The national rail strike looks to be settled, but some of the trains in Wisconsin are still not running.  Amtrak yesterday said there will continue to be disruptions on the train service from Chicago to Minneapolis.  That means stops in Madison and The Dells are on-hold.  Amtrak canceled all of its long distance routes this week ahead of that possible railroad strike.  The trains from Milwaukee to Chicago were running as scheduled yesterday.

Eau Claire is considering a boardwalk for Half Moon Lake.  The city council talked about the plan at Wednesday night’s meeting.  Eau Claire Parks manager Steve Plaza says the boardwalk would have sitting areas, nice views, and possibly informational kiosks.  Plaza said the boardwalk would replace the current path around the lake.  He figures it will cost about one million dollars to build.

There’s another plea from Wisconsin’s public health managers to get another vaccine.  The State’s Department of Public Health yesterday said it is time to get flu shots. DHS says flu shots won’t stop people from getting sick, but will protect people from getting a serious case of the flu.  The flu is most dangerous to the very young and the very old. Flu season starts next month.