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Frosty the Snowman is a regular fixture in many yards around our community during the winter months, but for this week’s Friday Feel Good we take a trip to the Sunshine state for a jump into snow.  There was a teacher in Florida who used their climate as an opportunity to get creative and prove there is no reason the tropics can’t have the white stuff too.  Ms. Hughes had a class of kids who wanted to see snow, and like

The latest class of Wisconsin National Guardsmen are heading to hospitals and nursing homes across the state.  Commanders say 70 troops completed their CNA training at Madison College this week.  They are just some of the 200 troops the Governor Tony Evers has ordered to be trained as CNAs to help overwhelmed civilian employees.  In all, the soldiers will be sent to facilities in 17 communities across the state.

 We have some more details about the deaths in La Crosse on Wednesday.  Police say two people and a dog died in a murder-suicide. Investigators say it looks like Jordan Garcia shot his girlfriend and their dog before taking his own life.  Police say he pulled the trigger, but they are not saying why.

It’s a million-dollars bail for one of the suspects in a drug-related killing in Green Bay.  A judge yesterday set Pedro Santiago-Marquez’s bail at seven-figures.  He’s accused of shooting a man, then lighting his body on fire to avoid paying an 80-thousand-dollar cocaine debt.  Two other men are facing charges for helping hide or burn the body along the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay trail back in September.

UW-Eau Claire is trying to figure out how to spend its nine million-dollar workforce development grant.  University leaders held a roundtable discussion yesterday, Governor Tony Evers announced the grant back in December, the idea is to help train workers for jobs in healthcare and social services for rural Wisconsin.  No one is quite sure just what the program will look like.  The Chippewa Valley Technical College also got a grant from the governor in December.  CVTC is figuring out how to

There’s a change in ownership coming for the Fleet Farm distribution center in Chippewa Falls.  DHL Supply Chain, which currently operates the center, has informed the state that it will be ending its service at the hub in Chippewa Falls by the end of March.  Chippewa Falls’ mayor says Fleet Farm will then take over.  The people working at the warehouse will have an option to stay with their jobs. You can read more about this transfer in The Leader

Voters could soon decide if outside groups should be able to give local election offices in Wisconsin millions of dollars.  Republicans at the Capitol are pushing a constitutional amendment that would ban the so-called Zuckerbucks.  Those are the donations from the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life that played a role in the 2020 election.  The group spent nine million-dollars in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Racine, and Kenosha. Republicans say the group all but took over the election operation in

Wisconsin is ending the week with under 14 hundred people in the hospital with the coronavirus.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said hospitalizations in the state continue to fall.  ICU admissions for the virus are down to 278.  It was just three weeks ago that Wisconsin set a record for coronavirus hospitalizations.

Wisconsin Republicans are looking to add laws to protect healthcare workers.  Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu yesterday introduced legislation they say will crackdown on people who threaten or attack healthcare workers.  The two say there’s been a spike in cases where angry patients lash-out, harass, or intimidate people working in hospitals and nursing homes.

Madison’s mayor is predicting a Milwaukee-to-Madison Amtrak line within five years.  Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway yesterday said money from the new, massive federal infrastructure package could provide the funding for the new train line.  Rhodes-Conway, along with Milwaukee’s former mayor Tom Barrett have been working for years to expand Amtrak service in the state.  In addition to the Milwaukee-to-Madison line, there are plans for a Milwaukee-to-Green Bay line, and a train line that will run from Milwaukee all the way to