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The Chippewa Valley After Hours Rotary Club is conducting its sixth annual Thanksgiving Dinner Drive today to put a traditional Thanksgiving meal on the table of local families in need. This year the club is helping 63 families in need and 316 people overall.  Each June, the Chippewa Valley After Hours Rotary Club partners with title sponsor PESI to host Taste of the Valley at Phoenix Park. As the benefactor of this fundraising event, the Rotary Club aims to provide

All adults aged 18 or over are now eligible to receive COVID-19 vaccine booster doses. People who have already been vaccinated are eligible for a booster dose six months after their second dose of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine, or two months after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Local vaccine appointments can be found at vaccines.gov. You can get any of the COVID-19 vaccines for your booster.

The nation’s COVID vaccine mandates do not account for natural immunity, and some believe that’s not fair.  However, Baylor infectious disease expert Dr. Peter Hotez says catching the virus, and then recovering, is far from a one-size-fits-all scenario. Texas Republican Congressman Chip Roy is filing a bill that would require Health and Human Services to compile data on the effectiveness of natural immunity.  A recent CDC study found those who caught COVID, and developed antibodies, were five times more likely

The standoff over last year’s ballots in Madison is over. Madison’s city clerk’s office last week quietly allowed state auditors to examine the ballots from last fall. Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl had told auditors they could not review the ballots, but she later allowed them to see the ballots as her staff handled them. A spokesperson for Wisconsin’s senate Majority Leader said that fell in line with the subpoena from lawmakers who demanded access to the ballots. The ballot review is part

This is the last year for James Madison Memorial High School in Madison. The city’s school board last night voted to rename the school for Vel Phillips who was Wisconsin’s first Black statewide official. Madison fell out of favor because he owned slaves. The name change will begin with the start of the next school year.

There are a lot of questions about how the suspect in Waukesha’s parade tragedy was out of jail. Mark Mayfield has more: Democratic Madison state Senator Melissa Agard on Monday said she wants an open and transparent investigation into the low bail that Darrell Brooks got just last week. Brooks posted a thousand dollars and walked out of jail on November 11th. Milwaukee County’s district attorney says he is going to look into how the suspect in Waukesha’s parade tragedy

Three people are recovering after a two car wreck in Dunn County. It happened yesterday afternoon in the Town of Hay River. The sheriff’s office says two people had to be pulled from a burning vehicle. They had to be flown to the hospital for treatment of what deputies are calling serious injuries. The third person was treated for non–life threatening injuries. The sheriff’s office says it looks like the two cars crashed head-on while cresting a hill.

A southern Wisconsin doctor is heading to prison for four-and-a-half years for taking part in a Medicaid scam. A judge in Madison sentenced Dr. Ravi Murali  to 54 months in prison for his role in a multi-million-dollar billing scam. Prosecutors say Murali wrote thousands of fake orders for medical equipment. Those orders totaled 26-million-dollars, of which Medicaid paid for half. Murali pleaded guilty in the case back in March.

Chippewa Falls firefighters are looking to raise some money for a new drone. The drone costs about 75 hundred dollars, but comes with an extra battery and an advanced camera. The hope is to use the drone for search and rescue missions. The Chippewa Falls Police Department Alumni Association is looking to raise the money.

Plans are underway to open a new homeless shelter in Menomonie. Stepping Stones of Dunn County says they have more homeless people this year than they have beds. That means many homeless are being put-up in local hotels. Stepping Stones is hoping to end that by opening a new shelter for up to 20 homeless people The idea is to build on land they already own along Stout Road. The design is a one–and-a-half million-dollar, 58 hundred square foot shelter.