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The first postcards for Wisconsin voters who may have moved are arriving this week. The Wisconsin Elections Commission mailed the postcards to any voter who may have moved. The cards remind voters to update their voter registration. If voters ignore the cards, local election clerks can remove them from the state’s active voter rolls.

It’s cherry-picking time in Door County. The picking season doesn’t typically begin for a few weeks, but growers say the past few weeks of hot and humid weather have the cherry crop ready to go early. Many pick-you-own orchards are open for visitors. Growers say this year’s crop looks good, and may even be a bit larger than usual.

Wisconsin households that qualify could now receive assistance for internet costs.  Governor Tony Evers announced today the state’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program will offer that assistance.  Application criteria includes one or more people in the household qualifying for unemployment benefits or experiencing a reduction in household income, or if one or more people in the household can demonstrate a risk of homelessness or housing instability. 

A new program awarding scholarships to under-represented UW students will provide a-million-dollars in funding to the inaugural group.  UW System President Tommy Thompson announced today that nearly 300 students will share the scholarship money this year.  The scholarships consider a student’s financial need, time spent volunteering for community service and who has overcome adversity.  The scholarships range from a thousand dollars to nine-thousand-dollars. 

They won’t be rolling up their sleeves but some animals at the Madison and Milwaukee zoos will receive a shot against COVID-19.  Officials say the experimental vaccine has been authorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and distribution should begin later this month.  There have been no COVID infections in animals at the Henry Vilas or Milwaukee County Zoo, but animals elsewhere including at the Bronx Zoo did become sick as the virus accelerated last year. 

With summer in full swing, Xcel Energy is reminding boating and fishing enthusiasts to be safe around dams and hydroelectric facilities. Boating or canoeing above or below a dam can be dangerous. “If you’re operating a watercraft near adam, you need to be aware of changing flow conditions from either the spillway or powerhouse,” said RobOlson, Hydro Operations at Xcel Energy. “And if you recreate near a dam, you need to be aware of yoursurroundings so you can quickly respond

It’s going to be a day of cleaning-up for some folks after yesterday’s storms in the Chippewa Valley. Forecasters say yesterday’s thunderstorms knocked down trees and rattled homes south of the city. Folks from Osseo to the south saw the worst of it. There are no reports of any injuries. Forecasters say some spots got more than an inch of rain from yesterday’s storms. More rain is expected throughout today

Prosecutors say there was some planning, and some help, in last week’s crime spree in Oconomowoc. The D.A. in Waukesha County yesterday filed charges against 44-year-old Kaia Mueller, who’s the man accused of carjacking an elderly man then robbing the Waukesha State Bank in Oconomowoc. The D.A. also filed charges against 21-year-old Malachi Thorne-Gray, whom they say gave Mueller the gun used in the robbery and picked him up from the boat launch where Mueller stashed one of the stolen

Wisconsin is not going to miss-out on its share of the national opioid settlement. Governor Evers yesterday signed the law that will distribute the state’s share of the 26-billion-dollars that drug makers will pay the states, to communities across this state. The governor says local governments need help in dealing with opioid deaths. Under the law, 70-percent of Wisconsin’s money will go toward local governments. But the law stops cities from filing their own lawsuits against drug makers to recoup their costs.

Kids in Chippewa Falls schools won’t be forced to wear masks when they return to class in the fall. Superintendent Jeff Holmes sent an email to parents yesterday explaining that the district is going to make masks optional. The superintendent says the CDC continues to recommend masks, but he said Chippewa Falls schools will not require them. Kids are going to have to wear masks on the school bus until the federal mask requirement ends in mid-September.