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Madison’s mayor wants to use about four-and-a-half-million-dollars of the city’s stimulus money for bonuses for most city workers. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway yesterday said the plan is to offer non-union city workers a 22-hundred-dollar bonus. The American Rescue Plan rules allow the stimulus money to be spent on ‘essential’ city workers, but that may not include the people who Rhodes-Conway wants to pay. Many city of Madison workers have spent the past year working from home, and that would make them

It looks like Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine numbers are going-up. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday updated last week’s vaccine count, and increased the total. DHS now says over 99-thousand people got a shot. The original count was just over 64-thousand people. The change means more people got the shot than the week before. Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine numbers have been steadily falling since their peak in April. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

 Today is an opportunity to continue with a healthy part of your diet.  It’s National Eat Your Vegetables Day.  The food items your parents always made you eat can contain protein, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.  USDA Dietary Guidelines recommend eating three-to-five servings of veggies each day.  Vegetable day also falls in the middle of National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month.

The Wisconsin 4-H Foundation awarded Jesse Groell of Osseo, Wis. a $1,000 Oscar G. & Mary W. Woelfel Memorial Scholarship. Jesse has been in Wisconsin 4-H for 11 years, and is a member of the Russell Corner 4-H club in Eau Claire Countywhere he served as Treasurer. He won the Eau Claire County Leadership Award in 2018 and 2019, and participatedin the Wisconsin 4-H Livestock Skillathon contest. Jesse graduated from Osseo-Fairchild High School and plans to attend UW-River Falls to

The bodies of three Wisconsin brothers have been accounted for nearly 80 years after their deaths.  Sue Danielson reports: The Department of Defense confirmed Wednesday the three brothers hailed from New Lisbon, and were all serving on the USS Oklahoma at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  The agency identified 21-year-old Navy Fireman 1st Class Leroy K. Barber and 22-year-old Malcolm J. Barber.  Randolph H. Barber was the youngest brother at only 19-years-old, and was a Navy Fireman 2nd

The state Assembly is set to debate Republican-sponsored bills attempting to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women’s sports.  On Wednesday the state Assembly will discuss the two-bill package requiring school districts K through 12, and higher education institutions to divide sports into three divisions based on sex: boys, girls and co-ed.  The proposal defines “sex” as the sex assigned at birth by a physician.  The legislation is part of a nationwide effort in more than 30 states

A woman charged with the murder of a one-year-old in Minnesota is facing extradition from Chippewa Falls after she was arrested on drug charges. Chippewa Falls police say the 29-year-old is charged with second- and third-degree murder from November 2020 in Minnesota. She was arrested in Chippewa Falls this week and charged with identity theft, possession of meth and drug paraphernalia, and misappropriating an I-D to obtain money. She’s in the Chippewa County jail pending an extradition hearing tomorrow.

Fire danger is high in Wisconsin. The state department of natural resources fire danger map shows most of the state at risk for high fire danger because of dry conditions in the state. Counties above a line running diagonal across the state from Ashland to Sheboygan counties are in a moderate fire danger zone.

It’s berry picking season, but it won’t last long. Govin’s Farm in Menomonie is inviting people to come pick or pick-up strawberries before they sell out. On its website, Govin’s Farm says the myth that berries are done by July 4th is not always true. They say the berries are getting a head start.

Moores on Main in downtown Ashland unveiled its new look today following the completion of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s (WEDC’s) sixth annual Main Street Makeover Contest. “Small businesses like Moores on Main are key drivers of Wisconsin’s economy,” said Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who attended today’s ribbon cutting with WEDC Secretary and CEO Missy Hughes. “These design improvements won’t just benefit Moores on Main but will also support other downtown businesses that serve the customers the shop brings in.”