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The Eau Claire Police Department is naming two new school resource officers to serve during the 2021-22 school year. Officers Tom Xiong and Ellen Scott were selected by the community. Scott will serve as the S-R-O at Memorial High School. Xiong will work in Northstar Middle School.

At approximately 11:50pm on May 29, ECPD received a traffic complaint of a vehicle that had almost hit pedestrians crossing in a crosswalk. Witnesses believed the vehicle was traveling at least 70mph on Brackett Av. Public space camera and business videos were obtained. Witnesses and videos indicate the vehicle may be a silver or gray, older Grand Prix with an unknown license plate. ECPD is asking anyone with information about this vehicle or the driver to contact the communication center’s

Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #118 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on Fri., June 4, 2021 in honor of Maj. Gen. James G. Blaney who passed away on October 18, 2020 at the age of 82. Maj. Gen. Blaney joined the Wisconsin National Guard in 1960, mobilized to federal service in 1961 with the 32nd Infantry Division during the Berlin Crisis, and served as the Adjutant General

Chippewa Valley Museum Hosts Its First Blood Drive  Free admission for all blood donors to view museum exhibits. The event is planned for Monday, June 14, 2021 11:30am-4:30pm Chippewa Valley Museum located at 1204 E Half Moon Dr in Carson Park.  This is their first blood drive ever and they will be providing free admission to see the main building of exhibits, including Listen Up! Folk Music in the Valley, for all blood donors.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

It’s a staple in Fall Creek and a lot of people are still processing the loss of Chicken Chasers after a fire yesterday. The local favorite on Highway 12 was a top stop for a cold one or a bite to eat and now the bar and grill along with the apartments are destroyed. Fire crews from Fall Creek were on site for hours, along with neighboring communities. Township Fire Department 1, Altoona, and Augusta Departments joined to take on

One of Wisconsin’s National Guard units is heading overseas for the first time since the first Gulf War. About 150 troops with the 107th Maintenance Company, based in Sparta, deployed over the weekend. They will first stop in Texas, then will go to Europe for a multi-national training exercise. Commanders say this is the first trip overseas and the first deployment for many of the troops. There’s no word as to just how long the troops will be deployed.

Eau Claire Police are looking for answers after a shooting just across the river from downtown. Police got the call about shots being fired in the 1000- block of 3rd Avenue on Monday evening. Officers say the shots may have come from two groups of people shooting at each other. Police found shell casings, but say there are no reports of any injuries. Officers say they believe the shooting is an isolated incident.

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are moving ahead with felony charges against a local woman accused of voting twice in 2018. The D.A. filed the charges earlier this week against 63-year-old Elizabeth Olson. Prosecutors say she voted in both Eau Claire and in Nevada in the November 2018 election. No one is saying who she voted for. Olson is one of the more than two-dozen Wisconsin voters outed for voter fraud by the state’s Elections Commission last month.

They are hiring in Chippewa Falls. Ashley Furniture yesterday announced it is opening a new facility in the city, and that will mean 200 new jobs. Chippewa Falls Mayor Greg Hoffman yesterday said the new production facility will help diversify the city’s economy. Ashley has already started hiring, and the company hopes to start production sometime this month.

A lot of ‘he’s’ and ‘her’s’ in Wisconsin’s official forms and pamphlets are likely going to be replaced with ‘their’s.’ Governor Tony Evers yesterday ordered state agencies under his control to remove gender-specific language from the state’s ‘external documents.’ The governor says using gendered language makes assumptions that are no longer necessarily true. It will take some time. The state’s Department of Administration must first write a policy for how to use non-gendered language in the future. The governor did not