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 The Green Bay Packers will play to full capacity crowds at Lambeau Field this season.  The Packers today announced they were going to full capacity for games and events including the shareholders meetings, family night scrimmage and training camp.  Fans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will not be required to wear face masks, but those who are not are asked to voluntarily wear face coverings.

No one will be required to wear a mask during graduation ceremonies in Madison this weekend.  The Madison School District lifted the restriction today because there are concerns about high heat over the weekend.  Officials are asking graduates to still bring their masks with them in case they need to go in a building.  Graduation ceremonies are taking place outdoors and the district is asking people to at least maintain social distancing.

The Rice Lake Police Department is looking for your help identifying this subject. Please send us a message or contact Barron County Dispatch at 715-537-3106 if you can identify her. As always, subjects are presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

 University of Wisconsin student-athletes are getting help marketing their brand.  Sue Danielson reports.

The RCU Foundation is adding a new contest to encourage families to get out and explore their communities and to promote Rock the Riverfront featuring the Charity Classic.  The Youth Rock Hunt is a scavenger hunt that kids can participate in by searching for specially engraved rocks for a chance to win a Royal Credit Union Piggy Bank and $40 cash.  The Youth Rock Hunt starts on the morning of June 11, 2021 and is sponsored by Market & Johnson.  

Wisconsin lawmakers want to tighten-up the voter ID rules for absentee voters and limit the use of ballot dropboxes, but Governor Evers is saying ‘No.’ The governor yesterday promised to veto any of the election reform laws that come from the Republican-controlled legislature. The governor says he doesn’t want to make it more difficult for anyone in the state to vote. Republican state Senator Duey Stroebel, who wrote many of the reforms, says lawmakers are simply trying to level the playing

Add this to the list of doomed plans from Wisconsin lawmakers. Both the Assembly and Senate yesterday approved a plan to withdraw the state from the federal government’s enhanced unemployment benefit program. Republicans in the legislature say the extra 300 dollars-a-week that the program provides is keeping too many people from returning to work. It will not become law, however. Governor Evers yesterday said he ‘can’t imagine’ signing it.

Chippewa County Public Health is handing out COVID information to every single household in the county.  In a news conference, Public Health Director Angela Weideman says a state grant funded the cost of tens of thousands of flyers that provided the phone number of the health department and vaccine locations.  The department is also sending out letters to people who have received at least one dose, to remind them and encourage them to complete the vaccination series.

It’s the one-year anniversary of a storm that ripped up some Wisconsin roads.  The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says severe storms washed out a twin culvert on state highway-27 between Augusta and Cadott.