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A virtual, school-sponsored suicide prevention workshop for families is being held on Monday night. The Eau Claire Area School District holds workshops once a month in part of it’s ‘Here for You’ series. The workshop is Monday, April 12th from 6:30 to 7:15 p.m. A virtual meeting link is up on the district’s Facebook page, which you can find with a CLICK HERE.

State Senator Kathy Bernier (R-Lake Hallie) and Representative Donna Rozar (R-Marshfield) introduced a bill to name Colby cheese Wisconsin’s State Cheese. The authors issued the following statement upon introduction: “We are thrilled to introduce this bill to honor Colby cheese as Wisconsin’s State Cheese. Colby began as a farm family recipe dreamed up by a young man on the floor of his father’s small wooden cheese factory. Today, it has gone on to become world-famous and one of America’s most

The Chippewa County seasonal weight restrictions will be removed next Thursday (4-15-21).   To see more about these updates, CLICK HERE.

Everyone is keeping their spot-on Eau Claire’s city council and school board. Voters re-elected all of the incumbents yesterday. Five members of the city council won re-election, as did three members of the school board. The county clerk’s office says just under 19 percent of registered voters cast a ballot yesterday.

Democrats will remain in control of Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction. Jill Underly won yesterday’s election for state superintendent. She beat Republican Deb Kerr for the officially non-partisan race. Underly attracted almost a million-dollars in outside political money during her race. She was the choice of Wisconsin’s teachers’ unions. Kerr’s campaign was plagued by missteps and a distinct disadvantage in fundraising. When it comes to returning to classes, currently Wisconsin’s state superintendent says her office is providing schools with guidance about how

Wisconsin Republicans held on to their majority at the State Capitol by winning two seats in special elections yesterday. Republican John Jagler won the Senate seat that used to belong to Scott Fitzgerald in southeastern Wisconsin, and Elijah Behnke won the Assembly seat north of Green Bay that used to belong to John Nygren. Both men were expected to win. The victories mean the Republican majorities in the state legislature will not change.

Southeast Wisconsin is sending a conservative to the bench on the state’s appeals court. Judge Shelley Grogan easily beat Tony Evers-appointee Jeff Davis in yesterday’s election for the Second District Court of Appeals. Grogan clerks for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and is a municipal judge in Muskego. Davis was serving out the last of Brian Hagedorn’s seat on the appellate court. The second district seat covers all of southeast Wisconsin, with the exception of Milwaukee.

Two men are looking at homicide charges for their roles in an overdose death in Eau Claire last December. The D.A. yesterday filed reckless homicide charges against 19-year-old Noah Beckstead and 33-year-old Trenton Wik. Beckstead said he and the man who died bought what they thought was heroin from Wik. It turned out to be fentanyl.

Folks in Chippewa Falls want to continue to pick their own garbage company . Voters yesterday overwhelmingly said ‘No’ to a plan to hire a single company to handle all of the city’s trash. Sixty six percent of voters, or about a thousand people, said they want to keep things the way they are.

Most of Wisconsin’s 53 million-dollars for coronavirus awareness will be spent in the state’s underserved communities. The CDC yesterday awarded Wisconsin the money. The idea is to encourage more people to get the vaccine. More than a third of people in Wisconsin have already gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. But state health managers say many of those people are older and white. They’d like to see other groups in the state get vaccinated as well.