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No matter if your dream vacation includes a bottle of wine, casting a line, or atv-ing in the sunshine, Chippewa has you covered. All are open starting May 1 and you can CLICK HERE for more events and openings in our area.

Netflix is announcing a new feature called “play something” that will allow viewers to shuffle through suggested movies and TV shows.  Subscribers are shown a film or show that was picked based on the Netflix algorithm.  If it doesn’t look interesting, users can click “play something else” and get a new recommendation.  Netflix plans to roll out the feature for TVs first and then it will start testing for mobile devices.

A woman in Fall Creek is accused of stealing money from someone with intellectual disabilities. A criminal complaint shows Michelle Eisold was accused of stealing 60-thousand dollars from the victim in total. The victim told investigators on one occasion Eisold asked to borrow 46-thousand-dollars to buy new vans for her taxi service in Chippewa Falls. Eisold told police the money was a gift. She’s due in court in May.

Hy-Vee is now offering walk-in COVID-19 shots in Wisconsin. The company’s website says vaccines are available at all Hy-Vee Pharmacies, no appointment necessary. It’s offering all three available vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson. HyVee is asking people to bring a photo I-D and wear a mask.

Chippewa Falls police are holding a K-9 fundraising raffle. Tickets are being sold at 100-dollars each through the summer. Only 100-tickets will be sold. The grand prize winner could get 25-hundred-dollars. Tickets can be purchased at the police department.

The public is being informed of a sex offender being released and living in the area. 43 year old Leo Lacy is convicted of 2 counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault – Will County Illinois Per his release plan, Lacy will now be living at S15554 Williams Road, Strum. Lacy served a 9-year sentence in an Illinois prison, his victim was an adult female, and he is being released to live with family. Lacy’s release requirements include:• lifetime registration as

Eau Claire is going to lose money collecting yard scraps, even with higher fees. The city council last night agreed to take over brush collections this year. It will cost 116-thousand-dollars to run the program for 30 weeks. Community Services Director Renee Tyler says the city expects to lose about 50-thousand-dollars in the process. You’re going to have to pay a bit more for collections as bag fees are going up 50 cents to a dollar-per-bag. You can also buy

Students and faculty members at UW-Eau Claire are going to have to keep wearing their masks, despite what the CDC says. The university yesterday said it is not changing its mask policy as of now. The CDC yesterday said anyone who is fully vaccinated can ditch their mask in most outdoor settings. The university requires everyone on campus to wear masks, both inside buildings and on the rest of the campus. UW-Eau Claire’s Mike Knuth says they are ‘reviewing’ the

We will take a look at the public health picture here in Wisconsin. Nearly two million people in Wisconsin are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Human Services says just over 600 of them have tested positive for COVID. DHS released the numbers on post-vaccination positives yesterday. The 605 positives amount to point-zero-three percent of all people who are fully vaccinated in the state. Doctors say the numbers are expected, they say no vaccine is 100 percent effective. CLICK

Police officers, firefighters, and other first responders in Wisconsin will now have a much easier path to workers’ compensation for PTSD. Governor Tony Evers yesterday signed a new law that eliminates the requirement that first responders prove their PTSD came from ‘unusual stress’ on the job. The new law simply requires that first responders be diagnosed with PTSD to qualify. Benefits will last for 32 weeks, and the new law caps first responders to three claims during their entire career.