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It’s possible you may see some people wearing ‘I voted’ stickers today. It’s primary election day in Wisconsin to decide the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and some local school board elections. Eau Claire residents can vote in-person at polling places around the city or the City Elections Office at City Hall. All absentee ballots must be received by elections staff before 8 p.m.

An Eau Claire Apple resale store is giving MacBooks and iPads to kids who might need them. MacMan started the Giving Mac program based on donations of used Apple laptops and tablets from the community. The program also accepts money donations to help pay for upgrades or parts to fix the recycled computers and get them to a K-through-12-student who needs one. Students in need who want to apply can do so online.

President Biden hits the road today to push his one-point-nine-trillion-dollar COVID-19 relief plan during a town hall in Milwaukee.  Dean Miuccio has more.

The biggest race on the ballot in Wisconsin is for the state’s next school chief. But that is not the only race. Today is the spring primary election. Voters will narrow the race for state superintendent from seven candidates down to two. There are also special elections for the legislature north of Green Bay and in parts of southeast Wisconsin. Voters will also have a chance to choose school board members in some communities.

Jurors in Barron are listening to the evidence against a woman who police say killed her cheating boyfriend. Melanie Kuula’s trial started yesterday. She’s accused of beating her boyfriend Brian Bents with a skillet and a spatula before stabbing him once in the chest back in 2019. Her lawyers say Kuula walked-in on Bents having sex with another woman.

It’s hard to see any real opposition to the plan to rename one of Green Bay’s bridges for Bart Starr. A couple of Green Bay-area lawmakers are asking to change the Walnut Street Bridge to the Bart Starr Memorial Bridge. Starr, of course, quarterbacked the great Packers teams of the 1960s. He passed away last year at age 85.

Wolf hunters in Wisconsin will have one week to fill their quota. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said wolf season will begin next Monday and run through the following Sunday. This is Wisconsin’s first wolf hunting season since the gray wolf came off the endangered species list last year. DNR says hunters can take 200 wolves in all. CLICK HERE TO HUNT DOWN MORE DETAILS.

The woman who ran La Crosse County’s health department is leaving for a state job. Jennifer Rombalski is heading to the state’s Department of Health Services. She will lead DHS’s Office of Policy & Practice Alignment. She has been the public health chief in La Crosse County for the past five years.

More kids and more local teachers could soon be a part of Eau Claire’s virtual school program. The city’s school board looked at expanding the program last night. The expansion could also mean adding local teachers. Right now, out of district teachers lead the online classes. Virtual school is different from the coronavirus-inspired online learning. Eau Claire’s virtual school program dates back to the fall of 2019 and currently serves 64 students.

More than one-in-ten people in Wisconsin have gotten at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported that just over 12-percent of people in the state have gotten a shot. That translates to just over 715-thousand people with one dose. DHS says over 240-thousand people have gotten both doses. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.