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Spectators will soon be allowed at Hobbs Ice Arena during games. The Eau Claire Youth Hockey Association posted on its website that they were given the approval from city leadership and the health department to move into Phase-2 protocols. Starting tomorrow, spectators are limited to two-adults per player for each home and away game. Teams are limited to 15-players with one coach on the bench. 

Dogs are coming back to the White House, for the first time in four years.   President-elect Joe Biden and soon-to-be First Lady Jill Biden will bring their German shepherds, Champ and Major, with them when they move into the executive mansion.  The Bidens adopted Major from the Delaware Humane Association, making him the first rescue Dog to live in the White House.  President Trump was the first president in more than a century not to have a pet. 

It is a day that has been part of American history since the beginning. Inauguration Day. But, it will not look the same as events in the past. Today’s inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly be the most secure event in U.S. history.  Over 20-thousand National Guard members are positioned throughout Washington, DC, after the FBI warned of threats in the city following the Capitol riot earlier this month.  The Secret Service has expanded the restricted area for drivers,

One of the two men accused of a double murder in Rusk County is trying a mental illness defense. Joseph Falk was in court yesterday and changed his plea to not guilty by mental disease or defect. The judge in the case ordered an evaluation. Falk, Adam Rosolowski, and an unnamed 16-year-old are charged with killing Rosolowski’s grandparents back in June.

Dairymen in Wisconsin want lawmakers in the state to declare that milk is milk. The state’s Dairy Business Association yesterday released its priorities for the 2021 legislative session. Environmental regulations are at the top of the list. DBA President Amy Penterman says there needs to be a balance. But the group also wants a truth in labeling law. The dairymen want to be clear between milk, ice cream, and cheese that come from cows or goats and things that are called milk,

Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine count is adding-up. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said more than 40-thousand people in the state have been fully vaccinated. In all, doctors and nurses have given-out over 248-thousand doses. Wisconsin has been sent 473-thousand doses, and promised over 300- thousand more. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said starting next week, anyone 65-years old and older will be eligible to get the vaccine. DHS’s Julie Willems Van Dijk,

They call it gavel-and-go.  Wisconsin lawmakers spent less than half an hour dealing with Governor Evers’ ordered special session on unemployment yesterday. The governor called lawmakers to Madison to approve five-million-dollars to begin the process of replacing the outdated computers at the Department of Workforce Development. The governor blames those computers for the backlog that had hundreds of thousands of people in the state waiting months to get their unemployment benefits. Lawmakers say the governor has had 10 months to deal

Eau Claire County leaders are waiting on a local mask requirement. The county board last night decided not to vote on a mandate that covers the entire county.  Instead, the county is pushing the vote back and will look at it again next month. Governor Evers extended the statewide mask mandate yesterday. Eau Claire County’s requirement would only take effect if a court struck down the governor’s statewide order. When it coms to the state order, Governor Tony Evers yesterday

Today ushers in a week of palindrome dates, dates that can be read the same backwards and forwards in the system used in the U.S.  It’s 1-20-21, and a week later it’ll be 1-29-21.  It will be the first Inauguration Day in U.S. history that falls on a palindrome date.  The next series of these dates will start December 1st.  There are only two years where this can happen in a century, those ending in 11 and 21. 

President Trump is wishing the best for the incoming Biden-Harris administration in his final address to the nation.  Trump said his administration embarked on a mission to “make America great again” and he believes they accomplished that and so much more.  He said serving as the President has been “an honor beyond description” and an extraordinary privilege.  Trump said, as he prepares to hand power over to a new administration, he wants his supporters to know that the movement they