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Governor Tony Evers says he’ll be extending the COVID-19 mask mandate again once the current one expires.  The Governor made the statement Friday during at an event in Manitowoc.  The Governor said that it is still his view which he claims is based on science is that, “At the end of the day, it is important that people wear a mask.”  The current mask mandate is supposed to expire March 20th.

The Center for Black Excellence and Culture project in Madison moves forward.  Organizers say the effort now has the participation of the prestigious Lord Cultural Resources for Business Planning.  The group was instrumental in setting up the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.  The new center in Madison is intended to celebrate Black culture and history.  The new center should be ready sometime in 2023. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

 A small plane makes an emergency landing on a road in Baraboo.  The incident happened yesterday afternoon when the single engine plane landed on Highway 136.  It so happens that at the time, the portion of the road used for the landing was closed due to nearby bridge construction. The pilot, Michigander Joseph Fullerton says he had a fuel line issue which led to the emergency landing.  There are no reports of injuries.  A tree branch damaged one wing.

Hello. Welcome to your day. We are glad you are here. The week’s can sometimes seem long and stressful, which is why we like to start Saturday’s on a lighter note. This is a little “scroll down memory lane” to look back at some of the events along the pages of history that have lead us here to this March 6th. A mini history adventure to start your weekend. Let’s see where the trip takes us! Today is Saturday, March

Wisconsin’s COVID-19 vaccination program is one of the tops in the nation. WKOW reported yesterday that University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Ajay Sethi says the state is number three in the country with the percentage of vaccine received to that which is actually administered.  Sethi says Wisconsin is administering around 85-percent of doses received.  Madison takes its first delivery of the Johnson and Johnson COVID single dose vaccine.  Nearly 12-thousand doses arrived at the Public Health Madison and Dane County offices Friday.  The doses

A minimum wage hike will not be part of the coronavirus relief package.  The Senate voted not to add a 15-dollar-an-hour minimum wage as an amendment to the bill.  The vote came after the Senate parliamentarian ruled it couldn’t be included in the bill.  The one-point-nine-trillion-dollar measure is still being debated in the Senate. As the debate continues, President Biden is backing the Senate’s compromise on unemployment benefits.  In a statement, White House press secretary Jen Psaki explained Biden supports

State health officials are reporting 350 new COVID-19 cases statewide over the last 24 hours.  There were 677 new cases reported yesterday and 539 on Wednesday.  The daily death toll has consistently dropped this week as well, with seven deaths reported today compared to 12 yesterday and 18 on Wednesday.  Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago there have been over 566-thousand coronavirus cases and more than 64-hundred deaths. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. Governor Tony

The DNR is reminding fisherman that ice shanties south of Highway 64 must be removed this weekend.  DNR officials say shanties located north of Highway 64 can stay on the ice until Sunday, March 14th.  Portable shanties are still allowed, but with warmer weather approaching the ice is not as thick and may not support an adult’s weigh. 

Gas prices are inching up across the Badger State.  Triple-A says the average price at the pump today is two-64 for a gallon of regular gas.  That’s just a couple of cents higher than last Friday but is 34-cents more a gallon than a month ago.  The national average is 2.75 a gallon today.  Drivers are paying 2.71 in Eau Claire, 2.63 in Green Bay, Racine and Oshkosh and 2.60 in Madison, Janesville, Sheboygan and Kenosha County.

Today marks the Wisconsin National Guard’s 184th birthday, and year 183 was certainly one for the history books. The Wisconsin National Guard’s official birthday is March 5, 1837 – the date on which Wisconsin’s territorial Gov. Henry Dodge commissioned Morgan L. Martin, of Green Bay, Wisconsin, as a captain and the commander of the Green Bay Rangers volunteer company of mounted riflemen. The creation of the Green Bay Rangers predated Wisconsin statehood by 11 years, and the new militia had