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On Tuesday, February 16, 2021 the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a call from a homeowner on the west side of Silver Lake reporting a truck crashed on the shoreline of his property. Deputies from the Sheriff’s Department, along with the WI DNR, were already on the lake searching the area and responded to the scene. Upon arrival, deputies discovered the body of the missing person, Ben Jacobson, deceased along with his truck that crashed into an embankment and brush.

An Algoma woman is facing multiple charges including neglecting a child resulting in death.  Cheyanne Wierichs was arrested yesterday in connection with the death of her seven-month-old baby who drowned in a bathtub after being left unattended.  Authorities say Wierichs was bathing multiple children when she left the room and when she returned her baby was face down in water.  Methamphetamine was found in the house, which adds drug charges to the neglect counts.

Two additional individuals who recently tested positive for COVID- 19 were found to have the variant strain B.1.1.7. This is the strain that was first discovered circulating widely in England during November and December 2020. Researchers believe that this new strain spreads more rapidly and easily than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2. The two individuals are unrelated to one another and to the first case of the variant strain detected in Eau Claire County on January 12, 2021. Their only

Downtown Eau Claire, Inc. (DECI) has awarded Just Local Food Cooperative with a $2,000 Downtown Enhancement Grant to assist in their planned addition of an outdoor walk-in freezer for their store at 1117 S. Farwell Street. With limited space, and a growing clientele, Just Local Food has been facing the challenge of finding enough space for their back-stock storage. The addition of the freezer will help the cooperative sell more meat, seafood, and frozen grocery items and allow expansion to

Tonight’s Bucks game will look and sound much different. Tonight is the first night that fans are being allowed back into the stands. There will likely only be about 250 fans, and they will be spread-out to comply with coronavirus safety rules. But it’s a start. Eventually Fiserv will be able to welcome as many as 18 hundred fans. Though the Bucks say they want to ramp-up to that over the next month or so.

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.