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Frontline healthcare workers in Wisconsin are getting another shot to be some of the only people inside Lambeau Field. The Packers yesterday said they will welcome 450 frontline workers as fans at Sunday night’s game against the Titans. Last week the Packers welcomed 250 frontline workers.

The Wisconsin Health Department is confirming 26-hundred new coronavirus cases and 69 deaths in the last day.  New cases are confirmed in 70 counties.  The 69 deaths raises the number of Wisconsinites killed by COVID-19 to over four-thousand-600. Nationally, health officials continue to warn we still have further downhill to go in the pandemic before it gets better.  Dr. Celine Gounder serves the Biden-Harris transition team COVID advisory board and says the next few weeks will be “horrible.”   She believes vaccine administration needs

If you are interested in helping out a local family and cause, then there is an opportunity nearby! Maybe you have been hearing the new about a home build that is taking place in Mondovi with Partner Family, Brittany and her three children. Things are moving very quickly and Habitat is now seeking some volunteers! Carpentry skills preferred. The early plan is for crews being at the build site December 28th – January 1st. If you’re not available that week, don’t worry!

A chemical incident at a local business in Neenah sends at least three people to the hospital.  A hazmat team was called to the scene at Galloway on Commercial Street between Winneconne and Division this afternoon.  Police evacuated people within a one block radius and the Red Cross set up a shelter at Shattuck school on Elm Street.  Fire officials say a chemical truck unloaded chlorine into the wrong tank and it mixed with acid. 

Dozens of public and nonprofit agencies providing specialized transportation to seniors and people with disabilities are receiving millions of dollars in new funding.  Governor Evers today announced three-point-eight-million-dollars in federal and state funds for 57 agencies.  The projects involve increasing transportation capacity, coordinating transit services and connecting seniors and the disabled to transportation services in their area.

A task force on communicable diseases in Eau Claire is complete. The 19 member board will begin meetings in January. City Council President Terry Weld says public hearings will be held in the winter and spring. The task force will bring their recommendations to the Eau Claire City-County board in June 2021.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is launching a new COVID exposure notification app today. The app will alert people if they have been in contact with someone or are near someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19. The app will also send notifications to others if you test positive for COVID-19. The department says the app does not store or collect physical locations or personal information.

The sheriff in Clark County is asking for help in looking for a woman who’s been missing for months. Cassandra Ayon’s friends and family haven’t seen her since October 3rd, and they are worried. The sheriff’s office is asking about a red SUV that was seen near the trailer park where Ayon was last seen. Her pictures are online. Deputies say anyone who knows anything about Ayon’s whereabouts should contact them immediately.

Another day, another number that shows that coronavirus positives in Wisconsin are falling. The state’s Department of Health Services’ numbers show positives have fallen nearly 70-percent since last month’s peak.  On November 18th, DHS reported the state’s week-long average was nearly eight-thousand positives. Yesterday, that seven-day average fell to just over 26-hundred. DHS is reporting drops in positives in every single age group in the state. However, at the same time that we are seeing those numbers drop, there are the people

Add this to the coronavirus price tag for the University of Wisconsin. A new audit says the university paid nearly 70-million-dollars in refunds to students after campuses closed last March. The exact price tag came to 68-point-five-million dollars and is for refunds for housing and food. Students did not get tuition money back because they were taking classes online.