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High school band students are giving thanks to healthcare workers as the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine arrive in Eau Claire. The Eau Claire Memorial High School band played for healthcare workers at several local hospitals Monday night. The Memorial High School Band Program posted videos of some performances on its Facebook page. 

The Chippewa Falls Police Department Alumni Association’s Back the Blue campaign is closing in on its goal. The association posted to Facebook saying Leinenkugel’s  Brewing Company donated one-thousand dollars to the campaign and Pederson-Volker Funeral Chapel matched the donation yesterday. The goal is to donate ten-thousand-dollars to the Chippewa Falls Police Department by Christmas.

The former teacher accused in a child pornography case is out of jail. A judge yesterday allowed Todd Williams to sign a five-thousand-dollar signature bond to get out of jail. Prosecutors say Williams had dozens of images of child porn on his computer. He’s been let go at Eau Claire North, and the judge ordered him to not have any contact with young people or children.

The first healthcare workers in the Chippewa Valley have received their coronavirus shot. Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire said they received just under three-thousand doses yesterday. The vaccine will go to frontline healthcare workers first, then people living in long-term care facilities. Mayo’s Dr. Andrew Badley says it will likely be April before the vaccine will become available to the general public. Here in our state, nearly 90-percent of the people who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus in Wisconsin have

Thanks to virtual learning, school kids in Eau Claire won’t miss any classes this winter. The city’s school board last night announced the district will not take any snow days this winter. Instead, kids will learn from home if it is too snowy to come to school. Superintendent Michael Johnson says not only will learning from home on snow days help kids keep up, it will avoid adding days to the end of the school year.

Wisconsin’s largest dairy group is joining with a group of conservationists and environmentalists to look at clean water. The state’s Dairy Business Association yesterday signed-on to an agreement with Clean Wisconsin, The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association. The DBA says farmers want to find a way to project clean water in the state and have decided to work toward a solution. Most of the focus will be on well water in rural parts of the state, particularly finding

A new report blames Wisconsin’s tuition freeze for all manners of financial challenges at the University of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Policy Forum says the state’s seven-year-old tuition freeze is good for students, but hurts the university by choking-off a stream of new dollars. The Policy Forum also says UW Madison is slipping as a research institution, and that campus buildings have fallen behind. The group Badgers United is using the report to suggest a tuition increase, more money for the

Just because Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the November election doesn’t mean Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson doesn’t want answers about last month’s election. Johnson yesterday told the Journal Sentinel that he has questions about “election irregularities.” Johnson will lead a hearing in Washington D.C. into those questions later today. Johnson says he wants to know what fraud occurred, and how Congress or the states can get a handle on that fraud.

There is a new Christmas Tree at the Wisconsin Capitol. State Rep. Paul Tittl and state Rep. Shae Sortwell yesterday replaced the tree they originally put in the Capitol Rotunda. Capitol Police removed that tree, saying the lawmakers did not have a permit to display the tree. Tittl and Sortwell say the new tree is their form of peaceful protest. Governor Evers closed the Capitol this year, and ordered that the state’s Capitol tree not be put on display.

The location and schedule of the two National Guard COVID-19 test sitesin Eau Claire County have been changed to reflect their winter hours. These sites are located in the City of Eau Claire and Augusta. These sites are free of cost to residents across northwestern Wisconsin and the test kits atthese sites use the less invasive nasal swab. Both of these testing sites are staffed by members of the Wisconsin National Guard. NW WI Regional National Guard Testing Site  Peace