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Citizens are showing their appreciation for frontline workers. A group of residents and some city officials gathered yesterday at the Eau Claire Transit Transfer Center to thank essential workers driving the buses. The group held up signs and braved the winter weather that was settling in.

You may not know what to do with those old Christmas lights you’ve been waiting to throw out after the holiday. Eau Claire County Recycling says you can bring them to the courthouse until mid-January, and they’ll take care of it for you. They accept strands of holiday lights, electrical cords, appliance cords, and phone cords. They say the bin is outside the building, so you won’t have to go inside.

A Thanksgiving Day stabbing in Eau Claire is now a murder. Prosecutors yesterday upgraded the charges against Kelly Weiberg. Police say he got into a drunken fight with another man on Thanksgiving morning and stabbed him. Investigators say Weiberg remembers the fight but doesn’t remember anything else. Weiberg is due back in court after New Year’s.

Investigators in Eau Claire are looking for a man who they say is at the center of a 2018 overdose death. Police got a warrant yesterday for 55-year-old Roger Minck’s arrest. Court documents say Minck gave Toby Cleasby oxycodone pills just before his death. The documents also allege that Minck broke into his brother’s home and stole things. Eau Claire Police say anyone who knows anything about Minck’s whereabouts should contact them immediately.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus count is down. The state’s Department of Public Health yesterday reported another dip in the state’s seven-day positivity average. That average is now just barely above nine-percent. It was twice that at the beginning of November. DHS yesterday reported 69 new deaths. Wisconsin’s app to track the coronavirus is now live. The state launched the Wisconsin Exposure Notification app yesterday. Governor Evers says it’s the latest tool for the state to try and get a handle on the virus. The

If Wisconsin’s statewide mask order ends, Eau Claire could add an order of its own. Both city and county leaders say they will consider a local mask requirement if Wisconsin’s supreme court strikes down the governor’s mask order. Nothing is expected until next month at the earliest. Eau Claire’s public health managers say wearing a mask is the best way to protect people from the coronavirus.

Wisconsin is looking to test more people at the state’s assisted living homes for the coronavirus. The Department of Health Services yesterday said teams will be extending regular virus testing to community-based residential facilities and adult family homes across the state. DHS says people living in group homes and assisted care facilities are most at risk for the coronavirus.

A pair of lawmakers from the Green Bay area are trying, once again, to overturn the November election results. State Reps David Steffen and Jeff Mursau filed a lawsuit yesterday. They want the Vice President and Congress not to certify election results from states where the legislature has not signed-off on the final vote counts. That would include Wisconsin. Their suit says there is a ‘cabal’ of groups that are seeking to undermine state laws designed to protect elections.

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