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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.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is once again side-stepping the question over government overreach during the coronavirus outbreak. Justice Brian Hagedorn yesterday once again sided with the court’s liberals in upholding Dane County’s ban on indoor crowds. Hagedorn used most of his ruling to scold the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty for taking their challenge to the order directly to the Supreme Court. Hagedorn said the high court is the court of last resort. Conservative Justice Pagie Rogensack, however, said sending the case to

The final price tag for Wisconsin’s presidential recount will be less than three-million-dollars. Clerks and Milwaukee and Dane counties yesterday said they shaved over 300-thousand-dollars off their original estimates. The Wisconsin Elections Commission cut its price tag by another 20-thousand-dollars. Milwaukee’s clerk says the recount took less time than expected. The WEC says it has until mid-January to refund the president.