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Memorial High and North High Band Students to Thank Local Hospital Staff with Parking Lot Outdoor Holiday Performances. The sounds are slated to fill the air on Monday, December 14, as members of the North and Memorial bands will perform in the parking lots of Marshfield Medical Center, Sacred Heart Hospital and Mayo Clinic Health System to show support for staff and patients during this unprecedented time. Outdoor, socially distanced and masked performances will take place on the following schedule:

Tomorrow is the last chance for residents across the Chippewa Valley to weigh in on the status of public health. The Eau Claire and Chippewa County health departments released an online survey asking about top health concerns in the communities. The survey can be found on the Eau Claire city website. 

The Northern Lights were visible in Eau Claire last night. The National Weather Service Space Weather Prediction Center says the lights could be visible for the next few nights. A geomagnetic storm from outer space is clashing with Earth’s atmosphere causing shafts of colored light to be visible in the night sky across the Midwest. The center says the best time to see the lights is between 11 p.m. and 1 a.m.

Wisconsin’s National Guard commanders say they will continue searching for a missing F-16 pilot. The guard yesterday said it did not find the pilot who was in the fighter plane that went down in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Tuesday night. The sheriff in the area where the plane went down said it is rough terrain and there is no cell service. Guard commanders say they are searching the forest and parts of Lake Michigan. There is no word on what

It’s homicide charges for the Minnesota man accused of a deadly stabbing last weekend in Hudson. The D.A. in St. Croix County yesterday filed formal charges against William Davidson Jr. Police say he was the main aggressor in a fight last Saturday that ended with Cain Solheim’s stabbing death. Solheim was one of two people stabbed in the fight, but the other victim survived. Davidson is looking at a life sentence if convicted.

Eau Claire is on the list of communities in Wisconsin to get healthcare workers from the Army. The Department of Defense yesterday said it is sending 45 workers to Marshfield Medical Center facilities in Eau Claire, Rice Lake, Marshfield and Beaver Dam. The hope is to help take some of the pressure off overworked local staff.

The Coronavirus cases in our state seem to be holding steady. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 36 hundred new coronavirus positives and 81 new deaths. But overall, Wisconsin’s positivity numbers are going down. The state’s seven-day positivity rate is now below 13 percent. DHS managers and Governor Evers warned that the coronavirus numbers would spike after Thanksgiving, and as of now the data isn’t showing that happening.

It is still flu season. Eau Claire’s public health director Lieske Giese says even with the coronavirus still spreading, people in the Chippewa Valley need to be protected from the flu. Her office handed-out free flu shots for younger people last night at North High School. Giese says it is as important as ever to protect yourself this year.

Environmental justice is at the center of Wisconsin’s latest climate change report. The state’s Climate Change Task Force released its report yesterday. It makes many of the same recommendations that climate change activists have made in the past: a lower carbon footprint and more electric cars. But the report also focuses heavily on the idea of environmental justice. Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who led the task force, wants to create a new state Office of Environmental Justice and study the racial

Wisconsin Health officials are confirming over 36-hundred new positive COVID-19 cases statewide today.  More than 422-thousand cases have been confirmed in the Badger State since the beginning of the pandemic.  An additional 81 deaths were reported today bringing the death toll from the coronavirus to nearly three-thousand-900.