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 Badgers fans are about to be treated to a Dream Season online event.  The Badgers and Big Ten Network are teaming up to offer the Dream Season online presentation from September 19 through December 5.   The shows will be streamed on UWBadgers-dot-Com and the Wisconsin Football Facebook page.  The shows feature the most noteworthy 12 victories in Badgers football history along with performances by the UW Marching Band, commentary from Matt Lepay and Mike Lucas and more.  When it comes to play

Hello, and welcome to your weekend. Each Saturday morning we start the day with a “scroll down memory lane” to see what this day has brought us in years past. So, relax and sip from your cup as we fill up on some details about September 12th from the pages of history. Today is Saturday, September 12th, the 256th day of the year.  There are 110 days until the end of the year. On this day: In 1919, Adolf Hitler

President Trump and Vice President Pence plan on making separate visits to Wisconsin this coming week.  Yesterday, we got word that President will be in Mosinee Friday, September 18 for a rally and speaking engagements.  His re-election campaign says the Mosinee evening stopover is open to the public at Central Wisconsin Aviation.  Mike Pence will speak in Janesville this Monday although the full details are pending.

Absentee ballots in Wisconsin are being temporarily halted one week before the deadline for them to be sent by mail. Brian Shook has more.

Nearly two-dozen fraternities and sororities at the University of Wisconsin Madison are under a COVID-19 quarantine. WISC reported yesterday that health officials in Madison and Dane County along with those at the school have placed 22-greek life houses under quarantine for the next 14-days.  Each chapter house involved has at least one member who tested positive for the disease.

Chippewa County Department of Public Health, with assistance from the Wisconsin National Guard, will provide free COVID-19 nasal swab testing on Wednesday, September 16, 2020 from 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM. The event, which is open to the public, will have drive-through and walk-up style testing at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds (225 Edward Street, Chippewa Falls, WI, 54729). Community members do not need to be experiencing symptoms to be tested. However, it is strongly encouraged that anyone who is experiencing symptoms

 Two Wisconsin National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters and approximately 15 Soldiers are en route to California to assist the California National Guard as it battles wildfires raging across the state. The aircraft, along with crews and maintenance personnel from the Madison-based 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation, departed Madison for California today after Wisconsin received an Emergency Management Assistance Compact – or EMAC – request from California. The California National Guard is serving in support of the California Department of Forestry

Governor Tony Evers says today is a day to pay tribute to those who lost their lives on 9/11, but also the survivors and their families.  The governor today said there are countless heroes from that day including first responders and volunteers.  Evers says as a remembrance, today is a State Day of Service.  He is asking people to pay it forward with an act of kindness in their neighborhood.

A statewide SILVER Alert is issued for a 70-year-old man who experiences significant memory loss.  Donald Milroy is an Illinois man last known to be in Fond du Lac County this morning.  He is from Pecatonica, Illinois about 150 miles southwest of Fond du Lac County.  Milroy is a white male, 70-years-old about five-foot-eleven and 150 pounds.  He has blue eyes and gray hair and anyone who may know his whereabouts is urged to call police immediately.

The average cost of regular gas in Wisconsin is down four-cents-a-gallon compared to a week ago and is 19-cents lower than the national average.  Triple-A says the price per gallon in the Badger State is $2.01 today.  Drivers are paying 2.20 nationwide.