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The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is giving away a Chippewa County bridge for free. Cobban Bridge near Jim Falls is over 100-years old. The department says anyone who can move it from its spot over the Chippewa River and maintain it as a historic structure can have it for free. They say a new bridge will go up at the same location in 2022. 

Tickets are on sale now for a campout music festival in Eau Claire at the end of the month. Blue Ox Music Festival is hosting Campout in the Pines: September Edition, the 24th through the 26th. Organizers say it’s a socially distanced event with live music featuring two nights of the Yonder Mountain String Band. Tickets can be found at blue-ox-music-festival-dot-com.

The Strong National Museum of Play is considering twelve toys, both new and old, for a spot in its National Toy Hall of Fame.  Toys such as Bingo, My Little Pony, and Tamagotchi are all finalists.  Among the finalists is Shindana Toys’ 1986 Baby Nancy.  The New York museum says the success of the release of the Black baby doll with textured hair exposed a “long-standing demand for ethnically correct Black dolls” which “the mainstream market had failed to deliver

One hundred of the nearly 200 people who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus this month in Eau Claire County are tied to UW Eau Claire. The city-county health department yesterday said half of the new coronavirus positives are either students or faculty members. City-County Health Department Director Lieske Giese says it’s not surprising that more people are testing positive, nor is it surprising that more people are testing positive at the school. UW-Eau Claire on Tuesday said just about one

The troops are leaving Kenosha. The Wisconsin National Guard yesterday said it has concluded its mission in the city. As many as 500 Wisconsin troops, along with soldiers from Arizona, Alabama and Michigan, were deployed to Kenosha to help keep the peace after Jacob Blake’s shooting. Guard commanders say the troops did their jobs, and can now go home.

In-person classes at UW Madison lasted one week. Chancellor Rebecca Blank yesterday said the school is moving all classes online, starting next week. Blank on Monday told undergraduate students they could only leave their dorms or apartments for class, or work, or to get food. Now she is saying in-person classes are too much of a risk. Blank is asking students not to go home this weekend or during the two-weeks of online classes. UW-Madison yesterday said just over one

More than a half-million people in Wisconsin are waiting on the state’s jobless office. The Department of Workforce Development yesterday said 693-thousand jobless claims are still being processed. Some of those claims date all the way back to March. Lawmakers in Madison say no one in the state should have to wait months for their unemployment benefits. DWD is not offering an explanation for the delay, but has in the past blamed the backlog on outdated computers and a flood of jobless

The Brewers have new uniforms, so the state of Wisconsin is getting new Brewers license plates. The state’s Department of Transportation debuted the plates yesterday. They include a new iconic ball and glove plate, and a cream colored plate with a state of Wisconsin design on it. The specialty plates cost an extra 40 dollars, and can be personalized for 15 dollars more. You can order the plates online.

The presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is tightening in Wisconsin.  The latest Marquette University Law School Poll released today shows Vice President Biden with 47-percent support among likely voters in Wisconsin compared to 43-percent for Donald Trump.  That difference is within the four-point-three margin of error.  For the first time the Marquette Poll included Libertarian candidate Jay Jorgensen who garnered four-percent support.

A Hayward man is enjoying a boost to his bank account. Bradley Madison of Hayward’s recent housecleaning really paid off. After selling a canoe he no longer used, Madison used the cash from the sale to try his luck on some Wisconsin Lottery scratch tickets and Madison’s Supreme ticket happened to be one of the lucky top prize winners worth $1 Million.   Holiday Station Store (10478 State Rd. 27) in Hayward sold the winning ticket.