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Voters in Black River Falls are being asked to raise their taxes for school improvements. The school district is asking voters to approve the second phase of a school improvement referendum. The total cost would be 23 million-dollars. Superintendent Shelly Severson says most of the work will go toward a new boiler, new roofs, and new windows.

UW-Madison says the choice is either furloughs or layoffs. Chancellor Rebecca Blank yesterday told 21 thousand university employees that she is choosing to furlough them in order to avoid dramatic cuts. Blank said there will be some cuts at the university, those will be announced in the next few weeks. UW-Madison is trying to recover from a 100 million-dollar-hit last spring because of the coronavirus. Blank says the furloughs will last through the first six months of next year.

Milwaukee’s medical examiner yesterday said 2020 is the deadliest year in the city’s history. The M.E. yesterday said two weekend homicides pushed Milwaukee’s total for the year to 174. That is more than the previous deadliest year, which was 1993. The medical examiner says homicides are up 70 percent from last year, and adds that Milwaukee could possibly see 220 killings before the year is over.

The push to recall Governor Tony Evers has failed. The woman who organized the effort, Misty Polewczynski, said on Facebook yesterday that they don’t have enough signatures to force the governor into a recall election. She needed 670 thousand, she did not say just how many signatures she got. Polewczynski started the push to recall the governor because of how he handled this summer’s violence in Kenosha and how he’s handled the coronavirus for the past several months.

The Sawyer County Health Department reported two COVID-19 deaths of county residents this weekend. This brings the number of COVID-19 related deaths to three. The county’s first death was reported September 9. The individuals, a man and a woman, were both over 60. Each had underlying but non-life-threatening health conditions before contracting COVID-19 and their deaths were due to virus-associated complications. To protect the families’ privacy, no further information about these patients will be released.  The Sawyer County Health Department

On Sunday, October 25th, a bit before 6A.M. the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office responded to a fire. The location was E17210 Scenic Drive in the town of Ludington. It was reported that the fire was located at an auto sales business with a male possibly trapped in a structure. Initial attempts by law enforcement and fire personnel to locate the male occupant were unsuccessful. The victim was later recovered from the scene and has been identified as 54 year

The Fairchild Police Department is hosting an  informational Community Meeting regarding  placement of two SORT offenders that will be  residing in the Fairchild area on Thursday,  October 29, 2020 at 6:30 PM at the Fairchild  Fire Department. The meeting is to hear  about Ch980 housing requirements, offender  supervision and to hear questions and  concerns from the community so that all  involved can better understand each other.  Representatives from the WI Department of  Corrections and the WI Department of  Health Services

The number of coronavirus patients admitted to hospitals is a little lower over the last two days.  Health officials today say 84 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in the last 24 hours in Wisconsin.  Ninety-five were hospitalized yesterday and 199 new hospitalizations were recorded on Saturday.  Ten additional deaths due to COVID-19 reported today brings the number of Wisconsinites killed by the coronavirus to nearly 18-hundred. Locally, a number of cases are reported in the Chippewa Valley including a new daily records

Vice President Joe Biden is widening his lead over President Trump in Wisconsin.  A new University of Wisconsin poll of likely voters today shows Biden ahead in the Badger State, Michigan and Pennsylvania.  The Democratic challenger has doubled his lead in Wisconsin from four points to nine points since September.  The poll indicates Biden’s additional edge is coming from undecided voters and those considering a third-party candidate. When it comes to voting in our state, Attorney General Josh Kaul says he joins all of America’s

Gummy Bears are coming to Madison.  Governor Tony Evers announced today that the Haribo candy company is building its first U.S. production plant in Pleasant Prairie. The 300-million-dollar production campus is being built along I-94 in Kenosha County and is the largest project in the company’s 100-year history.  Nearly 400 jobs are expected to be created.