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A local steel bridge fabricator that does work all across the nation is sending the last piece of a bridge to Washington D.C after 18 months of manufacturing on Friday. “I have worked at Veritas Steel for almost 31 years now, and the most interesting project I have worked one is the New Fredrick Douglass Memorial Bridge. It was the most complex bridge I have seen here and was a nice challenge,” said Gary Connell, Welding Fabricator at Veritas Steel.

A new report shows milk sales are up nationwide. Experts say more people are buying milk to cook and use at home. According to Neilsen data, U.S. milk sales were up eight-percent from this time last year. Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin say milk sales are up 10-percent.

Parks, Recreation, and Forestry is offering Water Safety Packs to EauClaire families. These packs include complimentary life jackets and are presented tofamilies through the generosity of community donations, activity funding, and the creativity of the recreation team, making sure the fun doesn’t dry up this summer! Water Safety Packs will be distributed, on Friday, August 7 from 3-5pm at Fairfax Pool while supplies last. Lifejacket sizes remaining are: child 30-50 pounds, youth 50-90 pounds, and adult XL.

A fourth person has died from COVID-19 in Eau Claire County. The Eau Claire City-County Health Department announced the death in a news conference yesterday. Director Lieske Giese said the fourth death was reported on the state website yesterday. She says the person was under 65-years-old, and they’re waiting to get more information. Giese said there have been an increasing number of double-digit counts of positive test results in recent days. This is the first person to die from coronavirus

Eau Claire students will be learning about solar energy this year. The Eau Claire School Board voted to approve a donation of around 360 solar panels Monday night. The solar panels will be installed at both North and Memorial High Schools with no cost to the district. The Public Schools Foundation said the panels will be introduced into their STEM curriculum to help students learn about environmental engineering. The school board said they hope to have them installed by October. 

A recent Chippewa Falls High School graduate is interning with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. If you happen to be paging through the Chippewa Herald, then you likely saw that 18-year-old Mitchell Haglund is a junior engineering student at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He’s interning as a pathways engineer with NASA through a program out of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Haglund told the Herald his responsibilities include working on the Roman solar system telescope satellite antenna that

Every time we think Cheetos is going to run out of ideas on how to absolutely run the world, they go ahead and surprise people and create something EVEN BETTER than what they did last. Case in point? The brand is launching mac & cheese inspired by Cheetos and lunch is about to change forever. This news was first posted by Instagrammer @Candyhunting who said the product is out now in three different flavors: Bold & Cheesy, Flamin’ Hot, and

Wisconsin’s coronavirus testing has now stretched into seven-figures. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said Wisconsin has now tested more than one million people for the virus. Of them, over 94 percent have tested negative. Since March less than 57 thousand people have tested positive, and over 80 percent of them have fully recovered. DHS yesterday said 330 people are in the hospital with the virus, 119 of them are in the ICU. Here, local authorities remind you that you shouldn’t

Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is no longer traveling to Milwaukee to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention to protect public health.  NBC’s Mike Memoli has the latest. Biden will instead address the nation and accept the Democratic nomination from his home state of Delaware.  In a press release, the DNC Committee said the decision was made “in order to prevent risking the health of our host community” as well as others necessary to orchestrate the

The rules for school buses in Eau Claire County are changing because of the coronavirus. Eau Claire County Health Director Lieske Giese yesterday ordered that bus drivers assign kids seats, and take attendance each day. The hope is to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Giese also issued an order that requires face masks on city buses, and limited their capacity to just 50 percent.