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Nate Stanley’s football dream is not over. The former Menomonie High School star made the Minnesota Vikings’ practice squad. The Vikings over the weekend released Stanely on waivers, then re-signed him almost immediately.

Kamala Harris will travel to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for Labor Day.  Senator Harris will tour an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Training Facility and speak with IBEW members and Wisconsin labor leadership. Following the tour, Senator Harris will attend a roundtable with Black Milwaukee business owners entitled “Build Back Better.”  At the roundtable, Senator Harris will discuss how a Biden-Harris administration would advance racial equity as part of our nation’s economic recovery. 

The University of Wisconsin Madison’s student government wants learning to be online from home.  News Three Now reported yesterday that the Associated Students of Madison group is calling on school officials not to open up campus for classroom instruction due to COVID-19 concerns.  The students want all classes to revert to online instruction only.  They want dorms to have a reduced population and mandatory COVID-19 tests for everyone prior to attending events. ASM spokesperson Katie McGlasson says students weren’t consulted before UW

Hello, and welcome to your Labor Day weekend. Usually we consider this the “last gasp of Summer.” Every Saturday we take a peek into the calendar pages before us and a little scroll down memory lane to see what this day has brought in the past. So, sit, sip, scroll, and get your new day started with some moments from time. Today is Saturday, September 5th, the 249th day of the year.  There are 118 days until the end of

 A person is dead from eastern equine encephalitis or EEE.   Wisconsin and Chippewa County health officials yesterday said it is the first such death recorded in the state this year.  The virus causes brain inflammation.  It is spread to horses, other mammals and more rarely to humans via the bite of an infected mosquito.  Health officials say horses in three northwestern Wisconsin counties have been diagnosed with the disease.

Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris is planning a trip to Wisconsin.  Harris is scheduled to make a campaign stop in Milwaukee on Monday.  Vice President Mike Pence is also in the Badger State on Monday to visit Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse.

Jacob Blake appears at a bond hearing from his hospital bed in Kenosha.  Blake was shot by police last month and had a virtual hearing today regarding a separate case from July.  He appeared before the judge where a signature bond of ten-thousand-dollars was set.  Blake was also ordered not to have contact with the victim who alleges he committed a sexual assault.

Chippewa Valley Regional Airport in Eau Claire is among those airports receiving an Airport Safety and Infrastructure Grant through the FAA.  Over a-billion-dollars in federal funding was announced this week for airports around the country including Chippewa Valley Regional.  It receives nearly two-million-dollars to acquire snow removal equipment.  Five-point-seven-million-dollars will be used at Trux Field to build a taxiway and Central Wisconsin Airport will receive over 16-million-dollars to reconstruct a taxiway and runway.

Members of nine fraternities and sororities testing positive for COVID-19 prompt the University of Wisconsin-Madison to order a quarantine.  Those members must quarantine at their off-campus houses.  Other members will be tested on September 8th as a precaution.  A violation of isolation of quarantine may result in a fine up to ten-thousand-dollars.

The average cost of regular gas in Wisconsin is down six-cents-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the price per gallon in the Badger State is $2.05 today.  Drivers are paying an average of 1.96 in Janesville, 1.99 in Oshkosh, in our area, we are about $2.00 a gallon in Eau Claire.