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A defective headlamp lead to an OWI over the weekend. 29 year old Marisa Lane Aselson, from Chippewa Falls, has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with one child in the vehicle under the age of 16. Aselson was traveling on USH 53 south of Melby Street when she was stopped by a WI State Patrol Trooper for operating a vehicle with a defective headlamp. Aselson

A security perimeter is set up around the convention center in Milwaukee in anticipation of this week’s Democratic National Convention.   Traffic restrictions were set in place yesterday with the use of fencing all around the Wisconsin Center.  The streets will be off limits around the site until Friday even though the convention is going to mostly be streamed online.

The arrangements for Anisa Scott’s funeral are set.  The eleven year old’s services will be held August 22.  A Celebration of Life will start at eleven-a.m. in the form of a march for unity.  The march will start at Pickney Street and proceed along East Washington Avenue to the state capitol.  The march will be followed by a private in-person funeral at Breese Stevens Field but it will be live streamed for the community.  Public viewing takes place following the

The Eau Claire Area School District has announced that it will postpone all fall sports seasons and offer them in the spring season of 2021, in alignment with an alternative model provided by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association. In examining the upcoming seasons, school and district administration determined that the district’s hybrid instructional model, coupled with the Eau Claire City-County Health Department’s current order (see below) and its physical distancing requirements, would make it extremely difficult to implement and schedule

Wisconsin National Guard troops based in Eau Claire get a warm welcome home.   Thirteen months after their sendoff ceremony, the remaining members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 128th Infantry Regiment safely returned to Wisconsin Aug. 14 after completing a security mission in Afghanistan. We salute you. The 128th Infantry supported the U.S. Army’s 3rd Security Forces Assistance Brigade (SFAB) by providing force protection for numerous engagements between SFAB advisors and other coalition forces, contractors and Afghan troops. Later

Members of several teacher and other campus worker unions want no in class instruction this fall at the University of Wisconsin.  Dozens of members of a handful of unions were out around campus yesterday in a rally to call for learn at home online only this fall semester because of COVID-19 concerns.  For the moment school administrators plan to welcome thousands of Badgers students back to class starting September 2.

The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is offering alternative sports activity schedules.  One is for the fall and the other delays fall sports until spring.  The WIAA Board of Control says school officials around the state have until September 1 to decide which way to go.  The schedule options per sporting activity are posted on the website with an EASY CLICK HERE.

The President and Vice President have several speaking engagements lined up around Wisconsin the same time the Democrats will be in Milwaukee for their party’s convention.  The 2020 Democratic National Convention is from August 17 through August 20 at the Wisconsin Center.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will both speak remotely due to COVID-19 concerns.  Starting the morning of the 17th President Trump and Vice President Pence both will kick off their own string of campaign stump speeches including in Oshkosh and Darien.

Wisconsin sees another spike in new coronavirus cases as well as a rising positivity rate.  Health officials today say more than a thousand new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the last 24 hours.  The seven-day average is 780 cases a day.  The positivity rate is the highest it’s been in nearly a month at seven-point-three-percent.  Seven deaths were also reported bringing the total number of people killed by the coronavirus to one-thousand-and-25.