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The beginning of the season for Wisconsin’s men’s and women’s hockey teams will be delayed.  The Hockey Commissioners Association said today the continued impact of COVID-19 is forcing the hold on the start of competition.  The commission says the eleven NCAA Division 1 hockey conferences will announce plans for the season individually.

Restaurant owners are toasting Restaurant Week in Green Bay.  The week is usually celebrated in July but the coronavirus crisis changed those plans.  Green Bay Restaurant Week is underway today and runs through September 17th.  There are over 35 restaurants participating and information is posted on GB Restaurant Week-dot-com-slash-restaurants.

We now have an update and know the names of those involved. 49 year old Ricky A Bahr, of Osseo, died in the crash and theinjured, 64 year old Nancy J. Haldeman, of Fall Creek remains in critical condition at an area hospital. THE ORIGINAL STORY: A crash turns fatal in Eau Claire County. It was the morning of Thrusday, September 10th when the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the 7000 block of USH 12, Township of

Unemployment is down in Eau Claire. New numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development show weekly claims down for the fifth week in a row. That means more people are going back to work. Initial claims are also down from the previous week.

Students the University of Wisconsin-Madison are taking classes 100-percent online amid rising cases of COVID-19 on campus. The school announced the move yesterday after the seeing the coronavirus positivity rate increase to 20-percent among students after Labor Day weekend. The health department said there are 46-separate outbreaks tied to the university.

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.