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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.

 President Trump will visit Oshkosh on Monday.  The campaign says the president will deliver remarks on Joe Biden’s failures on jobs and the economy.  Trump is scheduled to make his remarks around 4:30 Monday afternoon at Wittman Airport.  The president has a busy day on Monday with stops also planned in Minnesota and Yuma, Arizona.

Juneteenth is now a paid holiday for Dane County employees.  The county board passed a resolution last night recognizing June 19th as a paid day off.  The holiday pay will cost the county about 66-thousand-dollars.  Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that the last of the slaves learned of their freedom, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

Appleton and Fond du Lac have some of the lowest gas prices in the state.  Triple-A says the average cost for a gallon of regular in Wisconsin is $2.08 today.  The national average is 2.17.  Gas is under 2 dollars a gallon in both Appleton and Fond du Lac. 

Almost half of the employees at a produce company in Barron County are COVID-19 positive. The Barron County Health Department says 44-percent of the employees at Seneca Foods in Cumberland are infected with coronavirus. The first case was reported in mid-July, and ten days later the health department reported several cases at the factory.