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Micon Cinema is reopening in downtown Eau Claire this weekend. In a social media post yesterday, the theater group announced they will reopen with three-dollar tickets, social distancing and other safety measures in place. The theater will show Forrest Gump, the 1978 Superman movie, Midway, and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. You are encouraged to purchase tickets online. 

Chippewa County Emergency Management is recommending residents clear leaves and other debris from their storm drains to help keep properties dry. What’s left of tropical storm Cristobal  is still moving through the Midwest and more rain is expected this week. Officials also said covering basement windows with plastic covers or plywood could help keep extra water out. 

Law enforcement in Rusk County are investigating the deaths of two individuals in the town of Sheldon. On June 7th the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to a home in Sheldon after family visited the home and discovered the two residents deceased. The victims are a married couple who live at the home, 73 year old Robert Rosolowski and 70 year old Bonnie Mae Rosolowski. Investigators have ruled this case a double homicide, and law enforcement have arrested and booked

A man with the tools to steal dozens of identities and bank accounts was arrested in Menomonie. Police arrested Ronald Jenkins on Sunday. Officers found dozens of different ID cards, dozens of debit or credit cards, another 65 personal checks, as well as ten payroll checks in his car. The checks and cards all had different names. In addition to that, police say Jenkins had a printer and the tools needed to make fake checks or ID cards. Jenkins left

There is once again a conversation about getting body cameras for Eau Claire police officers. A petition is making the rounds that urges the city to get officers the cameras as soon as possible. Eau Claire is planning to equip officers with body cams in either 2022 or 2023. The petition wants that moved-up to no later than 2021. Eau Claire is looking to spend 800 thousand-dollars on police body cameras.

Wisconsin troops will no longer be in the streets of Madison and Milwaukee. Governor Tony Evers yesterday ended the guard’s mission to help local police departments deal with the protests that rocked both cities for about two weeks. The governor thanked the troops, and said he is encouraged that the last few nights off protests have seen very little violence. Nearly 15 hundred troops were mobilized across the state over the past two weeks.

Thousands of students and faculty members at the University of Wisconsin want the school to start over in its search for a new president. UW’s search committee interviewed their only candidate yesterday. Two thousand students and faculty members signed a petition yesterday demanding the school try again. They are upset that they didn’t have a say, and that the candidate, University of Alaska System President Jim Johnsen, isn’t from within the UW System. Johnsen yesterday said he hopes to work on relationship

Wisconsin’s campgrounds are open once again, but there are still some coronavirus restrictions in place. The Department of Natural Resources yesterday said campgrounds are opening today for the first time since the outbreak began. You’ll need a reservation and to bring your own firewood. Bathrooms and showers at campgrounds will be open, but observation towers, playgrounds, snack stands and rental shops will be closed.

Most Badger fans appear ready to return to Camp Randall in the fall. The school yesterday said about 85 percent of season ticket holders renewed their tickets for the 2020 season. That’s about a ten percent drop from last year, but a high enough number given the uncertainty over what this next college football season will look like. The University of Wisconsin is supposed to open its season at home on September 4th against IU.

The number of hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continues to rise.   Wisconsin Department of Health Services today reported an increase  of 44 hospitalizations and 15 deaths from yesterday.  All-in-all there are over 21-thousand-300 positive COVID cases in the state.  Six-hundred-and-61 Wisconsinites have died from the coronavirus.