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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. 

Farmers can get a free meal next week. This year’s Chippewa Falls Area Chamber of Commerce Farmer Appreciation Dinner will be a grab and go format, compared to previous years. It’s at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds next Wednesday, August 18th. Tickets can be reserved by contacting the Chamber before the event. Meals will be served from 4 to 8:30 p.m.

A community program is launching to help the Menomonie police department stop a growing methamphetamine problem in Dunn County.  Project Hope seeks to provide a different approach to solving drug addiction. According to the police department, Dunn County has over one-and-a-half times more meth submissions to the state crime lab than in Milwaukee County. Menomonie Police Chief Erik Atkinson says he’s grateful the community is embracing a culture of rehabilitation to help people who are struggling.

Highway-153 in Marathon County was closed this week for an unusual reason.  The Marathon County Sheriff’s Department says a plane was using the road as a runway after several attempts to take-off failed. The sheriff’s department says the pilot was finally able to get airborne and continue to Eau Claire. 

Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus snapshot shows who is most at risk of dying from the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Human Services yesterday updated the state’s coronavirus count. So far, just over one thousand people have died with the virus. DHS says over 900 of those people were over the age of 60. DHS yesterday reported 943 new positive tests and almost 12 thousand negative tests. There are 354 people in the hospital with the virus, 109 of them are in

Wisconsin’s governor says the state’s mask mandate applies to everyone, even the President of the United States. Governor Tony Evers yesterday told reporters that he expects President Trump to wear a face mask when the president speaks in Oshkosh on Monday. The governor said the president, the vice president, and the crowd need to abide by the state’s mask requirement and wear a mask while inside. President Trump is coming to Oshkosh on what would have been the first day