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A summer staple isn’t opening this year. La Crosse Parks and Recreation yesterday announced they’re canceling the 2020 aquatic season at the Veterans Memorial, North Side Community, and Erickson pools. The department says they were concerned with safety and staffing, and opening the pools requires weeks of preparation, so the decision is not likely to change. Officials say they still plan to maintain and open the city’s splash pads and public beaches when it is deemed safe to do so. 

A free Chippewa Valley Rotary Club event is cancelled this year. The Chippewa Valley After Hours Rotary Club cancelled Taste of the Valley yesterday. Officials say the event originally scheduled for June 7th at Phoenix Park was cancelled due to concerns about public safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers say proceeds from Taste of the Valley are used to support the rotary club’s mission to help provide food security in the Chippewa Valley. Organizers say the festival will return in

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is injecting some math into the conversation about when Wisconsin can reopen. The governor yesterday said the state expects to see more positive coronavirus cases as more people are tested. He said the key will be the percentage of people testing positive, not just the raw number of cases. T he governor’s Badger Bounce Back plan requires two weeks of falling positive case numbers before the state can reopen.

Wisconsin’s new Safer at Home order begins today, and that means that some people will be outside a bit more. Including some golfers who are able to hit courses, with modified rules. Eau Claire County Sheriff Ron Cramer says, for the most part, people have been following the rules to stay at home. The sheriff says when there is a violation, his deputies take them on a case-by-case basis. The new Safer at Home order is supposed to run til

Every single one of Wisconsin’s members of Congress is on-board with the plan to restock the Paycheck Protection Act. The House yesterday nearly unanimously approved the plan to add 321 million-dollars to the program designed to help small businesses pay their workers and keep themselves afloat during the coronavirus outbreak. Western Wisconsin Congressman Ron Kind says the new program will ‘fill-in the gaps’ from the original paycheck program.

We haven’t heard much about the status of Foxconn lately, but now face masks are the first things to roll off the assembly line at Foxconn’s plant in Mount Pleasant. Governor Tony Evers yesterday said the company donated 100-thousand face masks to the state. The governor has been critical of Foxconn and its agreement with the state in the past. Foxconn is still working to make ventilators at the Mount Pleasant plant as well.

A man who escaped prison in a stolen vehicle was later arrested. It was a bit after 1 on Thursday afternoon when the Chippewa County Communications Center received a call from the Chippewa Valley Correctional Treatment Facility, that an inmate had escaped andwas last seen running south and east away from the prison. It was later reported the prisoner was seen getting into a black Toyota and was driving toward 50th Ave. at 160th St. Shortly after, a deputy observed

The number of COVID-19 cases and both rise in the last 24 hours.   Wisconsin health officials today say over 200 new coronavirus cases and eleven deaths are confirmed since yesterday.  There are over five-thousand cases in the state and 257 people have died from the virus.

The State Department of Workforce Development says over 55-thousand people filed first time unemployment claims in Wisconsin last week.  That pushed the number of jobless claims in recent weeks to almost 300-thousand in the state.  Most of the layoffs and furloughs are because of the closing of businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

 The NFL is holding its 2020 Draft tonight via the internet.  The Packers have ten picks in the seven rounds.  Green Bay will pick 30th in round one tonight.  The team has the 62nd pick in round two and selects at number 94 in round three tomorrow.