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At its July 22 meeting, the Eau Claire Area School District Board of Education voted in favor of changing the boundaries for seven of the district’s elementary schools. The changes will affect Lakeshore, Locust Lane, Longfellow, Northwoods, Roosevelt, Sam Davey and Sherman elementary schools. The new boundaries will take effect starting in the 2020-21 school year. Students will continue to attend their current school this fall.The district and school officials will now develop a transition plan for students and families

A person is in the hospital after a car crash and fire in Polk County.  Police say a car crossed the center line on Highway 87 in Saint Croix Falls yesterday  morning and hit another car.  Both cars rolled and one caught on fire.  The driver of that car was flown to a hospital in the Twin Cities in unknown condition. 

The woman who died in a rollover crash in Jackson County last week is identified.  The county sheriff’s office says Katina Russon was driving near Highway X and Young Road last Friday when her truck flipped for an unknown reason.  Russon was thrown from the truck and died at the scene.  Karyn Behling was riding with Russon at the time of the crash and survived. 

A Black River Falls man is avoiding jail after pleading no contest to running from officers and operating while intoxicated.  The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says Jon Peterson was pulled over for drunk driving back in May but he drove off.  Peterson reportedly drove through multiple yards before he got stuck and was arrested.  Yesterday he had a three-month jail sentence stayed so he won’t serve any time as long as he doesn’t re-offend. 

The new Red Cedar Film Festival kicks off in Menomonie this week.  The festival’s website says it will feature over 30 short films, full films, and documentaries from local and international film makers at multiple venues.  Awards will also be given out at the festival.  The opening gala is Wednesday and film viewings start Thursday. 

You’re going to have to carry your own stuff at Miller Park next year.  The Brewers yesterday announced they will ban backpacks from the park starting next year.  The idea is to make it easier for people to get through the security line.  Purses and diaper bags will still be allowed. 

About 200 kids in Eau Claire could be going to new schools next year.  The city’s school district last night approved a new enrollment map.  Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck says the idea is to balance enrollment at the city’s schools.  Parents will have the choice to keep kids at the same school next year, or until their kids transition to middle school or high school.  In all, seven schools in Eau Claire will get new boundaries. 

The track at Eau Claire Memorial High School is going to look much better next year.  School leaders say the Pat and Connie Ulrich Trust is donating 250-thousand-dollars to the school to upgrade the track, as well as pay for new lighting and fences.  The donation is far less than the one-point-two million-dollars some anonymous donors were offering Memorial.  That fell apart after school leaders balked at matching part of the donation with public dollars.  

The National Weather Service is adding to the tornado count in western Wisconsin.  Forecasters yesterday said four tornadoes touched down in Barron and Clark counties Friday night.  Two of the tornadoes hit Barron County, two others hit Clark County.  The weather service says each county saw an EF-1 and an EF-0 storm.  Top wind speeds for the storms were about 110 miles-per-hour. 

A former UW-Oskosh professor’s apparent obsession with a student will cost the university 325-thousand-dollars.  The UW System yesterday said it is paying the former student, only identified as A.R, to end a sexual harassment claim against former professor Michael Beitz.  A.R. says Beitz harassed her for years, coerced her into having sex, then tried to contact her after she left the school.  She left the school in 2014.  Beitz resigned from UW Oshkosh in 2015.