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The Eau Claire School Board decides that summer classes will be completed at home. Superintendent Dr. Mary Ann Hardebeck made the announcement during a virtual meeting yesterday. The Board also voted to move forward with the Ulrich Track Project at Memorial High School and awarded contracts to Fisher Tracks, HS Fence McCabe Construction, and Rettler Construction. Tim Nordin was also elected president of the school board.

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is making a clarification about eating on the golf course. According to Governor Evers most recent emergency order, restaurants and bars at golf courses could open for take-out and delivery service, but there was some confusion about eating on the course. The health department yesterday said food and beverage is not to be consumed at or near the clubhouses, but it’s okay on the course.

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is working with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to make videos about the COVID-19 pandemic in Spanish. The health department director said the videos are a good way to help people whose primary language isn’t English get necessary information about the COVID-19 pandemic like what it is and how to stay protected from its spread. The department said informational videos will also soon be available for people who speak Hmong

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers wants to ramp-up coronavirus testing in the state. The governor yesterday said he wants to test every person living in a nursing home in the state. He also wants to test more workplace hotspots. The governor says Wisconsin has the capacity to test nearly 12-thousand people a day, but he says nowhere near that many people are actually being tested. Here, that is the goal too, as Eau Claire, Chippewa, and Dunn counties yesterday all announced new testing sites.

School leaders in Eau Claire are going to have to find another new school board member. School Board Commissioner Eric Torres yesterday resigned. Torres is leaving to take a new job at Stephen F. Austin State University, in Texas. His resignation takes effect at the end of the month. Eau Claire school leaders say they will start to look for his replacement in the coming weeks.

A man caught with ten pounds of pot and a machine gun in western Wisconsin will not spend any time behind bars. A judge in Polk County on Monday sentenced Benjamin Chouinard to two years of probation. Police arrested Chouinard in 2018 after they say he bought four pounds of marijuana from an undercover agent. Police found more marijuana and a machine gun along with two silencers in his home after that. Chouinard pleaded the charges down to two counts of possession

There is a growing frustration at the Wisconsin Capitol over the time it takes for people in the state to get unemployment benefits. State Representative John Nygren yesterday suggested the state’s Department of Workforce Development pre-approve people who are likely to get an unemployment check. Nygren says the state currently does the same for people on Medicaid. Nearly a half million people in Wisconsin have applied for unemployment benefits since the coronavirus outbreak began back in March.

The approved crime victims’ constitutional amendment commonly known as Marsy’s Law for Wisconsin is now in effect after the Wisconsin Elections Commission today certified the official results of the April 7 Spring Election and Presidential Preference Primary. Marsy’s Law for Wisconsin advocate Teri Jendusa-Nicolai, who became one of the state’s most prominent victims’ rights advocates after surviving a brutal attack by her ex-husband.

The Department of Health Services says there are over 270 new COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin.  The total number of cases today now tops 82-hundred.  Three-hundred-and-40 Wisconsinites have died from the virus. 

Visitors to the state spent nearly 14-billion-dollars in 2019.  The Department of Tourism issued a report today showing visitors spent 13-point-seven-billion-dollars in Wisconsin last year.  More than 200 thousand full and part time jobs in Wisconsin are supported by the tourism industry.