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The Eau Claire Area School District’s Demographic Trends and FacilityPlanning Committee will discuss options to relieve enrollment and capacity concerns at three elementary schools at its February 13 meeting. Currently, Meadowview and Putnam Heights Elementary Schools are at more than 90 percent capacity, while Manz Elementary School is near that mark. Projections indicate enrollment is likely to continue to grow in these three schools in the years to come. To date, the Board of Education has considered three possible referendum

A man already behind bars in connection with a drug bust in Dunn County will spend more time in prison.  Joseph Lachance pleaded guilty to drug charges in December after police said they found meth at his home.  Lachance was back in court Tuesday where he was sentenced to ten years in prison plus five years of supervised release.

The Polk County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a suspicious death.  The sheriff’s department says it found a person dead in Centuria just west of Balsam Lake around 6:15 Monday night.  The sheriff’s department says there’s no danger to the public.

A Lake Hallie man pleads not guilty to child sexual assault.  A criminal complaint says Timothy Wundrow is accused of assaulting a six-year-old girl last year, leading to his arrest back in August.  Wundrow pleaded not guilty to five charges, including two counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child.  Both sex assault charges could land him in prison for 40 years each.

A new park is coming to the Princeton Valley neighborhood in Eau Claire.  The city council approved a plan Tuesday night to rezone land on both sides of Princeton Avenue to make way for the park.  Reports say the park will include a basketball court, play area, and walking trails.

About two-million dollars worth of improvements will be made at Eau Claire’s Riverview Park.  The improvements were approved at the city council meeting Tuesday night and construction is expected to start in the summer.  The plan is to improve walking and biking paths by connecting them to nearby neighborhoods.

A Chippewa County woman will avoid prison time for exposing her child to drugs. Sally Lis pleaded guilty yesterday to charges from 2017 that she exposed her then-two-month-old baby to meth and heroin. As part of her plea, Lis will not spend any more time behind bars. She will spend the next four years on probation and will have to work with child welfare case managers to keep her child safe.

It’s unclear if the elderly driver who ran down a six-year-old in the northwoods will face charges. The Waurasha County sheriff yesterday said a 76-year-old man was driving down the shoulder of the road when he hit and killed the little girl as she was waiting for her school bus in the tiny town of Plainfield. The sheriff is not saying if the man was arrested, or if charges will be filed. Investigators say it looks like he was trying

Interrupting a class or a speaker in a UW System classroom could soon get students kicked-out of school. The Wisconsin Assembly yesterday approved a proposed law that would enforce new rules for speech on campus. The rules require a suspension for anyone who disrupts a speaker, a class, or a rally twice. A third offense can get the student expelled. Republicans at the statehouse say the rules protect free speech. Democrats say the idea attacks free speech. The proposal now heads to

Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol say they are sending the message that they take public safety seriously. The Republican-led Assembly yesterday approved a series of tough on crime proposals. The most notable are a requirement that anyone who commits a crime while on probation or parole must have a hearing to see if they will go back to jail or prison, and a mandate that people convicted of certain violent felonies are not eligible for early release. Democrats at the statehouse largely