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Today is National Beer Day.  Celebrating this made-up holiday is as simple as grabbing a cold one and maybe taking to social media with the hashtag National Beer Day.  National Beer Day is observed on the seventh of April because it was on this day back in 1933 that President Franklin Roosevelt made the first official move toward ending Prohibition.  He signed into law the Cullen-Harrison Act, making it legal for beer to be brewed and sold as long as

The Board of Education is planning to move forward with their Superintendent search. There are three finalists for Superintendent of the Eau Claire Area School District and we now know when the next steps and interviews will take place: Tuesday, April 14, 2020: Mr. Michael Johnson, Assistant Superintendent in the South Washington County School District (MN)Wednesday, April 15, 2020: Ms. Rosalie Daca, Chief Academic Officer of the Racine Unified School District (WI)Friday, April 17, 2020: Dr. Rev Hillstrom, Director of

It’s election day tomorrow. City Clerk Carrie Riepl last week announced changes to three polling places in Eau Claire due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are some of the changes as well as an easy click to find your own polling location. The polling place for wards 4, 5, and 42 at Pentecostal, is moved to the Menards Tennis Center on Menomonie Street. Wards 1, 34, and 46 at Our Redeemer Church, 601 Fall Street is moved to Eau Claire

Eau Claire County residents can now call the health department with COVID-19 questions. The Eau Claire City-County Health Department now has a call center that people can call to get answers about coronavirus and its symptoms. The department says the call center is staffed Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center can be reached at 715-831-7425.

A local police department is helping kids at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic celebrate their birthdays. The Durand Police Department is teaming up with Dairy Queen to give elementary kids and younger a birthday card and a gift certificate for a sweet treat at the Durand location. The police department said they’d also be happy to participate in a parade-style birthday party for kids. Parents are encouraged to message the department Facebook page to participate. 

It will get worse before it gets better. That is the message for the week ahead as we launch into a new week, we will have new changes ahead as we all navigate life in the climate of a world health pandemic. But, as we are taking each day together we will let you know the latest, laid out in simple form. Your Covid-19 Cliff Notes are here. As we follow the latest of the world pandemic, there is a

Wisconsin could see 23-hundred confirmed cases of the coronavirus by the end of the day. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday confirmed that two-thousand-267 people in the state are sick with the virus. DHS says 68 people have died from it. But over 25-thousand people have been tested for the coronavirus and confirmed to not be sick. There will be more federal money coming to Wisconsin to fight the coronavirus. FEMA yesterday granted Wisconsin’s request for a federal disaster declaration. Governor Evers asked

Election Day is tomorrow, but no one is sure what it will be like for voters. The Republican-controlled legislature on Saturday refused Governor Evers’ call to move the election til next month and make it vote-by-mail only. Top lawmakers say the governor shouldn’t be changing the election just days before voters cast their ballots. There are also some pending legal challenges heading into Election Day. The main question is how Wisconsin will handle absentee ballots that are mailed-in, or come-in after Election

Wisconsin’s governor says it is more important for people to stay at home than to go to church for Easter or go to temple for Passover. Republican lawmakers on Friday asked that the governor allow people to attend religious services this weekend despite his Safer at Home order. The governor’s office said in a statement that protecting public health is more important at this point and time.

The folks at the L.E. Phillips Career Development Center are helping-out during the coronavirus outbreak. The residents and volunteers are making masks for healthcare workers in western Wisconsin. The center’s Angela Kjellberg says they hope to make 40-thousand masks. She says a number of recent donations have given them enough material to make that goal possible.