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Eau Claire Parks & Recreation announces that all warming shelters will open for the season today with regular holiday hours offering hot cocoa, indoor games, and arts and crafts. Pinehurst will also be open for sledding, snowboarding, and cross-country skiing.  2019-2020 warming shelter holiday hours will continue through January 1.  Boyd & Pinehurst: 11am‐8pm Demmler, Oakwood, Putnam Heights, Roosevelt, Sam Davey: 11am‐7pm  Indoor Skating Opportunities at Hobbs Ice Arena 11am-1pm and 1:15pm-3:15pm. $4/person OR EC RecPass (1 punch) Includes skate

It certainly was a warm Christmas for southeast Wisconsin. The National Weather Service says yesterday was the second warmest Christmas in the past 40 years for Milwaukee. The city saw 57 degrees yesterday,. That’s the warmest since the Christmas of 1982. But that doesn’t mean we are lining up for a warm winter. While Christmas 82 was warm, Christmas 1983 was the coldest for Milwaukee over the same 40 year period.

The Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce has a new CEO.  If you were paging through The Dunn County News with your coffee, you may have seen that Ashley DeMuth has been selected to start the new role on January 2nd.  DeMuth is currently the director of the United Way of Dunn County. PHOTO CREDIT THE DUNN COUNTY NEWS

Two Eau Claire residents are accused of buying cocaine in Minnesota and bringing it back to Wisconsin.  A criminal complaint claims Tamara Howlett and Terrell Wilson bought the drugs and sold them to an undercover informant in Eau Claire.  Drugs were also reportedly found in their car and house during a search.  Howlett and Wilson were recently arrested and charged with multiple drug counts.

A traffic stop leads to an OWI and arrest for a Black River Falls woman who was driving with a baby in the car. It was on Wednesday, December 25th, at approximately 2:30 pm a trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding (58/45) on Highway 40 in Chippewa County. Upon initial approach the trooper detected the odor of alcohol. An 11 month old child was also an occupant of the vehicle. A subsequent vehicle search revealed multiple open intoxicants and the

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers isn’t looking to cut taxes in 2020. The governor this week said he’d rather spend any surplus money on clean water and educational initiatives. Republican lawmakers say they want to spend next year’s surplus to help homeowners across the state deal with what could be the highest property taxes in a decade.

No one is going snowmobiling in Chippewa County anytime soon. The Chippewa Valley Snowmobile Organization yesterday said they are closing the county’s trails till further notice. The group says it’s too warm and there’s not enough snow on the ground.

The bell ringers are gone, and now it’s time to see how generous people across Wisconsin have been this holiday season. Salvation Army chapters across the state are now counting the donations from their Red Kettle campaign, but expectations are down. Several chapters say they expect to fall short of their donation goals this year. A lack of cash-carrying customers is one of the biggest reasons.

Fishing tour guides on the upper Mississippi River will need a federal license in the new year. The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge says the new requirement is aimed at helping to maintain a healthy river and healthy fish populations. Guides did not need a license in 2019 as the refuge transitioned to the new rules. The Upper Mississippi Refuge stretches from Minnesota down to Le Claire, Iowa.

It’s the kind of story that makes people smile around the holidays. Michele Bachmann says a group of ladies gave her a 13-hundred-dollar tip during her shift on Sunday. Bachmann, who waits tables at Mulberry’s Pancakes and Café in Union Grove, says she figured it was maybe 100 dollars. But was blown away to see just how much the ladies tipped. The group of ladies say they made it a point to find a deserving person and brighten their holiday.