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Royal Credit Union in Eau Claire is supporting the Nature Center at Willow State Park.  On Thursday the credit union donated 250-thousand dollars from its foundation to the park.  A new nature center is being built that will hold classrooms for adults and kids.  The overall project is expected to cost around four-million dollars.

Wisconsin’s election managers are not naming the local election clerks who are using old and outdated computers. The state’s Election Commission yesterday said five of the state’s 27-hundred clerks are using Windows XP on their election computers. Microsoft stopped offering security updates for Windows XP five years ago. Election commissioners say outdated computers put election files and voter information at risk.

Wisconsin now has a 9/11 Memorial Highway. The state’s 9/11 Memorial Education Center is coming. Governor Tony Evers yesterday signed a law that recognizes a stretch of State Highway 28 between I-41 in Dodge County and Highway 144 in Washington County as the 9/11 Memorial Highway. Crews are working on an education center in Kewaskum. Kewaskum is home to Andrea Haberman who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11.

A jury in Menomonie should start their work in deciding the fate of a young woman charged with killing her ex-boyfriend by the end of the day. Closing arguments are set to begin this morning in Ezra McCandless’ trial. Police say she stabbed her ex, Alexander Woodworth, 16 times last year. McCandless says she killed him in self defense.

We should get more details soon on a stabbing in Barron that sent two people to the hospital and one person to jail. Barron Police say they plan to release more information today about what happened in Anderson Park yesterday. Investigators simply say that two people were hurt in a stabbing, and one person is in custody. There’s no word on injuries or a motive in the case.

Western Wisconsin’s Democratic congressman says impeachment should be a last resort, but he’s open to the idea. Congressman Ron Kind yesterday voted for the rules that will decide the impeachment process in Congress. He says he wants to see where the evidence against President Trump goes. Kind has been less enthusiastic about impeachment than other Wisconsin Democrats, in part because President Trump won his district back in 2016.

The city of Eau Claire is using a 10-million-dollar safe drinking water loan to pay for the next round of improvements at the city’s water treatment plant. Utility managers say they need to upgrade some of the pieces that help filter-out iron and manganese from drinking water. Work on the project should start in two weeks.

Kids in Eau Claire may want to count their candy bars. An Eau Claire dentist, Dr. Courtney Reich, is offering parents five dollars-per-pound for Halloween candy. She says the idea is to avoid cavities. Kids will get a toothbrush for their troubles. Reich and the other dentists at Oakwood Hills Family Dental are limiting the candy buy-back to just one pound per kid. You can swing buy and sell what’s left starting Monday.

It is Halloween and Wisconsinites are joining 170 million other Americans in celebrating.  Candy industry website candy-dot-com says it’s research shows over 50-percent of parents stash some Halloween candy to enjoy later in the year and the average household spends 25-dollars for Halloween candy.  Starburst is the favorite candy in the Badger State with nearly a 110-thousand-pounds distributed at Halloween. The second favorite candy in Wisconsin is Butterfinger followed by Hot Tamales.

 Wisconsin Congresswoman Gwen Moore says voting on today’s impeachment resolution is one of the most sobering events of her career.  Moore says she never came to Congress to impeach a president but she will not shirk from her responsibilities to oppose the constitution and defend democracy.  Fellow Democrat Mark Pocan says House members are holding the president accountable, but they are also getting legislative work done.  Pocan today introduced the LEARNS Act which is designed to strengthen apprenticeship programs and secure