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The Eau Claire public library is adding a staffer to help patrons dealing with poverty and homelessness.  The library calls the new position the Community Resource Specialist.  Staff say the new employee will be available to answer questions about Medicare coverage, financial assistance, and where to find a place to stay daily. 

Emergency funding to repair roads and bridges is finally available for Wisconsin.  The state will be getting about 23-million-dollars from the U.S. Department of Transportation following devastating floods the last summer.  The federal funding is part of an emergency budget.  Northern and southern Wisconsin will be receiving money to help rebuild infrastructure. 

The Confederate flag or any symbol of it is now banned in the Tomah schools.  The school board voted unanimously in a special meeting yesterday to ban the wearing or display of the flag.  School officials have said there were several incidents at the high school connected to the display of the flag.  Opponents to the ban says it limits a student’s right to free speech. 

Snowmobile trails are closed in Marathon County.  The Parks and Recreation Department says rain and deteriorating trail conditions forced the closure of the trails in County parks today.  There is snow in the forecast, but freezing drizzle and light freezing rain is also expected over the next couple of days. 

Uniforms, bats, balls and plenty of sunflower seeds are all packed and heading to the new Milwaukee Brewers training facility in Phoenix.  Trucks were packed up today for the trip to the desert and the fully renovated training facility renamed Brewers Fields of Phoenix.  The facility has undergone a 60-million-dollar renovation.  The ribbon-cutting ceremony is February 12th and pitchers and catchers report on February 13th. 

Alternate Side Parking rules go into effect at midnight Wednesday, 2/6/19 and will end at 5 p.m. on 2/8/19. Alternate Side Parking rules will be enforced between 12-midnight and 5 p.m. each day of the Snow Event. ·         On odd-numbered dates vehicles should be parked on the side of the street having odd-numbered addresses. ·         On even-numbered dates vehicles should be parked on the side of the street having even-numbered addresses. POSTED STREET SIGNS are the final word. Some streets may have

No one is injured after an unoccupied cabin on the west side of Prairie Lake exploded over the weekend.  A firefighter with the Cameron Fire Department says the cabin’s owners were on the lake a mile away when the explosion happened.  The cabin is being considered a total loss and the cause of the explosion is currently unknown. 

A Colfax man is going to prison for nine months after being convicted of a 2015 child sexual assault.  A criminal complaint says a young boy told police 52-year-old Joseph Schindler touched him inappropriately over the span of about a month and Schindler allegedly admitted to the touching.  Schindler pleaded no contest to the crime and will also serve six months of probation after his jail sentence. 

A woman is injured after police say she was accidentally shot in the ankle by her husband.  The Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office says 27-year-old Adam Hoff called police to his Ettrick home early Sunday morning saying he accidentally shot his wife, 25-year-old Shayli Hoff.  She was taken to the hospital and Hoff was arrested and charged with handling a firearm while under the influence and bail jumping. 

Two new housing complexes in Menomonie are getting closer to being built.  While flipping through the The Leader-Telegram you may have read reports that the city council voted yesterday to start development on a 53-unit student housing complex on 17th Avenue West and a 96-unit complex on 21st Street.  The city must first agree to rezone the land for multi-family, residential use.  Both building proposals will be taken up by the Planning Commission later this month.