You can begin the “Oooo’s” and “Ahhhh’s” while you are downtown ! The first piece for the 2018 Sculpture Tour Eau Claire is installed. Crews put up the sculpture at the Lismore Hotel, a new stop on the tour this year. The tour is the second-largest of its kind in the nation. Organizers say the tour will have 53 sculptures set up on pedestals around the city.
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The wheels on the bus go round and round…for a little less now. The City of Eau Claire is providing some relief for low-income transit riders as the council approved a measure last night to lower bus fares back to a dollar-fifty for low-income riders. Regular bus fare is a dollar-seventy-five. The new will go into effect July 1st. And a side note, a new study just came out that said taking the bus may be good for your health-people
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It’s National Teacher Day. As part of a larger effort to recognize all that teachers do, many places are offering teachers freebies today. Several chain restaurants, like Chipotle and Einstein Bagel’s are offering deals to educators. The National Education Association reports that on average teacher’s work over 52 hours a week, with 30 hours on spent on instruction and 22 hours devoted to lesson prep and grading. The average annual base salary for a full-time public school teacher is just over
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A familiar friendly face…that white hair, black rimmed glasses, and always the enthusiasm…of course it was The MENARDS GUY! The Wisconsin pitchman for Menards for more than two decades has died. Ray Szmanda died Sunday at his home in Antigo. He was 91-years-old.
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Trying to invest in going green means missing some green for some local people. Dozens of Wisconsin customers are trying to get refunds after they say a Minnesota-based company failed to finish solar energy projects for them. A couple in Chippewa County says Able Energy took thousands of dollars from them but hasn’t started any work on their solar project and the situation has dragged on for several years. One couple is working to build a case against Able Energy
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We could soon be seeing more yellow. Those hoofing it around our DOWNtown, may notice more while looking UP as pedestrian safety is being improved in Eau Claire. The city has been putting down yellow squares and rebuilding intersections and crosswalks to indicate when a pedestrian has the right of way. You will also notice new sidewalks, and crews are also installing a crosswalk signal system at the tricky intersection of Earl and South Farwell streets.
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Say it with me now: “Awwwwwww!!!” From the seeds of love to the roots of a life together, couples who were married at Dixon’s Apple Orchard in Chippewa County last year are returning to the place where they said “I do.” The owners of Dixon’s Apple Orchard and Wedding Venue, Jim and Becky Mullane, have invited all of the couples who were married at the orchard to come back and plant an apple tree together. This is the third annual
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Get ready to exagerate those measurements as you tell the TAIL of how “The Big One” got away… Many people hit the water for fishing opener weekend, including Governor Scott Walker. He was in our area to kick off Wisconsin’s fishing season as part of the 53rd Annual Governor’s Fishing Opener at Chetek Lake. Wisconsin has more than 15,000 inland lakes. The state fish is the muskellunge, or musky, and Wisconsin claims the most world-record musky catches. Walleye, bass and panfish
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No need to JUSTIFY this win, another Derby is in the books…and HOOFda, what a race it was. Here are more of the details: Mike Smith showed how he got his nickname. ”Big Money Mike” came up with another impressive victory, this time aboard Justify in the Kentucky Derby. He has won in many ways, but Saturday all it took was a big move at the start that gave the horse all the room it needed on a sloppy track
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ON YOUR MARK…GET SET…GO! Another one is in the books, and many in the RECORD books after a big weekend for the EC Marathon. There was a record-breaking number of entries, with more than 49-hundred runners at race on Sunday, May 6th. The faces of the races look like this: On the men’s side, two-time defending champion David Luy posted a new course record, but fell just short of his goal of qualifying for the U.S. Olympic team trials. Women’s
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