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The St. Croix County Emergency Communication Center received a call at about 6:53 p.m. on  Thursday, July 3, 2025, reporting a crash, with injuries, at the intersection of County Trunk Highway (CTH) T and County Trunk Highway G, in Erin Prairie Township.  Deputies arrived on scene and located a two vehicle crash. A 2023 Harley Davidson Motorcycle,  operated by Richard A. VanWagner, age 61, from New Richmond, WI had been traveling northbound  through the intersection on CTH T. A 2006

Renovations to the Owen Park playground project scheduled for this summer, is being pushed back.  The City of Eau Claire says the project has gotten community support for a larger replacement.  Private fundraising campaigns for the playground project are asking for a bigger, more accessible playground.  Now that the playground expansion is pushed back, renovations to the Donald “Sarge” Boyd Bandshell in Owen Park are being moved up to 2027.

A two-million-dollar Powerball ticket was sold in Appleton.  Wisconsin Lottery says the ticket was sold at Festival Foods in Van Roy Road and won during the Saturday drawing.  It matched five numbers, but not the Powerball number.  Two other winning Powerball tickets sold earlier this year at Wisconsin Festival Foods locations were worth one-million-dollars each.

Madison is one of the least stressed cities in the nation, while Milwaukee is one of the most-stressed.  A new report by WalletHub compares cities based on metrics like the average number of hours and divorce rates.  Madison ranks 17th least stressed US city.  Milwaukee is on the opposite end of the list, ranking 19th most stressed.  The most stressed cities are Detroit and Cleveland.

Two University of Wisconsin-Stout students – Allison Seanor and Megan McDowell – recently completed two murals, half a world apart. Their public installations celebrate how art brings communities together, creating vibrant and welcoming spaces. Seanor, an art education major from Wausau, studied abroad at Accademia Italiana in Florence, Italy, last spring. She participated in a city-wide mural festival with her artwork entitled “To Travel is to Understand.” McDowell, an animation and digital media major from Albertville, Minnesota, was commissioned by Koala Dental Care in St. Cloud, to create

A Tomah man is adding to his OWI arrests.  Thirty-three-year-old Michael McLamb was arrested after a vehicle crash Saturday on I-90 in Monroe County.  No injuries were reported.  Charges include OWI-5th offense.

A single-vehicle crash in Portage County over the weekend has left one person dead and another injured.  Authorities say a pickup truck’s 17-year-old driver was operating the vehicle recklessly when he lost control and the truck overturned Saturday in Grant.  The driver survived with injuries while his 18-year-old front seat passenger died at the scene.

Authorities are reporting the death of a young person in an accident last week in Vernon County.  Reports say two kids, ages 11 and 12, were riding on a farm UTV when the operator lost control and the vehicle overturned.  The 12-year-old suffered injuries that proved fatal while injuries suffered by the younger child are described as non life-threatening.

The City of Eau Claire is actively recruiting folks who would be interested in serving on the its Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee.  The committee’s role is to provide advice to City Council that reflects community values on bicycle and pedestrian practices relative to the city.  More details are available WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE.

High temperatures and heavy rainfall has cut Wisconsin’s strawberry season short.  Farmers at Bures Berry Patch say an abundance of heat ripened their strawberries too fast, resulting in rotting fruit.  Heavy rains from mid-June also brought over five inches of rain to the farm, flooding parts of it.  Ed Bures says his farm’s waterways were able to minimize damage.  The Bures are now focusing on other crops like sweet corn, green beans and red potatoes.