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Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative (CVHC) is now accepting community and physician members. The nonprofit Cooperative was formed on February 29, 2024, by seven Chippewa Valley business and community leaders concerned about access to and the cost of healthcare across the region. Community members 18 years and older in the 15-county Chippewa Valley region and physicians licensed to practice medicine in Wisconsin can now join the Cooperative for a one- time fee of $25 and $100 respectively. Members should be people

The Chippewa Falls YMCA, in a collaborative effort with the Chippewa Health Improvement Partnership (CHIP) and Group Health Cooperative of Eau Claire, announced a series of free health screening events aimed at fostering a healthier community. These events will offer health checks at no cost to participants and these screenings are being offered to the community and include providing comprehensive health screenings including Hemoglobin A1c, blood pressure, BMI, and body fat percentage. These screenings are crucial for early detection and

With a rich history of farming in Chippewa County from corn, apples, milk to grain crops, the Chippewa Falls Area Chamber of Commerce holds its annual Farmer Appreciation Dinner on Wednesday, June 19th, 2024. This event hosted at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds from 4 pm to 8 pm recognizes the contribution from our hardworking farming families. “The local business community in Chippewa Falls and surrounding communities realize the vital role that our local farmers play in food supply, keeping

Today is Juneteenth. This is the day that our nation commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. The name of the holiday is a combination of June and 19th. President Abraham Lincoln freed enslaved African Americans when he issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st, 1863 and it became law later that year through the 13th Amendment. But slavery didn’t effectively end until June 19th, 1865 when Major General Gorden Granger and his two-thousand Union troops arrived in Galveston

HSHS says it will donate nearly 16 million-dollars in former donations to its hospitals in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The Hospital Sisters of St. Francis Foundation yesterday said the bulk of the money, nine million-dollars, will go to the Community Foundation of Chippewa County and Eau Claire Community Foundation. Each will get four-and-a-half million-dollars. HAHS says it will give nearly five million-dollars to the Monsignor Klimek Healing Presence Endowment, the Healing Place Endowment, and the Healing Place Fund. There

There is now an arrest in a western Wisconsin homicide case, but there still aren’t many details. The sheriff in Trempealeau County yesterday said deputies arrested 61-year-old Todd Gieck for the killing in Ettrick back on May 15th. But the sheriff’s office has yet to say anything about just what happened, how the victim died, or a motive in the case. The victim has been identified as 36-year-old Kyle Dahl of Ettrick.

Wisconsin’s share of the national baby powder settlement comes to just under 16-million dollars. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday announced the settlement. In all, Johnson & Johnson will pay states 700-million dollars to settle claims that the company knew baby powder with talc was harmful to women, but continue to market it nonetheless. Kaul said his office is dedicated to protecting people in Wisconsin. He is not saying how the state will spend its part of the settlement.

UW-La Crosse’s former chancellor plans to try and keep his teaching jobs later today. Joe Gow is facing a disciplinary hearing today. He was fired as chancellor in late December after the university discovered he was making porn movies with his wife, and sharing them on the internet. Gow accepted his firing as chancellor, but is fighting to save his job as a communications professor. He says he did nothing wrong. And Gow questions why the UW can have a

Wisconsin doesn’t want the bird flu to ruin fair season this summer. The state’s Department of Health Services and the state’s Department of Agriculture yesterday said they both plan to monitor fairs across the state this year for the bird flu. There are outbreaks in other states where the flu has been found in dairy cows. Both DHS and DATCP say people need to be aware of staying healthy after visiting fairs, but there’s no reason to be afraid. DHS

We now know the name of the Sergeant arrested after an investigation related to crimes against children. The original incident was reported below: On June 12, 2024, the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office conducted a search warrant in the Village Of Spencer with the assistance of the Wisconsin Department Of Criminal Investigations ( DCI) and the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office. The search warrant was the result of an ongoing Internet Crimes Against Children ( ICAC) investigation. The suspect was identified as