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The dresses and dinners, tuxedos and ties. Whether it’s a creative invite or a group of friends looking to memories, Prom season is underway and a special time of year for many area students.  For this week’s Friday Feel Good we visit Pennsylvania where a certain Girl Scout is making sweet splash not in cookies, but in clothes!  A Girl Scout in Pennsylvania organized a prom dress giveaway on Sunday and collected over 150 dresses, plus shoes.  She’s only in fifth grade but decided

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire has earned a silver rating in a reporting process that measures the sustainability performances of universities and colleges around the world. UW-Eau Claire is one of 355 institutions to receive a valid Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) designation from the Association for the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). The ratings include universities from around the world, including Australia, Canada, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico and United Arab Emirates. The STARS global sustainability

An upcoming event brings bargains and giving back together. Faith Lutheran Church, 733 Woodward Ave is hosting a thrift sale to benefit the families of Southview Elementary School lunch balances. If you are interested, you can see the details below:

A field trip to Minneapolis ended at the hospital for a couple of middle schoolers from Eau Claire. The kids were on a school bus that crashed into the back of a gas truck on I-94 yesterday. Six of the kids from DeLong Middle School were slightly hurt when the bus hit the back of the truck. Two of those kids were taken to a local hospital in Hudson as a precaution. Traffic cam video caught the crash. It shows

Some of Eau Claire’s older parks are getting a refresh this spring. Parks director Steve Plaza yesterday said two basketball courts at Demmler and Grover Heights Park are getting new surfaces. So are the tennis courts in Carson Park that were vandalized by fire over the winter. Plaza says work should start on the basketball courts in a week or so. He’s not saying when the work on the tennis courts could begin.

The price of a home in Wisconsin is up 10 percent from a year ago. The Wisconsin Realtors released their latest report yesterday. It says sales are up just over three percent compared to March of 2023, but prices are way up. The report blames both a low supply of homes for sale, and much higher interest rates. The median price for a home in the state is now just under 300 thousand-dollars, though it’s higher than that in both

The University of Wisconsin is walking away from its Richland campus. The university announced earlier this week that it plans to vacate the campus by July 1st. The university ended in-person classes there two years ago. At that time there were just 57 students looking to get a degree. Local leaders in Richland County want to know what they’re going to do with the campus now. They signed an agreement promising to help pay for the campus, and are now

Wisconsin’s attorney general is once again arguing that there is nothing in state law that bans ballot drop boxes. A-G Josh Kaul filed his case with the Wisconsin Supreme Court yesterday. He said drop boxes are technically not illegal, and therefore should be allowed. The new liberal-majority court is taking another look at the 2022 decision from the then-conservative-majority court that said there’s nothing in Wisconsin law that specifically allows for drop boxes, therefore they are illegal. Kaul said local

A man from Cornell accused of sexually assaulting a child is incompetent to stand trial.  Spencer Harmison was accused of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl last year.  Investigators say he admitted to assaulting her.  A Chippewa County Judge found Harmison is currently not competent for trial, but will likely be deemed competent in the future.  He will be admitted for treatment, also on the judge’s orders.

Wisconsin will be getting four-point-six million dollars to help conserve coastline habitats.  The state Department of Administration says the money will be split between two projects.  One project in Iron County will go toward purchasing and managing more than a thousand acres of Lake Superior coastline.  The rest of the money will go toward restoring the upper part of the Valley Creek corridor and reducing future flooding risks.  About 75-million dollars will be given out nationally through the federal Bipartisan