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Marshfield Clinic Health System is looking to connect with local health care workers affected by the Hospital Sisters Health System and Prevea Health hospital and clinic closures. “We’re looking to fill a wide variety of open positions both clinical and non-clinical across our western Wisconsin footprint.” Job fairs will be held at Marshfield Medical Center-Eau Claire from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 31, and Thursday, Feb. 1. Those interested are asked to enter through Door E (located between the

Looking to celebrate love this February? Love is in the air, and creative new date ideas are hard to think of! If you are looking to plan something special, but not too far from home, Chippewa County leaders have compiled a list of some great ideas of things to do throughout the county and you can get started WITH A CLICK HERE.

The group that will try and see Eau Claire through the closings at HSHS and Prevea has its leaders. The group yesterday named Retired healthcare executive Bill Rupp and president of Northwestern Bank in Chippewa Falls Jerry Jacobson to lead the task force. Their goal will be to help find answers for workers, patients, and the community once HSHS and Prevea close this spring. The task force will have its first meeting today. Stretching the lens larger, this is a

A judge is refusing to set-aside a 40-year-old murder case in Polk County. The judge yesterday refused Mary Bailey’s request to dismiss the charges against her. Prosecutors claim Bailey shot and killed Yvonne Menke outside of her apartment St. Croix Falls back in 1985. The two were apparently dating the same man. Bailey says the case doesn’t have any facts that point to her as the murderer. Bailey remains in jail on 300 thousand-dollars bond, and is due back in

A judge wants more doctors to interview the other suspect in the Slender Man case. The judge yesterday said Morgan Geyser will need new psychological evaluations before he decides if she can go home. Geyser, who is now 21-years-old, has been in a state mental hospital since 2018. She was just 12, when she and a friend nearly killed another friend to appease the Slender Man. Geyser’s lawyers say she’s been working on her mental health, and is ready to

The students from Suring Schools who were strip searched back in 2022 are getting 400 thousand-dollars. A judge in Oconto County yesterday approved the settlement that will end the girls’ lawsuit against their former superintendent. That superintendent, Kelly Casper, stripped the six girls down to their underwear as part of a search for a vape cartridge. Prosecutors tried to charge Casper, but she walked away because state law doesn’t stop school leaders from strip searching students. Lawmakers have voted to

Tim Johnson is out at another western Wisconsin school district. Chippewa Falls Schools yesterday said Johnson resigned as their head of human resources and public relations. Johnson is under investigation for his time as superintendent of the Glenwood City Schools. A former substitute teacher says Johnson billed Glenwood City Schools about 80 thousand-dollars for grad school classes he may never have taken. Johnson left Glenwood City Schools last summer. Chippewa Falls’ school board accepted Johnson’s resignation last night.

Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to clarify the law for sex offenders. Wisconsin’s attorney general issued a ruling that sex offenders must register after two or more convictions, even if those convictions were for the same crime. The new law will likely mean more people will have to register as sex offenders going forward here in Wisconsin. The plan is up for a hearing at the statehouse later today.

A group of Wisconsin Democrats are pitching a plan to have the state boost local journalism. State Representatives Jimmy Anderson, Jodi Emerson, and state Senator Mark Spreitzer are asking the legislature to support a newspaper tax credit as well as a local journalism fellowship program, and what they are calling a Wisconsin Civic Information Consortium. The move comes after Democrats in Illinois suggested something similar to deal with the lack of local news coverage in their state. Local news coverage

The ten-thousandth tip has been received at the Speak Up, Speak Out tip-line. The Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of School Safety says the line is a free threat-reporting service giving students a way to speak with an adult confidentially any time of day, all year round. The agency says it got its ten thousandth call since the tip-line was launched September of 2020 on Friday. Of the tips, almost 200 were concerns about planned school attacks, over 200 were