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The Wisconsin Sport Show is returning for its 15th year in Eau Claire on March 15, 16 and 17, 2024.  This is the biggest show to date with over $8,000 in door prizes, including: pheasant hunting trip, wolf hunting trip, fishing equipment, hunting equipment and more. The weekend will be full of fishing and hunting seminars by national professionals, such as: CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND PLAN YOUR DAY

A former western Wisconsin teacher is headed to prison for sexually assaulting a student two years ago. A judge in Trempealeau County yesterday sentenced Nicholas Bergeron to one year behind bars. Prosecutors say he inappropriately touched students while working at Osseo-Fairchild High School.  A 15-year-old girl told police he touched her knees, thigh, back, shoulders, hands and back side. Other students made similar claims.  Bergeron will not be allowed back in a classroom once he serves his sentence.

Eau Claire is asking people to remove their decorations from the Lakeview and Forest Hill Cemeteries before spring cleaning begins.  Crews with the city’s Parks Department will start in a little more than a week.  Parks manager Steve Plaza says now is the time to remove Christmas decorations and other things that will eventually become trash.  American flags and flower pots, however, can stay.

The University of Wisconsin is officially moving forward with its guaranteed admission program.  The school unveiled the Wisconsin Guarantee program yesterday. State lawmakers approved a plan this year that guarantees a spot at UW-Madison to all Wisconsin high schoolers who finish in the top five-percent of their class.  Kids who finish in the top ten-percent are guaranteed a spot at other UW schools. Students will have to apply to be part of the program, even though some will likely also

The state of Wisconsin is offering people a chance to learn how to hunt a bear.  The DNR kicked off its Learn to Hunt Bear Program this week.  The class will cover things like bear habitats, health, hunting techniques and regulations.  Bears are common in parts of Wisconsin, particularly the northern part of the state.  Hunting them has become popular enough that the DNR says there’s a need to teach people the rules and best practices. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

Wisconsin has some great cheeses, but apparently it doesn’t have the best cheese in the world. That goes to a Swiss cheesemaker who won this year’s World Championship Cheese Contest for its Hornbacker cheese. The Mountain Dairy Fritzenhaus in Bern, Switzerland also took top honors in 2020 and 2022. Wisconsin cheese makers took top honors in 39 of the 142 categories. The contest has been hosted by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association since 1957 and had over three thousand entries

The mother of missing three-year-old boy Elijah Vue is facing upgraded charges after a court appearance this morning. One of his mother, Katrina Baur’s, new charges is related to a six-year-old child — not Vue. Her boyfriend, Jesse Vang, is also facing a felony charge for Vue’s disappearance and will be in court next week. The child was last seen on February 20 in Two Rivers. The reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest or finding Elijah

The deadline is extended for Northern Wisconsin businesses affected by less snow than usual last winter to apply for assistance. Some businesses saw economic struggles after the lack of snow, particularly because of reduced winter tourists. Businesses in most counties will now be able to apply for the general disaster loan program until July 31. Some counties will have until the fall.

Top performing high school students will earn direct admittance into the Universities of Wisconsin system. The Wisconsin Guarantee will give automatic acceptance to UW-Madison for the top five percent of eleventh graders in the state. The top ten percent will get acceptance into the other twelve UW campuses. The program fulfills the requirements of a bill recently signed by Governor Tony Evers that requires a state guaranteed admission program. UW President Jay Rothman says it’ll help keep the best students

Wisconsin Business World announced three winners of the Fall 2023 Innovation Competition. The twice-annual contest, sponsored by Kwik Trip, tasks students to innovate a new product for the Kwik Trip convenience stores, create a marketing plan and present the idea in the format of their choice. From tea, to a juice machine, to a cookbook these big ideas were tops. You can see the full product videos with a click on their names below: The winners of the Innovation Competition: