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The Green Waste Facility located at 5710 Jeffers Road will open for the season on Saturday, April 15, 2023. The facility will be open Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:00am-6:00pm, and on Saturdays from 8:00am-3:00pm. Due to street reconstruction on Jeffers Road in April through August 2023, the Green Waste Facility can only be accessed from the north. Please follow posted detour signs to access the site. The Green Waste Facility on Jeffers Road provides an environmentally friendly solution for residents

ABOVE PHOTO: Vince Mussehl, CVTC director of Library Services, is appointed to the national Open Educational Resources SPARC Committee to represent two-year colleges. When Vince Mussehl was a student at Chippewa Valley Technical College 15 years ago, he struggled to pay for textbooks. “I remember applying for an Amazon credit card just so I could save $50 off my first book purchase,” he said. “Of course, the $50 was no real savings after I finished paying off the interest.” One

ABOVE PHOTO: The animation and digital media program at UW-Stout is ranked No. 1 in Wisconsin among public universities. Three programs from University of Wisconsin-Stout’s School of Art and Design are the best in the state, according to new national rankings. Ranked No. 1 in Wisconsin are two Bachelor of Fine Arts programs: game design and development-art; and animation and digital media, along with the Master of Fine Arts in design. The rankings are by Princeton Review and Animation Career

Laquiesh Andrea Smith, 34 years of age, from Las Cruces, New Mexico has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with two children in the vehicle under the age of 16. On April 10, 2023, at approximately 7:56 pm a Wisconsin State Trooper stopped a westbound vehicle for speeding on I-94 near mile marker 31 in St. Croix County. Upon approach, the Trooper detected the odor of

The names of both of the police officers who were killed in the line of duty in Barron County over the weekend are being released.   Below is the release from Chetek and Cameron Departments: It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that Chief Ron Ambrozaitis of the Chetek Police Department, and Chief Adam Steffen of the Cameron Police Department inform you of the passing of Officer Hunter Scheel, age 23, of the Cameron Police Department and Emily Breidenbach,

We have a few more answers about the deadly weekend shootout in western Wisconsin that killed two police officers. The state’s Department of Justice yesterday identified the officers as Emily Breidenbach, of the Chetek Police Department, and Hunter Scheel, of the Cameron Police Department. Breidenbach was a five-year veteran with the Chetek PD, while Scheel was a rookie. Investigators also identified the man who allegedly shot the two officers as 50-year-old Glenn Perry. The DOJ says the officers pulled Perry over because

Two brothers and a sister are now facing federal charges after investigators say they were selling homemade flashbang grenades out of their house in Kenosha County. Erik and James Kustales and Melissa Simmons were arrested in March, and federal agents found nearly 300 explosive devices, more than one hundred pounds of chemicals to make explosives, dozens of guns, including several unregistered, fully-automatic machine guns, and nearly 20 pounds of marijuana. The Justice Department says an informant led them to the

Gas prices in the Chippewa Valley are on the way up. Triple-A says the average price for a gallon of regular in Eau Claire is now three-dollars and 48-cents. That’s up 22 cents from last week. Three-dollars and 48-cents per-gallon is also Triple-A’s statewide average price. While gas is more expensive than a week ago, Triple-A says it’s still cheaper than last year. At this point last year, drivers in Eau Claire were paying three-dollars and 66-cents per-gallon.

There is a plan at the Wisconsin Capitol that would allow people to carry a gun inside a school. State Rep. Scott Allen is looking for lawmakers to sign on to the plan. Allen says the idea is to allow local school boards to set their own rules about guns in school. He says the idea came from Germantown’s school board which asked him to change Wisconsin’s concealed carry laws. Allen says schools are ‘soft targets’ for mass shootings, and says his plan

Wisconsin lawmakers are scheduled to take the first step today toward banning a ban on gas stoves. The Assembly’s Committee on State Affairs has a hearing scheduled for later this afternoon on a plan that would regulate ‘restrictions on the sale or use of a device based on its energy source.’ The pan is from Clinton state Rep. Ellen Schutt, and comes after several cities or states have opened the door to bans on gas stoves. The Biden Administration is even