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ABOVE PHOTO:This Arabian filly was named Asiya in honor of Patient Care Assistant Asiya Awad. When a colleague told Asiya Awad that a patient had asked her to stop by his room, she expected it was just to visit.  “I’m naming her after you,” Despite their differences in age and culture, Awad and the patient, Larry Jerome, had developed a close friendship and often chatted about their lives and families.  “I call him Mr. Fantastic,” says Awad, who is a patient care

On Saturday, March 25, 2023, at 11:02 p.m., the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a parking complaint on 26th Ave north of Cumberland. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department responded to the area and located a large party at a residence. As a result of the investigation 34 people, ages 17-20, were cited and referred to Prime for Life Class for underage drinking, 3 people were cited for underage drinking second offence and 1 person was cited for hosting/permitting

The CDC says contaminated eye drops now recalled by the FDA have caused three deaths and blindness in at least eight people.   The CDC blames a bacteria known as  Pseudomonas for at least 68 recent eye drop contamination cases in 16 states, some of which have caused death, blindness and corneal infections that don’t respond to medication.  Some patients have even needed surgical removal of their eyeballs.  Dr. Omar Awad, a corneal transplant expert in Minnesota, says he’s concerned that many people will be afraid to

The Chippewa County Historical Society will bring back a local tradition this spring. The Past Passed Here, the society’s popular fur-trade and logging-era re-enactment is back on the calendar for the public, May 12-14, at Marshall Park in Chippewa Falls. Experience a wide variety of demonstrators including blacksmiths, cast-iron cooking, fiber art making, fur traders and wood carvers. Hands-on activities include archery, atlatl, cat and mouse balance game, canoe paddle race, flint and steel fire starting, lacrosse and tomahawk throwing.

The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley Barracudas Swim Team took 1st place in Overall Team and 1st place in Overall Female Team at the Wisconsin/Upper Michigan YMCA State Swim Meet this past weekend atSchroeder YMCA in Brown Deer, Wisconsin. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley Barracudas Swim Team program focuses on the development of swimmers of all ages and abilities. ​Advancing past the state meet, 5 individuals will be heading to the 2023 YMCA National Swimming Championship Meet in Greensboro,

On Saturday, April 1, 2023, Volume One will revive its citywide April Fools’ Day Pillow Fight in downtown Eau Claire, WI after a short hiatus. It’s “Five Minutes of Feathery Fury” – a short but lively celebration of foolishness where the feathers fly in a five-minute pillow fight with the entire city invited. Pillow Fight Details CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

A suspect in the cold case murder of a man from Cypress is in custody.  Sixty-three-year-old Kelvin Keith Emmons from De Pere, Wisconsin, was arrested earlier this month, charged with murder in the 1988 death of Angel Martinez.  Martinez’s body was discovered in Arizona on June 20th, 1988, two weeks after his wife had reported him missing.  Emmons is now awaiting extradition to San Bernardino County where he will be tried for Martinez’s death.  

A house fire in the Town of Washington has left the home and its attached garage a complete loss, but no one was hurt. The fire happened Saturday night in the six-thousand block of Hillside Park Road and it took firefighters around four hours to put out the flames. They returned just before 9 a.m. after the fire rekindled. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

A Black River Falls woman is being held on a cash bond of a million-dollars in a Jackson County murder case. Forty-nine-year-old Star Myers is accused of killing a man after he told her he had slept with other women and police say she and four others are charged with hiding his body. Myers appeared in court via Zoom Friday, as she is currently serving a sentence for meth distribution.

Dairyland Power CEO Brent Ridge has been appointed to the policy advising task force at the Nuclear Energy Institute. The task force is charged with guiding the institute on policy related to spent nuclear fuel. Ridge says nuclear energy has to be part of the discussion on climate change, noting it needs to be part of the equation for carbon-free or low-carbon emission power along with being reliable and affordable. Dairyland powers around 600-thousand homes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.