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Data shows the most popular Valentine’s Day candy in Wisconsin is a heart-shaped box of chocolates.  Candy-store-dot-com says second and third in Wisconsin are M and M’s and conversation hearts.  Candy-store-dot-com says it uses 15 years of online bulk candy sales data to determine the most popular Valentine’s Day candy in each state.  It says a record 57-percent of consumers are expected to buy Valentine’s Day candy this year.

The Chippewa County Dairy Promoters Inc. will hold their annual meeting on Thursday, March 2, at 11:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at the Back 40 Dining and Cocktails, 19037 ST HWY 40, Bloomer. Pizza lunch will be provided courtesy of Chippewa Valley Financial Services, LLC. The meeting will include reports, promotional activities of the committees, and the election of officers and directors. The program is designed to aid grassroots dairy promotion efforts in Chippewa County. Anyone interested in

Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin announced that Wisconsin will receive over $25.2 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants and forever chemicals, like per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. Senator Baldwin voted for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021.  “This investment will put Wisconsin to work helping our small and rural communities address PFAS contamination so we can provide safe and clean drinking water to people across the

Included in Governor Tony Evers’ budget is a plan to keep the Brewers in Milwaukee.  Today the governor said he wants to spend 290-million dollars on repairs to American Family Field.  However, in order for the repairs to be made the team would have to extend its lease on the stadium until at least 2043.  Evers says the money for the stadium would come from the state’s budget surplus.  His full budget will be released tomorrow.

Due to poor weather conditions and rain forecasted for this evening, the Luminary Hike for Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Hamus Park in Marshfield is canceled.  You are invited to instead join next week for the next hike beginning at 6 PM in Weber Park.   

The winner of the biggest Powerball jackpot in history is finally coming forward.  The California Lottery is planning to reveal the winner at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time.  The winning ticket worth just over two-billion dollars was sold in November in a Los Angeles suburb.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to the ruling on UW-Health’s nurses’ union. The justices yesterday refused to accept the case. SEIU wanted the Supreme Court to decide if UW-health must recognize its nurses union. Wisconsin’s Employment Relations Commission ruled back in November that it did not. Nurses are fighting for union representation, but the hospital is exempt from the state’s union laws, and can recognize the union if it wants, but the hospital is not required to recognize the

The jets that shot down the Lake Huron object were from Madison, but the pilots were from Minnesota. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz yesterday said pilots from Minnesota National Guard’s 148th Fighter Wing flew the mission and downed the object Sunday. The Minnesota pilots are stationed at Truax Field in Madison as part of a full time NORAD detachment. A White House spokesman yesterday said the object was not alien, but didn’t say what it was.

It’s prison time for the Eau Claire man who stole guns, ammo, and some rocket launchers. A judge in Eau Claire yesterday gave 53-year-old Shaun Galloway five years in prison. Galloway pleaded no contest to charges that he stole 15 guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, and rocket launchers during a break-in  in the town of Drammen last fall. Two other people in the case have already pleaded guilty as well, they’re due to be sentenced next month.

Police in Chippewa Falls think they have a serial catalytic converter thief behind bars. Officers yesterday said they’ve arrested 33-year-old Brandon Gee. He’s wanted in connection to 15 different catalytic converter thefts in the area. Gee is also wanted for burglary and other crimes in Eau Claire, and is wanted in Dunn County as well. Chippewa Falls detectives say more charges in more cases could be coming.