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The Wisconsin National Guard has approved the extension of its COVID-19 testing operations in Appleton and Oshkosh. Previously all WING COVID-19 testing sites were scheduled to end Dec. 10.

The WING COVID-19 testing site in Menasha will not continue operations.

An election will be held on Tuesday, April 6, for municipal offices. The first day to circulate nomination papers was Dec. 1, and the final day for filing nomination papers is 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 5, in the various jurisdictions.

If a primary is necessary, the primary is held on Tuesday, Feb. 16.

Many churches in the Heart of the Valley are requiring pre-registration for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services Thursday and Friday.

Developing herd immunity is heralded as one pathway to containing the coronavirus pandemic. What is herd immunity, how is it achieved and will it work to contain COVID-19, the disease resulting from the coronavirus?

With fall arriving, winter on its way and COVID-19 still spreading in Wisconsin, people may be worried about what to do when the cold weather sends them indoors.

Calumet County and surrounding county residents have two more weekends, including Christmas  Night, to attend the Delightfully Calumet Holiday Light Show at Hobart Park/Calumet County Fairgrounds located at 231 Chestnut Street in Chilton.   

With the ending of the Wisconsin National Guard testing sites, Calumet County has secured ThedaCareMobile to administer COVID testing on an appointment basis.

Even as the nation saw an unprecedented drop in driving at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wisconsin recorded a significant increase in fatal car crashes and crash fatalities during the initial months of the crisis.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a terrible impact: it’s killed nearly a million and a half people worldwide, and more than a quarter million in the United States.

Gov. Tony Evers, along with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, announced that restaurants and other targeted small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will receive $45 million in assistance, bringing the total assistance distributed to Wisconsin businesses this year to more than $220 million.