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Staff from the joint Kimberly/Little Chute Library will join the Kimberly Library staff when it opens on Jan. 4 with continued curb service and planning for welcoming patrons to the facility in the near future.

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, announced a contract with Vault Medical Services that will add an additional tool to the Wisconsin COVID-19 testing toolbox. At-home COVID-19 saliva collection kits are now available to everyone who lives in Wisconsin, with or without symptoms, at no cost.

Next year, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and newly elected lawmakers likely will confront the state’s toughest budget challenge since 2011.

President & CEO Sondra Norder of St. Paul Elder Services, Inc. continues to ask for the community’s help in keeping the COVID-19 virus under control. Residents and staff at the elder services campus were hit hard by the virus this fall but things have settled down in the early part of winter.

The Little Chute Area School District has launched another search for a new district administrator to replace David Botz, who is retiring in June 2021 after more than 26 years with the district.

Gov. Tony Evers will deliver the upcoming State of the State address and biennial budget message virtually as COVID-19 continues to surge across the state. The State of the State address is delivered at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 12, and the budget message is delivered at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 16.

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?