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Best Community Advocacy Organization

Every community needs organizations – nonprofits, businesses, government agencies, or other groups – that strengthen the social fabric and improve our lives. This year...

Best Employer

The Chippewa Valley is fortunate to have a vibrant, diverse economy, which plenty of employers large and small who treat their employees well. This past year, PESI (3839 White...

Best Local Business Advocate

Advocating for local businesses doesn’t just mean looking out for your own firm’s bottom line; it’s about realizing that a rising economic tide lifts all boats...

Best Networking Group or Event

Achieving your goals and making life better for the community around you often starts with joining a team. Readers say that Polka Dot Powerhouse, a global but Eau Claire-based...

Best Project in Progress Last Year

The cheer you heard back in January was coming from youngsters and grown-ups alike when the brand-new Children’s...

Best Shop Pet

You’ve arrived at the most important category: best shop pet! Frolicking into first is the dashing Mr. Fluffypants...

Best Teacher / Professor

Every year our readers cite our school teachers as the most “underrated thing” in the Valley – and...

Best Thing

While this category continues to elicit eye rolls from English teachers everywhere (SPECIFIC WORD CHOICE, PEOPLE!)...

Best Use of Taxpayer Dollars Last Year

As much as people love to complain about taxes, they love to use public services, too. In the case of these three...

Best Volunteer Opportunity

The greatest gift anyone can give from is their time and care. Volunteering is an amazing way to give this gift, and...

Biggest Thing We Should Make Happen Soon

If nothing else, the past handful of years has proven that the Chippewa Valley is more than capable of making big things...

Favorite Local Nonprofit

It’s important to highlight the people and organizations that make the Chippewa Valley such an incredible place to...

Most Bizarre Local News Story

Are you sitting down? Because these events that made the headlines in 2022 might just make you dizzy. News that an Eau...

Most Disappointing Thing in the Past Year

When we asked readers to cast their votes in this category, they let us know they weren’t mad – just...

Most Memorable Happening in the Past Year

The most memorable happening at the Volume One offices this year was when one of our designers went to toss some...

Most Overrated Thing in or About the Valley in the Past Year

Sometimes our love for the Chippewa Valley might lead us to be a tad hyperbolic. We may blow some things a teensy bit...

Most Underrated Thing in or About the Valley in the Past Year

We like to discuss arts and music and the impacts these elements have on our community. While recent strides in these...

Things the Chippewa Valley Has Been Bad At in the Past Year

We could all use some constructive criticism now and again. With that in mind, readers say the Chippewa Valley has been...

Things the Chippewa Valley is Good At

Those who find success often do so by focusing on their strengths, and that formula seems to be paying off for the...

Your Favorite Local Elected Official

Her district may be the 91st, but she’s No. 1 in readers’ hearts: State Rep. Jodi Emerson, D-Eau Claire...

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