Abby hires new delegated building inspector

For at least 20 years, a pile of tires was allowed to accumulate in the town of Mayville. Now, three years after it was discovered by a DNR agent, town officials are still working to clean it up. The pile is located at the end of a tree-lined road, south of Center Road and east of Sandhill Road, on land that used to be the town dump. Satellite images from Google Earth make it possible to see...

A strong majority of Marathon County supervisors on Tuesday lent their support to a resolution calling for more local control over wind and solar operations. By a vote of 27-7, the county board approved a resolution asking the Wisconsin Counties Association (WCA) to lobby the state legislature and governor “to support any and all efforts and legislation that would give local elected bodies gr...

A fatal workplace accident at Abbyland Foods last Wednesday was not called into 911 until three hours after it occurred, according to local authorities who said a night shift worker fell into a 20-foot tank and went unnoticed for two hours before fellow workers spent another hour looking for him. Initial autopsy results indicate the employee died as the result of drowning. Central Fire and E...