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$1.7M contract awarded for 5th St.

Abbotsford’s city council on Monday agreed to add two blocks of road work to a project centered on North Fifth Street, awarding a $1.7 million contract to Haas Sons for reconstructing a total of fou...
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Colby housing construction set for spring

In a meeting last Wednesday evening, the Colby Economic Development Corporation (CEDC) discussed an upcoming housing development on the northeast side of the city, as well as potential opportunities for new businesses to enter the area and what steps can be taken to locate and bring in interested businesses. A group of local business leaders and public officials, the CEDC is an organization tha...

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Soup or Socks plans fundraisers for food shelf
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Soup or Socks plans fundraisers for food shelf

“There’s a lot more food insecurity than people realize. It’s everywhere and, with the price o...

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Colby K-12 approves 2026-27 calendar
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Colby K-12 approves 2026-27 calendar

The Colby School District’s 2026-2027 calendar will not be drastically different from prior years ...

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Town of Mayville working to remove large pile of tires

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...

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County calls for more local control

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...

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Abby hires new delegated building inspector

Abbotsford officials have decided to take a new direction when it comes to doing building inspections. At its latest meeting on Jan. 21, the council voted to hire Pat Kilty and his company Three C’s to handle all of the city’s residential and non-residential inspections. An exception will be made for inspections of any newly built houses and home additions for the rest of this year, which w...

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