Colby housing construction set for spring

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...

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...