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Marathon Public Schools has announced that two people among 850 students and staff have confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Jan. 10. There are 25 people on a close contact watch list. The school system has had 119 positive cases of coronavirus since the start of the school year.
Spelling bee
Marathon Area Elementary School and Marathon Venture Academy held classroom spelling bees during the month of December 2021. The winners will move on to school level spelling bees. The classroom winners were: Fourth grade: Dylan Freund, Westin Berens, Maddie Myers, Jackson Wegner, Henry Albrecht, Nola Narlock.
Fifth grade: Max Lawrence, Kamrie Myszka, Ava Zahrt, Skylar Robbins, Westin Kleist, Riley Pestka.
Sixth grade: Asher Adamski, Adessah Arneson, Kali Sullivan, Brayden Krautkramer.
Seventh grade: Kayla Freund, Brooke Lang, Leo Narlock, Jace Ostrowski.
Eighth grade: Reed McCain, Jaden Her, Emma Love, Isaiah Hunter.
Tech talk
The Marathon Area Elementary School and Marathon Venture Academy PTO will host a family technology talk on “Inspiring Digital Responsibility” on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 5:45 p.m. at the Marathon High School auditorium. For more information or to sign up for child care, go to maesmvapto@gmail.com.
Church council
St. Matthew’s Evangelical Church, Marathon, installed members of its 2022 church council on Jan. 9. They are Tim Schult, president; Lon Heise, vice-president; Paul Fredrickson, secretary; Brian Gumtz, treasurer; Jeff Braunel and Brett Kage, finance; Russell Hornung, building and grounds.
On campus
UW-Stevens Point has announced Marathon students who have earned high grade point averages during the fall semester of the 2020-21 academic year. Full-time undergraduates who earned grade points of 3.90 to 4.0 (4.0 equals straight A) are given the highest honors designation. High honor citations go to those with grade point averages from 3.75 to 3.89 and honor recognition is accorded to those with grade point averages from 3.50 to 3.74.
Students who received honors include: Emma Baeseman, freshman, high honors; Annaleese Berenz, senior, highest honors; Mackenzie Krautkramer, senior, highest honors; Halle Tallitsch, senior, honors; Kaitlyn Rusch, freshman, honors; and Keean Turnquist, sophomore, high honors.
True Crime Book Club
If you’re a fan of true crime books, join a new Marathon County Public Library bi-monthly virtual book club on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. focused on that genre.
Attendees will meet over the lunch hour via the Go-ToMeeting platform to meet some special guests lined up for future book club gatherings. In January, the group will discuss David Grann’s hit book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage murders and the birth of the FBI” (which also has a film adaptation in the works). The book is a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
Between books, podcasts and films, true crime has never been more popular. The club is open to the public and no registration is required.
Retreat Center
St. Anthony’s Retreat Center, Marathon City, will host an anti-bias training series on four Tuesdays in January and February from 6-8 p.m. The title of the series is “Learning To Live and Love Beyond Bias.” The presenter is the Rev. Christa Fischer, a former pastor and now a preacher, speaker, teacher and activist who helps whitebodied Americans enter into the struggle against racism. Raised in a white rural community in northern Wisconsin, she is the mother of two bi-racial children, a former pastor of a jail, chaplain to the homeless and spiritual provider to the sexually exploited and physically abused.
The series will be held on Jan. 25 and Feb. 1, 8 and 15. To register, call 715-443-2236. A free will offering is requested.
Join the Marathon City Branch staff and other literary enthusiasts for a Jan. 10, 2022, discussion of Cormac McCarthy’s classic, “The Road,” about a father and son roaming a post-apocalyptic landscape. The event is set for 5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other.
No registration is required and new people are always welcome to the Marathon Book Club. Call the Marathon City Branch at 715-443-2775 for more information.
Teleidoscope
Stop by the Marathon City Branch Public Library in January to pick up a grab and go kit for young ones to create their own teleidoscope.
The library will provide materials and instructions to create a teleidoscope, which is a version of a kaleidoscope with a lens and an open view. Once children create their teleidoscope and look through it, the world around them will become a kaleidoscope image. The teleidoscope is available while supplies last. One kit per child. Call 715-261-7220 for more information.
Girls basketball
The Little Raider Girls Basketball Clinic will be held on Saturdays, Jan. 15, 22 and 29 in 2022. The session for girls in grades 5K-2 will run from 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. The session for girls in grades 3-4 will run from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Instruction will be given by the Marathon High School girls basketball coaches and players and will be held at the Marathon Area Elementary School gym.
For more information about these Marathon girls basketball activities, contact Jeff Schneider at 715-432-8158 or email jschneider@marathon.k12. wi.us.
