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Marathon faces competing budget demands

Money needed for fire engine repair (or replacement), new ballpark signs

Marathon City trustees were hit with a double-dose of unexpected bad news at a special village board earlier this month.

First, fire chief Darrin Hall told board members that the departmentâ€...

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