Stratford picks trustee to be new village president

Marathon County has decided to join a multi-state lawsuit against the makers of socalled “forever chemicals,” with the hopes of collecting money from a settlement that could be used to treat toxic chemicals at its landfill or to clean up any contamination at Central Wisconsin Airport left behind by a discontinued firefighting foam.The county board voted on Tuesday to join multi-district litiga...

Marathon County supervisors spent their last half hour together of 2025 debating a $5,000 request from a non-profit economic development group looking to do a market analysis and site study to attract large businesses to Central Wisconsin.The argument at last Thursday’s county board meeting came down to a question of whether the county should be giving tax dollars to a private entity that is not...