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The Senior Citizens card group met on Dec. 11 for weekly card playing at the Athens Area Fire and Ambulance Hall.

Three games of Sheepshead were played. Tom Ellenbecker won first place and Da...

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Historical Society establishes Gisselman Scholarship Fund

The Marathon County Historical Society has established the Gary L. Gisselman Scholarship Fund, created to celebrate, uplift, and carry forward the extraordinary legacy of longtime community leader, historian, and public servant Gary L. Gisselman.The scholarship, which is housed at the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin, will be awarded each spring to a graduating high school senior in...

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2000 – Stone soup recipe Andrea Kulas, Athens, prepares drop dumplings for “stone soup” in the St. Anthony’s Catholic School hall. Participants enjoyed homemade soup and games. Christmas caroling was cancelled due to poor weather conditions.
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Book offers a much-need conversation about men, boys
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Book offers a much-need conversation about men, boys

As a guy who made a living writing my own words and editing the work of others, I am biased and I kn...

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Consider running for local office in April

It is December 2025 in America, do you know who your city council member is? How about your school board members or county board representative?Newscasts and headlines focus on state and national headlines and the decision-makers whose wisdom (or foolishness, depending on your perspective) guides policy and actions at those levels. Americans are barraged with a constant stream of breaking news cov...

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Athens K-12 to delay referendum until November 2026

The Athens Board of Education decided on Monday to hold off on asking school district voters to pass an operational referendum until November of next year, instead of this upcoming spring. The district is currently in the third year of a four year non-recurring operational referendum that voters passed in spring of 2023, authorizing the district to exceed the revenue limit by $1.6 million in the 2...

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RFPs prepped for county’s Wausau properties

Multiple county-owned buildings along the east bank of the Wisconsin River in Wausau will go up for sale next year under a redevelopment plan overseen by the 38-member Marathon County Board of Supervisors.To ensure an orderly process for receiving and evaluating development proposals, the board will be asked to approve requests for proposals (RFPs) on Thursday to be sent out early next month, with...

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