60th Annual Colby Cheese Days this weekend

A 30-year-old woman was sentenced to four years in state prison Monday following an incident last summer in which she shot at a car driving away from her in Abbotsford. Wanda I. Roza Collazo, who is already an an inmate at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac, pled guilty earlier this year to first-degree recklessly endangering safety and reckless use of a firearm related to a Jul...

Twenty steers, estimated to be worth $50,000, were stolen from Kingdom Haven Farm in the town of Frankfort last week, touching off a social media plea for the public’s help in finding the perpetrators. According to a report from the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were dispatched to the farm at 223172 STH 97 on the evening of July 8 after the owners reported that someone had ...

Before voting to approve a 202-page report on community concerns surrounding the proposed Hub City Wind project and the potential for a joint development agreement (JDA) with Alliant Energy, a Marathon County advisory committee added a caveat: many people simply don’t want the county to even consider a JDA. At its final meeting last Thursday, the Alternative Energy Project Local Impact Adviso...