Abby K-12 approves co-pays for employees

Firefighters who respond to fires at lithium-ion battery storage units and other energy facilities are likely to be very limited in what they can do to extinguish the flames, according to Phillip Rentmeester, Marathon County’s emergency management director. “The current guidance for firefighting on this is to let it burn,” he said at a Public Safety Committee meeting last Tuesday. “Isol...

The Colby School Board approved a motion on Monday to move forward with the co-establishment of a recovery school in conjunction with the Abbotsford School District. Should an implementation grant from the state be awarded, the new recovery school could be up and running as soon as the fall of 2026. The recovery school would provide a place for high school students who have dealt with substa...