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Rail line revival efforts continue

Rail line revival efforts continue Rail line revival efforts continue
At the latest quarterly Dairyland Rail Commission (DRC) meeting, members received updates on the effort to reinstate rail service on the line from Spencer to Medford. The meeting was held last Wedn...
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Districts receive new state grant for recovery school

A new recovery high school for students struggling with addiction is one step closer to becoming a reality after the Abbotsford and Colby school districts found out Monday that they will be receiving a $187,500 state grant to implement the idea this fall. Abbotsford superintendent Ryan Bargender announced the news to his school board at Monday’s monthly meeting, and also mentioned that a poss...

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Colby K-12 adds testing
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Colby K-12 adds testing

Additional testing to help find gaps at the high school level will soon be implemented at the Colby ...

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Dorchester approves new accounting program

The Dorchester Village Board decided last Wednesday to move forward with the purchase of a new software that can be used for accounting, payroll and other logistical needs of the village. The new software, Workhorse, was created and is maintained by Workhorse Software Services, Inc. in Wausau. Justin Nelson, a representative for Workhorse, was asked to present at last Wednesday’s meeting afte...

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Hub City Wind talks continue

Residents in southwestern Marathon County continued to call for a moratorium on large-scale wind projects last week as the county’s special working group forged ahead with preparing to negotiate a joint development agreement (JDA) with Alliant Energy on the proposed Hub City Wind Farm. The second meeting of the Alternative Energy Project Local Impact Advisory Committee featured ongoing discus...

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Kelley looks to build new office in Abby
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Kelley looks to build new office in Abby

A Colby-based business is looking to build a new corporate office in Abbotsford’s western industri...

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Marathon County to consider data center moratorium

Marathon County board members are being asked to consider a 12-month moratorium on data center construction so that zoning staff have time to research regulations on a booming technology that’s needed to meet the demands of artificial intelligence. No proposals for a large-scale data center have come before the county at this point, but the county’s Conservation, Planning and Zoning (CPZ) D...

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