Marathon considers using shot clocks

After years of struggling to get their emergency pagers to work consistently with Marathon County’s dispatch center, members of the Edgar Fire Department have been asked to try using a smartphone app that has proven effective for other Wausau-area fire departments. The Phoenix G2 Fire Station Alerting mobile app was already being used by the Wausau, Riverside and SAFER fire departments before...

Edgar’s elected officials on Monday decided to hold off on signing up for a squad vehicle purchasing partnership offered through the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department. In response to an email from county administrator Lance Leonhard offering to provide squad vehicle “upfitting” for local police departments, village administrator Jennifer Lopez came to the village board to see if trus...

With this past summer’s Street of Dreams car show successfully expanding into a multi-faceted event with live music and vendors, talk of bringing back an annual parade has now reached the village board.   up to $5 million in work on Legacy and Legion streets next summer, with the work split into four distinct projects for planning and funding purposes. Besides the CDBG, the village ha...