County budget unveiled

The Edgar School District’s director of buildings and grounds gave the school board an update earlier this month on the recently remodeled Family Consumer Science classroom. At the board’s Sept. 15 meeting, Rob Rauen showed board members the classroom’s new desks and chairs, along with the new wood cabinets and flooring installed by his maintenance crew. The kitchen area still needs to be...

Multiple farmers from western Marathon County who said they were initially opposed to the county limiting their ability to spread manure during the winter helped convince the county board last week to do exactly that. Years of effort to rein in the practice of spraying liquid manure on frozen ground finally produced a major compromise last Thursday, with the board voting 28-4 to adopt a landmar...

When it comes to dealing with the proposed Hub City Wind project near Stratford, the words “joint development agreement” continue to be taboo for many in Marathon County government. Instead, a new course of action proposed by the county’s Executive Committee calls for the county board to ask Alliant Energy for a “contractual agreement” by Nov. 1 to address county residents’ many con...