Abbotsford adopts e-bike ordinance

Abbyland Foods has been fined a total of $33,100 for workplace safety violations following the death of an employee who died after falling into a dip tank at the company’s wastewater treatment facilities in January. The Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) issued the fines earlier this year after investigating the circumstances that led to the Jan. 14 death of a 59-year-old emplo...

Marathon County is hoping for “something of substance” from Alliant Energy after the county board voted last Thursday to give the company until Nov. 1 to provide a proposed contractual agreement that will address county residents’many concerns about the Hub City Wind project planned for the Stratford area. By a vote of 24-7 at a special meeting on Oct. 1, board members approved a resoluti...

The amount of property taxes owed to Marathon County would go up by about $53 next year for the owner of an average-priced house valued at roughly $270,000, according to a proposed budget presented Tuesday by county administrator Lance Leonhard. As he has done in the past, Leonhard put the numbers in perspective by splitting the proposed annual tax bill of roughly $937 into 12 equal installment...