Bob Look, a Democrat from Rothschild and a former radio broadcaster, is running against Mosinee businessman Cory Tomczyk, a Republican, for the 29th District state senate seat vacated by the retiring Jerry Petrowski, Marathon. Look, a native of South Milwaukee, grew up in a Polish blue collar household and, after graduating from South Milwaukee High School, enrolled in the Institute of Broadcast

Dr. Nathan Lehman, Stratford schools superintendent, last week Wednesday told the Stratford Board of Education that it has used district savings to pay for recent maintenance projects. He said the school district took money from Fund 46 to pay for a new section of roof above the middle/high school library and commons area, a newlyseeded grass football field with a drainage system and a new polyurethane

The Marathon Board of Education last week Wednesday agreed to have a therapy dog at Marathon Area Elementary School (MAES)/Marathon Venture Academy (MVA). The dog is Eva, a one-year-old German Shepherd, owned by school guidance counselor Emily Altmann. In a presentation to the board, Altmann said the certified therapy dog will be available to help students deal with anxiety and stress,

The Edgar Village Board on Monday voted to gather quotes from commercial lawn mowing businesses as it figures out how to budget for village mowing in 2023. Currently, the village owns a $40,000 lawn mower and hires an employee to cut lawn in the village’s numerous parks. Trustees said, however, they were open to seeing what it would cost to have a private firm do the work. “I’d

By: Mark Walters Operation Musky 2022 Hello friends: This was at least the 20th year in a row that I was in what could be best described as a very fun weekend of musky fishing where several veterans and a whole bunch of guys “The Red Brush Gang” and some other friends, a total of 32, got together on the Eagle River chain of lakes. Back in the day most of us put in our time at Truax Field

The Marathon City Village Board last week Wednesday voted to draft an ordinance that would allow ATV/ UTVs on public streets. Trustees directed administrator Andy Kurtz to use Marathon County’s ordinance as a model for a village policy. Trustees left undecided the question of whether to allow ATV/ UTVs on STH 107 or whether to ban the vehicles on this busy state highway and, perhaps, on other

The Athens Village Board on Monday voted to rezone almost seven acres of land to allow SC Swiderski in Mosinee to start construction next spring on an apartment building complex with 64 units. Zoning for this parcel of land was changed from R-3 Two Family to R-4 Multiple Family to allow for the apartment building complex. The village board also voted to approve the sanitary sewer for SC Swiderski’s