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thens Wrestling at the nest
Athens High School’s wrestling team will host Chequamegon and Stanley-Boyd on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. The theme is “Blue Out,” so fans are asked to wear blue to show their support for the Bluejays. Upon paid admission, Athens MS/HS students will get a ticket for free soda and popcorn from concessions, but they must arrive before the start at 7 p.m.
MCPL Story Time
Bring your entire family to story time at the new Alfred Street location. Children of all ages and their parents or caregivers are invited to join library staff in Athens for this 30-minute program. There will be stories, songs and other literature-based activities during the 30-minute program on Monday, Dec. 4, and Monday, Dec. 11, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.
Senior Card Group
The Senior Citizens card group met on November 16 for weekly card playing at the Athens Area Fire and Ambulance Hall.
Two games of Sheepshead were played. Alvera Henrichs won the first game, and Butch Boris took second. Rick Schaetzl won the second game and Pat Frank took second. Sally Stubbe had the low score.
Newcomers are encouraged to come play Sheepshead every Thursday from 12:30-3:30 p.m. at the Athens fire hall.
E dgar Circle of Joy Giving Tree
The Circle of Joy is sponsoring a “Giving Tree” for the Edgar area at Nicolet National Bank in Edgar. Decorations on the tree have a child’s age, clothing size and gift suggestions. Gifts should be wrapped and returned to the bank by Thursday, Dec. 15.
MCPL Story Time
Children of all ages and their parents and caregivers are invited to join library staff on the first and third Tuesday of the month at the Edgar Branch for family story time. Enjoy learning with your children through stories, songs and other literature-based activities in this 30-minute program, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, and Tuesday, Dec. 19, from 11 to 11:30 a.m.
M arathon Yard decorating contest
The Knights of Columbus are again having their “Keep Christ in Christmas” themed yard decorating contest this year. Judging for the contest will be held on Friday, Dec. 15. A $100 prize will be awarded to the contest winner. To register for the contest, email your name and address to krautaa@ gmail.com.
Circle of Joy Giving Tree
A Circle of Joy Christmas “Giving Tree” will be located at People’s State Bank, Marathon. Ornaments with children’s ages and wish lists have been placed on the tree or are available from tellers. All gifts are to be wrapped and returned to the tree no later than Friday, December 8. If you are interested in participating, pick up a name at People’s State Bank or the village office.
Farmers Market
The following statement was released by Randel and Kerry Wokatsch, Shelley Kage, Dale Oestrich and Barb Parlier: “Year two of Marathon City Farmers Market (MCFM) is already in the books. What a great second year it was! During our peak month of July, there were over 40 vendors in attendance. It was very rewarding for us to see the connections happen between the vendors and the customers. We also noticed a social aspect happening, as random and purposeful gatherings of friends, neighbors and relatives often took place.”
“Once again, the MCFM was blessed with nice weather for most of our market dates.”
“The feedback we’ve received has been overwhelmingly positive. Many have said the MCFM offers much of what larger markets do, with better parking and less chaos. We have accomplished our second year goal of being self-sustaining by balancing our income and expenses without donations.”
“The MCFM Board is already planning for next year. Our number one goal is attracting more customers. If the MCFM has sufficient customers, the vendors we have will stay, and new vendors will want to come. MCFM has worked very hard to facilitate an attractive, organized and vendor/customer friendly market, but the success of MCFM is not only up to us. Our market will go as far and be as successful as our community makes it, and to those of you who have supported the MCFM by attending on Thursday afternoons and have mentioned it to others. We realize we live in an area where many have their own gardens, but the market has much more to offer than just vegetables. Also, we likely have a greater variety of vegetables than your own garden. We will always welcome ideas and suggestions to improve MCFM. See you in June!”
High School Honor Roll
High Honors Ninth grade: Brayden Annis, Cameron Benes, Sawyer Berens, Isabella Bowe, William Bretzke, Kayla Cihlar, Elizabeth Clawson, Sophia Conn, Carleigh Diedrich, Charlie Ehlert, Abigail Falkowski, Aubrey Fieri, Kenley Fischer, Kayla Freund, Landon Hilgart, Kaiya Huggan-Harris, Natilee Hummer, Abram Jacobson, Matthew Kindlarski, Addison Knoeck, Alyssa Kraft, Quillan Kunkel, Annalee Lagan, Sara Marek, Hailey Martin, Madison Matthiae, Velda Mechelke, Jace Ostrowski, Allison Podjaski, Mayven Schneider, Kiearra Schoessow, Andrew Smetak, Morgan Sorge, Aiden Tasche, Greenly Treankler, Frederick Tylinski, Emma Weiler.
Tenth grade: Samuel Altenhofen, Madalyn Blume, Mya Buchberger, Chevy Cook, Celia Ferreira, Mason Fischer, Thomas Glennon, Martin Gruetzmacher, Mylee Haehlke, Adelyn Harris, Luke Hoenish, Ethan Huebsch, John Kahon IV, Alex Kaiser, Brianne King, Anika Kolka, Halle Laabs, Luke Lagen, Emma Love, Christopher Marcell, Gavin Matthiae, Reed McCain, Cassius Ninabuck, Brayden Pinter, Lindsay Putnam, Leah Schulz, Elianna Sladky, Markus Sleiter, Landon Sneider, Blake Sternberg, True Thurs, William Tourtillott, Drew Woelfel, Mya Yach.
Eleventh grade: Addison Baeseman, Gwen Bergman, Kennedy Blake, Shilo Blake, Anna Chesek, Katie Cliver, Calyse Fieri, Aidan Hale, Jayden Henrichs, Braxton Jourdan, Clara Krasselt, Levi Krautkramer, Katie LeBlanc, Jada Linder, Kiley Mader, Wilson Marks, Alexandria Matthiae, Addisen Molepske, Mason Mroczenski, Katherine Paul, Chenpieng Phakitthong, Cody Radtke, Logan Rohland, Cayden Sapinski, Paige Sauter, Emma Scheiderer, Isabella Vardon, Logan Witberler.
Twelfth grade: Ella Altfillisch, Kaitlyn Annis, Luke Aschbrenner, Grace Barnet, Alisha Blenker, Page Blount, Marcos Cruz Bloom, Elizabeth Dzwonkowski, Caroline Fritz, Lily Gage, Giulia Gandolfi, Ashley Gertschen, Brandon Gitzlaff, Jasmin Gonzalez Mujica, Ethan Hackel, Ethan Hale, Hailey Harris, Madison Heise, Tatiana Her, Cooper Hoeksema, Hailey Holbach, Casey Hollenbeck, Carter Holte, Nathaniel Huebsch, Marissa Kaiser, Lauren Karlen, Emily Knoeck, Ava Krueger, Jorey Kunkel, Madisyn Lang, Payton Lawrence, Taylor Lepak, Clayton Marcott, Mallory Ninabuck, Miles O’Keefe, Hunter Patterson, Jacob Plachetka, Reese Richter, Maddison Rusch, Bridget Salber, Logan Schmidt, Dylan Schreiner, Cassidy Seubert, Piper
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Skrzypchak, Jacob Smith, Jacob Sommers, Tyler Underwood, Derek Vesely. Honors Ninth grade: Garrett Bracewell, Owen Chrouser, Lacey Cihlar, Brooke Hall, Ava Handrick, Brooklyn Hartway, Brook Lang, Mason Lawrence, Katelyn Love, Ava Ott, Logan Peters, Kendall Pupp, Morgan Rohland, Ean Schuda, Ripley Skrzypchak, Benjamin Stowell.
Tenth grade: Leah Dodson, Logan Gore, Parker Hale, Aubrey Hein, Jaden Her, Treyten Hornung, Karsan Huebsch, Claire Riesgraf, Grant Salber, Seth Schoessow, Spencer Seubert, Tate Sonnentag, Danica Staus, Swayne Stencil, Riley Werner, Elayne Westphal, Mitchell Zemke.
Eleventh grade: Samuel Deckelman, Morgan Gore, Alexis Hall, Kyla Heise, Mason Heise, Gavin Koch, Blake Kraft, Riley Ott, Danica Paszek, Keirra Pupp, River Stanecki, Alyssa Stowell, Kyana Wise.
Twelfth grade: Andrew Glennon, Edmund Hall, Kyler Hall, Jacob Lepak, Colton Mroczenski, Alex Pawlowicz, Christian Pintor, Lena Putnam, Jordan Rauen, Jacob Rhyner, Aiden Stanek, Grant Warren, Jailyn Weitz.
MCPL Story Time
Children of all ages and their parents and caregivers are invited to the Marathon City library branch for story time. Attendees will read books, sing songs and more during the 30 minutes together.
Story times will be on Thursdays, Dec. 7, 14 and 21, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.
S tratford MCPL Story Time
Children of all ages and their parents and caregivers are invited to the Stratford library branch for story time. Attendees will read books, sing songs and more during the 30 minutes together.
The next dates are Wednesday, Dec. 6 and Wednesday, Dec. 13, from 10:30 to 11 a.m.
Marathon
C ounty Holidays at the Houses
The Marathon County Historical Society will present its annual Holidays at the Houses on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Woodson History Center and Yawkey House Museum will be decorated for the holidays, and visitors will experience the season with live entertainment, children’s activities, and the always popular Friends of Wausau Historic Landmarks’ Sweet Landmarks Gingerbread Contest.
This year’s theme will be “Making Christmas Memories.” What are the things you look forward to doing every year during the holiday season? What reminds you of home? Decorating cookies, caroling, holiday storytime, vintage toy and Barbie displays, decorating a tree, photo fun, coloring contest and, of course, Santa will keep everyone having a festive time while making new memories.
Deer dumpster
The Central Wisconsin Conservation Club Inc, in conjunction with Marathon County Waste Management, is sponsoring a dumpster for the disposal of deer carcass waste (rib cages, heads, legs and fat scrap) during the deer firearms season. The dumpster will be placed in the Edgar Waste Disposal site, located off of East Limits Road. There will also be a separate container placed there for unwanted deer hides, which will be donated to the Lions Camp for the Blind. The dumpster will be there through Dec. 10.
This program is being done as a service to the surrounding communities to help keep the environment cleaner from improperly disposed of in rural ditches. People are asked to only use the dumpster for the waste it is intended for so that the project can continue to grow in the future.
