Marathon County Board seats open
Eighteen of 38 Marathon County supervisors will face opposition in the April election. The contests will be between: District 1: Incumbent Michelle Van Krey, Wausau, and Christopher Wood, Wausau.
District 6: Incumbent Jeff Johnson, Wausau, and Stacey Morache, Wausau.
District 7: Incumbent Becky Buch, Wausau, and Alex Eichter, Wausau.
District 8: Kim Ungerer, Wausau, and Veronica Hope, Wausau.
District 9: Incumbent David Oberbeck, Wausau, and Johnny Fortenberry, Wausau.
District 11: Incumbent Alyson Leahy, Wausau, and Randy DeBroux, Wausau.
District 13: James Juedes, Ringle, and Mike Ritter, Ringle.
District 15: Incumbent Randy Fifrick, Kronenwetter, and Joel Straub, Kronenwetter.
District 16: Incumbent Bill Conway, Schofield, and Tony Sherfinski, Schofield.
District 17: Incumbent Jennifer Aarrestad, Rothschild, and Cheryl Martino, Rothschild.
District 21: Incumbent Thomas Rosenberg, Weston, and Dave Dailey, Weston.
District 22: Mark Mahoney, Weston, and Jasper Hartinger, Schofield.
District 23: Incumbent Chris Voll, Kronenwetter, and David Baker, Kronenwetter.
District 25: Sandi Cihlar, Mosinee, and Timothy Sondelski, Mosinee. District 30: Richard Gumz, Dorchester, and Andrew Venzke, Abbotsford.
District 33: Incumbent Tim Buttke, Wausau, and Ron Covelli, Wausau.
District 34: Incumbent Gary Beastrom, Athens, and Jason Wilhelm, Athens.
District 38: Incumbent Jonathon Fischer, Wausau, and Bobby Niemeyer, Wausau.
Candidates for county board who will not face opposition include: District 3: Kody Hart, Wausau.
District 4: Incumbent John Robinson, Wausau.
District 5: Gary Gisselman, Wausau.
District 10: incumbent Donna Krause, Wausau.
District 12: Incumbent Matt Bootz, Wausau.
District 14: Incumbent Rick Seefeldt, Eland.
District 18: Incumbent Craig McEwan, Schofield.
District 19: Incumbent Yee Leng Xiong, Weston.
District 20: Gayle Marshall, Weston. District 24: Incumbent Brent Jacobson, Mosinee.
District 26: Incumbent Jean Maszk, Mosinee.
District 27: Incumbent Thomas Seubert, Stratford.
District 28: Incumbent Dennis Gonnering, Marshfield.
District 29: Incumbent Chris Dickinson, Stratford.
District 31: Incumbent Allen Drabek, Edgar.
District 32: Incumbent Kurt Gibbs, Marathon.
District 35: Incumbent Jacob Langenhahn, Marathon.
District 36: Incumbent Bruce Lamont, Wausau.
District 37: Incumbent Allen Opall, Wausau.
Delayed deadline
On Wednesday, Marathon County Clerk Kim Trueblood announced that incumbents Brent Jacobson (District 24) and Jennifer Bizzotto (District 2) had not either filed non-candidacy papers or filed to be on the spring ballot. The deadline for declaring a candidacy in those districts has been extended to Friday, Jan. 7.
Candidate Destiny Goretski, Wausau, has submitted papers to run for the District 2 supervisor’s seat.