Edgar K-12 preps for referendum

A 45-year-old Marathon City woman has been charged with solicitation of first-degree homicide after she allegedly asked an acquaintance in Merrill to make the father of her child “disappear.”Angela Mary Volm was charged with the Class B felony in a criminal complaint filed June 16 in Lincoln County Circuit Court. According to the complaint, the Lincoln County authorities started an investigati...

The “bucket challenge” is making a comeback for this year’s budgeting process in Marathon County, but it won’t be anything like the viral trend from a decade ago that involved dumping ice water over someone’s head for a good cause.Instead, members of the county board will be given poker chips that correspond to how much money the county has available, along with buckets that represent th...