Superintendent’s Corner:

Committee recommends against negotiating with Alliant Energy...

The Athens Board of Education on Monday decided to stick with a request of up to $600,000 from voters as part of four-year, non-recurring operational referendum in November. Quarles & Brady, the district’s bond company, will come up with the language of a resolution for the board to vote at its Aug. 17 meeting to meet the state’s deadline for the Nov. 3 ballot.Board members discussed the p...

Twenty steers, estimated to be worth $50,000, were stolen from Kingdom Haven Farm in the town of Frankfort last week, touching off a social media plea for the public’s help in finding the perpetrators.According to a report from the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were dispatched to the farm at 223172 STH 97 on the evening of July 8 after the owners reported that someone had ente...