Marathon News

Nov. 9, 2009 6:02 a.m. The Milwaukee County Board takes action on the 2010 budget starting at 8:30 a.m. today and supervisors are being told to plan for a session that stretches well into the evening hours.

The Oconto Hospital Foundation announced last week that it purchased the Bond Community Center located at 1201 Park Avenue in Oconto.

Jail officials in Marathon and Lincoln counties say they are closely monitoring inmates to ensure that any prisoner with swine flu is quickly identified and isolated.

The local chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for a hero. Actually, it's searching for several heroes to honor in the spring at its 2010 Real Heroes Awards Banquet.

Wisconsin drivers better keep their eyes open this month, because November is typically when roughly 25 percent of all automobile-deer crashes are reported.

Sylvester and Ruth Volhard celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary with a family dinner on a beautiful Sunday in August.

Every community in the area, except for Edgar, is holding Halloween on Saturday this year.

Living up to its possibilities as a shootout, the SPASH and Oshkosh West Level 1 game has been full of offense through one half of play.

On Oct. 20, 2009, Suzette 'Susie' Lucille Matis went to heaven to join her heavenly Father.

Mosinee resident Suzette "Susie" Matis was known to many as a selfless person who enjoyed getting involved in her community and changing the lives of those around her.

Farmers, town officials, planning commission members and other interested parties are invited to participate in one of six working lands workshops scheduled for the last week of October and the first week of November to learn more about Wisconsin's new tools to preserve agricultural land.

LaVerna Josephine Knoedler, 81, 708 10th St., Mosinee, died Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, at Saint Clare's Hospital, Weston.

The 7th and 8th grade students at Marathon Area Elementary School have a "one up" on the competition, when it comes to learning about broadcast journalism.

The chairman of the Marathon County Board will serve on a body that advises the state on the conservation of farmland.

A Wisconsin lawmaker wants to make it cheaper for people to scoop up fresh road kill and fill their freezers or decorate their mantles.

Elvis is alive, and his half-sister is coming to town. It's a long story, involving conspiracies and cover-ups, love-children, DNA tests and the courts.

Oct. 17, 2009 8:04 p.m. A central-city gas station where two aspiring basketball stars were gunned down this year could have its hours curtailed, Common Council President Willie Hines Jr.

Joseph Peter Falkowski's family is announcing their loved one's passing Thursday, Oct.

Libraries can begin a lifelong love of reading in kids, or help sustain it in adults, but without a good library, that can be hard to do.

A former Marathon County sheriff's dispatcher accused of choking his ex-girlfriend reached a plea agreement with prosecutors today and will be sentenced Tuesday morning.