Abbotsford News

They are Marisa Frank of Abbotsford, Stacey Riehrer of Auburndale, Amalie Neuman of Colby, Katherine Decker of Loyal, Eden Olson of Marathon and Mike Kibbel of Spencer.

Nicholas R. Giffin has entered basic training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. He is the son of Mary and Thomas Giffin of Abbotsford and is a 1999 graduate of Abbotsford High School.

Marriage licenses * Dean H. Overby, town of Dewhurst, and Margaret N. Waddell, Tomah, at Warren, June 23.

* Justin T. Bargenquast, 18, of 404 Clover St., Withee; speeding and driving with a suspended license; ordered to pay $372. * Valeriano Cruz-Miranda, 22, of 305 N. Second St., Abbotsford; no contest plea; drunken driving, operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license and property damage; driver's license revoked for nine months, ordered to ...

* Kevin J. Boxrucker, 25, of 308 N. Second St., Abbotsford; no contest plea; graffiti; sentence withheld and he was placed on probation for 12 months and is to pay restitution and costs totaling $2,838. * Justin T. Charnas, 19, of 2851 Hendrickson Drive, Eau Claire; guilty; receiving stolen property; sentence withheld and he was placed on ...

Parish to host annual dinner ABBOTSFORD -- The third annual Pork Roast Dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church, 308 W. Linden St., Abbotsford.

Winning $1 million still seems like a dream, said Rafael Ruiz, Jr. of Marshfield.

Following are the menus for area lunch programs for June 8 to June 12. All meals include milk and Nutritional Meals menus include coffee and/or milk.

A Chinese proverb "Don't curse the darkness-light a candle" came to mind as people visited the library this past week expressing concern about the road construction in Colby.

453, Marshfield; guilty plea; drunken driving and second offense operating without a license; two days in jail with work release privileges, fines and costs totaling $1,090, driver's license revoked eight months and he is to attend an alcohol assessment.

Abbotsford High School senior Bailey Klieforth has been named the Abbotsford Lions Club Student of the Quarter for the fourth quarter of the academic year.

NEILLSVILLE -- The 2009 Rural Safety Day was held on May 6 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Neillsville.

Anna B. Schoenfuss, 93, Stratford, died Thursday, May 14, 2009, at Saint Joseph's Palliative Care, Marshfield, with her family by her side.

* At 8:22 p.m. Wednesday, a 32-year-old Nekoosa woman reported the theft of medication from the 100 block of North Section Street in Nekoosa.

Fearing power outages, empty grocery store shelves and food distribution chaos, many Americans are stocking up on canning gear and planting apocalyptic vegetable gardens with potatoes, cabbage, beans, carrots -- anything that will keep through the winter of 2000.

MONROE -- Geraldine A. 'Jerry' Smith, 74, of Monroe died Monday, May 4, 2009, at the Monroe Clinic Hospital.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- Sixty-eight public libraries in central and northern Wisconsin will receive more than $382,000 from the Mead Witter Foundation as the result of a recent grant program.

HOPKINS, Minn. -- Robert W. Bogaard, 87, of Hopkins, Minn., formerly Abbotsford, died April 29, 2009.

MADISON - In order to meet a Department of Natural Resources January 2010 deadline, the city of Loyal needs to replace its largest well, hand-dug in 1907, with three wells that will cost about $1.2 million.

MADISON - A legislative committee today released a package of bills designed to control runaway costs and overcrowding in Wisconsin's prisons, but its prospects look bleak as the state struggles with a worsening fiscal crisis.