Edgar News

EDGAR - Badger Basket is a company well acquainted with hardship - so much so that the national recession has hardly registered.

Edgar native Shay Lehman was named to the 2009 College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN: The Magazine Academic All-District Five College Division Football Team second team.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS - The Edgar girls cross country team repeated as Division 3 champions today at the WIAA state cross country meet at The Ridges Golf Course.

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

Scholarship recipients MADISON -- Benjamin Hansen of Milladore is a recipient of a Wisconsin Towns Association scholarship sponsored by Rural Mutual Insurance Company.

In December, the Edgar School Board will decide whether to put to voters a $7 million referendum to cover remodeling and expansion costs for Edgar High School.

Edgar school officials next year plan to ask residents to vote on a $7 million building measure that could increase taxes on a $100,000 home by as much as $180 a year School leaders say they need the money to ease overcrowding by moving the cafeteria and a gym and making two additions to the building, one for seven classrooms and another for a gym ...

We have received the following death notices: Rueben Louis Ahlquist, 83, Edgar, died Wednesday, Oct.

A special event at Marathon County libraries lasted about five minutes Thursday, but its impact will linger much longer for those who tried to set a reading record.

A 1-year-old Edgar boy has become the first child in the world to be saved from a fatal immunodeficiency disease, just months after Wisconsin became the only state to test for it at birth.

HENDRICKSON, Peter, and ZDROIK, Rebecca, both of Wausau, Sept. 19, 2009. REIF, Charles, and BORCHARDT, Amber, both town of Cassel, Sept.

One area couple is rethinking they way they farm and are being recognized for their efforts.

MENOMONIE - University of Wisconsin-Stout defensive back Shay Lehman, a senior from Edgar, is a semifinalist for The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame scholar-athlete award.

Milt Weiler remembers the smell of leather and oil at his neighborhood hardware store growing up.

Water has become a precious commodity in some Marshfield area communities, according to government officials during a presentation Tuesday in Colby about the feasibility of alleviating the shortage by piping water to the area.

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Kara Faciszewski, a 2009 graduate of Marshfield High School, has received a $2,000 scholarship from the Financial Service Centers of America.

United Way's 211 has published a new Give and Get Help Guide, a 32-page mini-directory of community services and volunteer opportunities.

Nearly 40 percent of Wisconsin's elementary school students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, according to a report this week by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism that looked at data from the 2008 school year.

30, according to a police report. * More than $7,000 of computer equipment and electronics were stolen from the 9000 block of Bittersweet Road in the town of Rib Mountain on Aug.

The Tomahawk and Edgar girls cross country teams captured the Division 2 and 3 titles, respectively at the Smiley Invitational on Saturday at the Wausau American Legion Golf Course.