Marshfield News

If your galoshes got more use than normal last month, it's no surprise -- Marshfield had its wettest October on record.

Kevin Schmidtke, 37, of the town of McMillan has filed papers to run for Wisconsin Governor.

When Dr. Qasim Raza of Marshfield heard the shooting suspect in Thursday's massacre at Fort Hood is a devout Muslim, he was appalled.

Marshfield electric rates went up more than 10 percent Monday for residential customers upon approval last week of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission.

A 24-year-old Colby man was arrested late last night after allegedly stabbing a Medford man with a knife during an argument, according to Colby-Abbotsford Police Chief Ron Gosse.

Police have filed charges against a 32-year-old Marshfield man in connection to a string of sexually explicit phone calls made in late October, Chief Joe Stroik said.

Paul D. Gunderson, director of medical research for the Marshfield Medical Research and Education Foundation, became the 12th medical researcher to receive the Gwen D. Sebold Research Fellowship award, Wednesday.

'Mauritius,' a Campus Community Players production, will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

A Marshfield man is being charged with his sixth OWI following an accident early Tuesday morning.

The speaker was Francis Steiner who gave a combination humorous and inspirational talk to the group.

A Marshfield man was charged Monday with his sixth drunken driving offense hours after his Jeep Cherokee overturned in rural Marathon County.

MARSHFIELD -- On Oct. 17, more than 100 friends of the Hannah Center Inc., a Marshfield maternity home, came together for their annual fundraiser.

A semi-truck delivered 22,983 boxes of cookies to the Youth Building at the Marshfield Fairgrounds.

Witches and brides, vampires and Frankenstein's monsters prowled the streets of Marshfield's downtown Friday afternoon, stopping at shops displaying a pumpkin sign to make the traditional Halloween pitch.

Editor's note: The Marshfield area is abundant in locally grown and made foods. From the apple trees laden with fruit to the world-class cheeses produced at community dairies, there's a wealth of possibilities.

Creating energy from methane produced in cow manure could lead the way to farmers generating their own electricity, said Tom Drendel, the former superintendent of the Marshfield University of Wisconsin Agricultural Research Station.

MARSHFIELD -- Miss Wisconsin Kristina Smaby recently stopped at Saint Joseph's Children's Hospital in Marshfield as part of her tour throughout the state to talk with people about her pageant platform of 'Connecting Generations.' After graduating college, Smaby has hopes of opening a national chain of intergenerational family support centers that ...

Ethan Sampson, 3, zipped to the elevator in Marshfield's City Hall, excited to push the buttons and unaware that the in-demand vaccination he just received was the real surprise of the day.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS -- The Wood County and Vicinity Central Labor Council voted unanimously to endorse the 2009 fundraising campaigns of Marshfield Area United Way and United Way of Inner Wisconsin.

The Columbus High School Class of 1959 celebrated its golden class reunion beginning Sept.