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Wausau to buy mold-filled Myron Street house for $1, raze the structure for future affordable home
Wausau plans to pay $1 for a vacant, mold-filled house on Myron Street, raze the structure and offer the lot for a new home for an income-qualified buyer. The Economic Development Committee on Wednesday approved buying 108 Myron St. from Marathon County, which took the property this year for unpaid taxes.
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70-apartment senior living facility under construction in downtown Wausau
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -The Grant Place, a private 70-apartment senior living facility, is being built at the corner of Grant and First streets in downtown Wausau. The facility is meant to keep people 55 and older in an active and social setting as they downsize to an apartment complex. Fifty...
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Wausau’s new credit card policy bans gift cards and alcohol but sets no spending caps
Wausau’s first comprehensive credit card policy would ban gift cards, alcohol and split charges, but the draft sets no spending caps on the city’s 65 cards. The Finance Committee takes up the policy Tuesday, three weeks after a Wausau Pilot & Review investigation found the cards carried $408,500 in combined monthly limits with no per-purchase caps or merchant restrictions. The Pilot reviewed three months of statements. That review also found:
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Antigo East Elementary School razed
ANTIGO — The aging East Elementary School was razed last week as the Antigo School District is coming closer to opening the new John H. Bradley Elementary School. In December 2025, the Antigo School Board voted to raze the vacant elementary school, which had a cost of about $150,000. The board and administrator decided on the option to raze the building to prepare the lots to eventually sell. During that meeting, Superintendent Glenda Oginski said three or four people did a walk through of the building, but “once they saw the condition of the building and the amount of money it was going to take to renovate it, even just to simply be a viable storage facility, no one was interested.” In order for the school to be properly razed, there were two separate jobs involved including asbestos abatement and the demolition itself. The district’s buildings were built in the 1960s and required infrastructural updates and upgrades to education. Oginski said during the December 2025 meeting, “The board wants to do what’s always fiscally responsible, but also it was very important to our board to make sure that we didn’t leave an eyesore of a vacant building. We didn’t want
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Wausau affordable housing fund on pace to spend $1.79 million in a year budgeted for zero
Wausau’s affordable housing fund is on track to spend $1.79 million this year, though the city’s adopted 2026 budget authorized no spending from the fund. The Wausau City Council takes up one piece of that spending Tuesday: a $650,000 budget amendment for a tax increment grant to Westside Commons. Gorman & Company built the 56-unit affordable apartment complex at 415 S. First Ave. As a change to the adopted budget, the amendment needs a two-thirds vote of the full council, or eight of 11 alders.
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Nov. 13 cutoff decides who can share in 3M’s $7.35B PFAS injury settlement
Central Wisconsin residents hoping to share in 3M’s $7.35 billion PFAS injury settlement need a lawyer or a pending federal case by Nov. 13, court records show. The settlement, signed Nov. 3, covers people who blame exposure to PFAS for kidney, testicular, liver or thyroid cancer, ulcerative colitis or thyroid disease, with payments spread over nine years. Anyone left out who still hopes to sue 3M now faces steep new court requirements, including expert reports tracing the source of the chemicals in their drinking water.
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Wausau fleet charges run $1.73 million over budget in 2026
Wausau departments ran $1.73 million over budget on fleet charges this year, and the city plans to cover the gap with vacancy savings, extra federal grant money and investment income. A year-end budget amendment before the Finance Committee Tuesday attributes the overrun to “higher-than-budgeted motor pool charges resulting from underfunded...
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Finance briefs: Ambulance monitors, water utility payment and cemetery deal return Tuesday
Wausau’s Finance Committee meets at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in a joint session with the Human Resources Committee. The raise, credit card policy, lead pipe award and year-end budget amendment are covered separately. The agenda also includes these items. Hoenecke cast lone vote against budget. Minutes from the Oct. 20...
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Grand Theater in Wausau reopens after renovations
The new-look Grand Theater opens Saturday. Six months of construction are in the books, and the venue is ready to welcome Wayne Newton to the stage. Second Century Campaign Marketing Manager Sadie Fisher says patrons will notice a mix of new and old looks. “It will feel like the Grand you know and love, but it also looks so much brighter and fresher. The theater itself has so many colors.”
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Wausau alders were told in 2024 a lead pipe ordinance would earn state points. Without one, the city lost forgiveness, public works director says.
Wausau’s public works director blames the council for lost lead pipe forgiveness, and the record shows alders were told in 2024 an ordinance would earn state funding points. “Had the City Council passed the resolution timely the city would have scored within the principal forgiveness funding range,” Public Works and Utilities Director Eric Lindman wrote in a Nov. 4 memo to the Wausau Water Works Commission.