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Galloway, WI · Municipal
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Wisconsin businesses promise free brats, beer if Brewers win World Series
(WFRV) – Local eateries and taverns across the Milwaukee area are doubling down on fan enthusiasm as the Milwaukee Brewers push through the World Series, promising major giveaways if the Brew Crew captures the championship title. Among the businesses making bold pledges, the Milwaukee Brat House announced on Facebook that it will serve free brats […]
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Pine Grove Cemetery group asks Wausau crews to cut nine trees, grind 23 stumps; committee wants costs first
Wausau taxpayers already pay the group running Pine Grove Cemetery about $77,000 a year, and the group now wants city crews to cut nine trees and grind 23 stumps. “I just don’t think we’re in a position to provide that kind of a pro bono service,” Alder Tom Neal said Tuesday, as the Finance Committee weighed a new agreement with the Wausau Cemetery Association, which operates the cemetery on Grand Avenue.
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Finance briefs: Westside Commons earns $650,000 grant, TIF plan for street and lead line work advances
Westside Commons, a 56-unit apartment complex on the former Westside Battery site, has met every requirement for a $650,000 city tax increment grant, Wausau staff said Tuesday. “They have met all aspects of the development agreement at this point in time,” an economic development staff member told the Finance Committee....
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Your letters: ‘Freedom and democracy’ at stake in election
What is happening between the United States and Ukraine is not just foreign policy. It signals a major shift in our own country, and not a good one. This month, our government made a deal to buy Russian diesel, waived sanctions Congress passed with bipartisan support, and left Ukraine waiting weeks for air-defense missiles its allies had already paid for. The president’s envoy called Putin a “humanitarian” as Russian missiles kept killing Ukrainian civilians.
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Wausau gets clean 2025 audit, but auditors caution that too much rests on too few employees
Wausau’s finances got a clean bill of health from new outside auditors, who also cautioned that too much of the city’s financial know-how rests with too few people. “I’m happy to say that we are issuing a clean, unmodified opinion,” Lucas Hand, a director with the accounting firm Mauldin & Jenkins, told the Finance Committee on Tuesday. “This is the highest level of assurance that we can provide as your external auditors.”