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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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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’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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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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Pool tournament at Tomahawk VFW raises more than $20,000 for Never Forgotten Honor Flight
TOMAHAWK, Wis. (WJFW) — Each year the Never Forgotten Honor Flight takes veterans to Washington DC for closure, gratitude and respect. The VFW in Tomahawk has been raising money for the organization the past few years through an annual pool tournament. Saturday morning, veterans, community members and pool players...
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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.
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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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Marshfield Clinic awarded $580K mental health grant
MARSHFIELD – The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has awarded Marshfield Clinic a three-year Mental Health Awareness Training Grant, bringing nearly $580,000 in federal funding to support mental health awareness, education, and access to care across a 7-county region across northern, western, and central Wisconsin. SAMHSA,...
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Wausau Mayor Encouraging Residents to Take Survey on Potential Shift to City Administrator Form of Government
(Mike Leischner, WSAU) Wausau Mayor Doug Diny is encouraging residents to take a 15-minute survey on a potential shift to a city administrator form of government. According to Mike Leischner witih WSAU, the survey is open to anyone who lives or works in Wausau. It focuses on how familiar residents are with the city’s current government, what matters to them in how the city is run, and whether they support the change. Residents will also be asked how much they know about an administrator form of government and what they would be interested in learning.
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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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Wausau committee deadlocks on deadlines to clear logs, training from 1300 Cleveland Ave.
Neighbors of Wausau’s 1300 Cleveland Ave. property still have no timeline for the city to clear logs and end training at the site after a committee deadlocked Wednesday. Council President Terry Kilian proposed ending city training on the site by Feb. 1 and giving the parks department six months to move its log storage. The Economic Development Committee split 2-2 on that proposal. The committee later deadlocked 2-2 on a deed restriction barring future industrial use of the property. Staff said the restriction will go to the Wausau City Council on Nov. 24 regardless.