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ATHENS EDGAR MARATHON STRATFORD

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DECEMBER 9, 2015

VOLUME 53, NO. 49

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Gym remodeling is plannedThe consensus among a

packed crowd that attendedthe Stratford School Districtbuilding referendum listening

session Dec. 3 was theywould rather see a newauditorium and com-petition gymnasiumbuilt onto the currenthigh school, ratherthan remodel the exist-ing gym into either ofthose.

Miron Construc-tion’s design and buildteam with SomervilleArchitects outlinedfour different middleand high school addi-tion and renovation options,along with two elementaryschool remodeling options,during the listening session.

All four middle and highschool options are similar incost, and the same goes foreach of the elementary school

options.The crowd wanted to

discard the first middleand high school op-tion, because it wouldconvert the existinghigh school competi-tion gym and stageinto a 550-seat audito-rium. A three-stationgym would be addedonto the current highschool, to be used forsports games and prac-tices. This option also

includes a seven-classroom ad-dition in the northwest highschool parking lot for a totalproject cost of $18 million-$23

See OPTIONS / page 5

The Marathon Police Department re-ports that a Curtiss man, already chargedwith an Oct. 18 burglary at Granite ValleyForest Products, participated in anothertheft outside of Parts City Auto Parts,Marathon.

The department alleges that EricSchmidt, 35, currently in the MarathonCounty Jail, stole 92 items from a carparked outside of the Marathon businesswaiting for repair.

Police were made aware of the theftby Parts City Auto Parts owner Michael

Dodson. He led police to the basementof a Main Street residence where stolenproperty, which included socket sets andother tools, were found.

The Marathon Police Department hasreferred a 34-year-old Marathon womanwho lives in the building where the stolengoods were found to the Marathon Coun-ty District Attorney’s ffice on charges ofreceiving stolen property. The woman, atthis time, has not been charged.

The department now accuses Schmidtof taking and attempting to fence at a

Stratford business a DeWalt circular sawowned by Granite Valley Forest Products.

Marathon Police Department officerAndy Crabb said the recent alleged theftsshould be a caution to local residents.

“People in Marathon need to under-stand that the word is out that this areahas become fair game for criminals tocome and steal items,” he said. “Peopleneed to be aware of this fact in this chang-ing world.”

Crabb urged local residents to locktheir doors.

Stratford

likes newgym andauditorium

LeeSpindler

Few showat county

addressmeeting

There may not be much in-terest among Marathon Coun-ty’s cities and villages to bepart of a possible project togive all residents new, uniqueaddresses.

County board chairmanKurt Gibbs and deputy countyadministrator Deb Hager invit-

ed all city andvillage leadersto a meetingon Thursdayin Wausau,

but only threeshowed up. Oneincluded BudSuckow, presi-dent of the Vil-lage of Strat-ford.

The pro-posed addresssystem, com-mon in all but

a handful of Wisconsin coun-ties, would be able to identifya property’s location withina grid system accurate to 3.3feet. Each address would in-clude five or six digits.

Suckow told the gatheringthat he would report back to

the Stratford Village Boardabout the meeting, but did notindicate whether he liked ordisliked the proposal.

“I can see why you are look-ing at it,” he said. “I can’t say,however, whether we would gofor it.”

Gibbs and Hager repeatedreasons for the new address-ing system.

They said the county dis-patch system needed it toquickly and more accuratelydispatch police, fire and am-bulance personnel to emergen-

See ADDRESS/ page 4

KurtGibbs

Edgar Christmas paradeCindy Lou-Who from “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” ensem-

ble walks in Sunday’s 20th annual Edgar Christmas parade downThird Ave. to Stark’s Floral. See more parade coverage on page 20.

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What would be a good Christmas gift for Wisconsin this year?How about a brand new politics?Such a gift, wrapped in a bow, would be most welcome. Current-

ly, Wisconsin people are fed up with state politics. Neither partygets good marks. Ours is a winter of discontent. Last month’sMarquette University Law School poll pretty much told the tale.Only 31 percent of those polled approve of the jobs Republicansdo in the state Legislature. Just 39 percent approve of the wayDemocrats do their jobs. Gov. Scott Walker’s approval rating lan-guishes at a miserable 38 percent.

But what would a brand new politics even look like? And howcould our elected leadership ever deliver such a thing?

It wouldn’t be that tough. Not really.A first step is getting out of the political rut we are in. The

rut can be defined by both parties chasing after ever-higher me-dian household income. For Republicans and Democrats, this isa game of cats and dogs. The Republicans, as true conservatives,cut taxes and roll back regulations to spur job creation and, inturn, push wages and incomes higher through greater demandfor labor. The Democrats, as principled liberals, favor educationand training, believing that more productive workers will beable to command a higher wage, thus boosting median incometo greater heights.

The problem is that neither strategy works that well. Econo-mies rise and fall based on national, if not international, trends.State politics don’t seem to matter much. Thus a Republican,free enterprise state like Texas has seen its inflation-adjustedmedian income drop 2 percent since 1999. A liberal, highly regu-lated state like California, on the other hand, has seen its me-dian income slide by 6.9 percent since 2006.

Wisconsin is emblematic of this dilemma. Center-left Gov.James Doyle ran Wisconsin from 2003-11. Ultra-right Gov. ScottWalker has led an all-Republican controlled state governmentfrom then until now. Wisconsin median income, however, hasshriveled during both administrations. Newly reported U.S.Census figures show that Wisconsin median income has shrunkby 10.5 percent since 1999. Here, in Marathon County, medianhousehold income decreased 8.3 percent to $53,779.

So pitiful are our politics that Gov. Walker, in reaction to thispast week’s news articles concerning this drop in median house-hold income, tweeted that the U.S. Census was wrong and, in-stead, Wisconsin incomes have grown 7.4 percent since he waselected. A Politi-Fact investigation in the Milwaukee Journal

Sentinel revealed that Walker pathetically failed to factor infla-tion in his claim. It was rated “mostly false.” So sad. The gover-

nor has to make things up to tell himself that his politics “areworking.”

We could have a new politics, however, if instead of a focuson income, state leadership directed its attention to purchasingpower. Here, Wisconsin has a natural advantage. While incomesmight suffer, we enjoy cheaper prices too. The result is that Wis-consin ranks eighth in the nation for purchasing power ($57,000).That’s not bad. With housing prices 20 percent cheaper than thenational average, Appleton, for instance, is rated the fifth mostaffordable city in America. There, you can buy a dozen eggs for$1.99. A haircut costs $14.60. You can take a bus and save moneyon gas, if you like.

Our state politicians fight ideological battles over things thatmake little difference. But what about making life more afford-able? What Wisconsin politician, either a Democrat or Republi-

can, has a plan to lower the outrageously expensive health in-surance costs in this state? And what elected state official, eithera Democrat or Republican, has legislation to stop a $5 billionstate phosphorus mandate that promises to double or triple ev-erybody’s sewer bills? And what about cheaper broadband? Or athousand other things?

Increasing Wisconsin wages will likely be tough in today’s in-ternational economy. Making current wages go farther could bea new, more productive political goal.

Put that on your Christmas list.

December 9, 2015 THE RECORD-REVIEW

Jingle bell politics

Opinion/Editorial

A HANDS CARTOON

Do some research toavoid charity scams

The holiday season is the busiesttime of year for charitable giving.According to the Center on Philan-thropy, the average person makes 24percent of their annual donations be-tween Thanksgiving and New Year’s.It’s a time when those in need are inour thoughts, and when wemay also be interested indonating to charity beforethe end of the tax year. It’snot surprising, then, that so-licitations for various good

causes fill our mailboxes,phone lines and email in-boxes in December.

Unfortunately, it’s alsoa time when it’s easy to betaken advantage of by or-ganizations that may notbe what they seem. In a fewinstances, the appeal mightbe an outright scam; in oth-ers, the cause is legitimatebut the fundraiser may bekeeping a large share of theproceeds.

We all want our gifts tocharities to do the mostgood, and not be eaten up infundraising fees or exces-sive administrative costs.

Just as we try to get themost for our dollar in other purchas-es, it’s a good idea to do a little home-work to make sure you’re getting thebest value in your charitable givingas well.

Here are some suggestions to makesure that you’re getting the most char-itable “bang for the buck” this holidayseason.

Have a giving plan. Rather thanwaiting to respond to an appeal, beproactive in your giving. Decidewhat kinds of charities you want tosupport and how much you want togive; then research your options andmake your gift. Having a giving planwill help you make wise choices, andit will be easier to resist potentiallyquestionable appeals when you knowyou’re already doing your part.

Don’t give in to pressure. Phone so-licitors may play on your sympathiesto get you to make a quick decision.A reputable organization will respect

your decision-making and give youtime to make a reasoned choice onyour own schedule.

Learn as much as you can. Especial-ly if it’s an organization you’ve neverheard of before, take the time to learnabout the charity that’s soliciting

you. Request a copy of thegroup’s annual report orother printed information.Check to see if the charityhas a website with informa-tion about its finances and

the results it achieves. Web-sites such as CharityChoices.com and CharityNavigator.org can help you learnwhether a charity is legiti-mate and efficiently run,and whether your gift willqualify for a tax deduction.

Skip the middle man.Telephone solicitationsare often done by for-profitcall centers that solicit formany charities. In someinstances, such operationskeep as much as 90 percentof what they raise; but evenif the overhead is not thathigh, any part of your con-tribution that goes to pay a

fundraiser doesn’t go to thework of the charity. If you’re truly in-terested in supporting a charity, hangup the phone and make out a checkdirectly to the group.

Beware of sound-alikes. Would youknow the difference between DisabledAmerican Veterans, a well-respectednational organization, and DisabledVeterans of America, whose founderwas sent to prison for running thefake charity? Scam artists will oftengive their groups names that soundsimilar to well-known charities. An-other reason to be cautious and docareful research before you give.

Charitable giving, no matter theamount, is a great way to celebratethe holidays. It feels wonderful to helppeople in need and organizations thatare doing important work. With a lit-tle caution and a little research, youcan give with confidence and be sureyour gift is doing the good work youintend it to do.

BE OUR

GUEST

BY

STATE SEN.JULIE LASSA

(D-STEVENS

POINT)



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Everywhere I goI find a pal

Peter Weinschenk, Editor, The Record-Review

For regular readers of my column, I’msure it’s become quite clear of my fas-cination of history. I have the idea (pos-sibly cynically so) that where one thingstands today, something better/moreoriginal/prettier/higher quality/moreinteresting existed there yesterday.

A little-known tidbit about me is thatI am the Marketing Director for the Na-

tional AmusementPark Historical As-sociation (NAPHA).We are a Chicago-based group whichwas founded by abunch of windy citynatives who wouldmeet in the 1970sto share memoriesand lament the de-molition of the ven-erable RiverviewAmusement Park indowntown Chicago.

Riverview wassituated on thenorth branch ofthe Chicago Riverand was home to asmany as 20 rollercoasters and hun-

dreds of other unique rides and attrac-tions in its tenure from 1904 to 1967. Un-fortunately racial tensions, a changingneighborhood, rising taxes and crime

sent Riverview the way of the wreckingball unexpectedly in the fall of 1967.As I research local history here, I com-

monly pour over old papers, take notesand try to get a snapshot of what was go-ing on at the time. This week, I’ve beenlooking over 1986. For those who werearound, 1986 might stand out as the yearthe DOT rammed 4 lanes of wide con-crete ribbons right through the heartof Colby, Unity and Abbotsford, replac-ing trees, businesses, structures historicand otherwise, hills and on-street park-ing spots.

Many bars were lost. Without men-tioning anybody by name, there werespecial affections held for The Dugoutbar on the west side on 13 on Colby’ssouth end of town. Upon entering the

establishment, a set of stairs led patronsdown into the bar, which was sunken be-low grade.

The intersection of Blackberry Roadand 13 between Colby and Unity washome to Fuzzy’s bar. Unfortunately, thehistoric structure was constructed inan era ignorant of broad radius inter-sections, turn lanes, generous setbacksand 48 foot semi trailers. So, the newhighway in 1987 meant, as the Tribune- Phonograph reported the prior year, thebar would not escape the ‘unrelentingscythe’ of the new highway.

The Park/The Sword, a bar and dancehall anchoring a century old forest andrecreation area, was just too unique forthe modern age and died to developmentonly a handful of years ago.

The famed Central State Speedwayand the 13-29 Abby Drive-In were erasedby the construction of the 29 bypass, aswas the airport portion of the AirportBar.

Perhaps people are happy to cleansethe landscape of those tired old struc-tures, quirky planning and blightedareas. Me, I wish they were still there.Uniqueness in building, unfortunately,tends to not be replaced once it is gone.

It’s good toremember

past buildings

I am happy with my new shirt.It is a simple, white cotton long sleeve

shirt with a button down collar and normalcuffs.

Most importantly, the shirt fits my body.And, therein, lies the miracle.This is the shirt I ordered from a website,

Tailor Store, back in October that is head-

quartered in Helsinborg, Sweden.Most shirt retailers will sell you a shirt

in any of three sizes—small, medium orlarge—and if your body doesn’t correspondto these sizes, it’s your problem. It meansfinding a tailor or seamstress to resize theshirt.

With this shirt, however, I gave the Tai-lor Store my body measurements. They, inturn, created an individual shirt for my in-dividual body.

I can say that this process was not so easy.Not long after I ordered my shirt, the

company e-mailed me back. Nobody hasthose measurements, my sales represen-tative said, and she asked that I remea-sure my body. So, I did. This time, my wifehelped with the tape measure. Some of thenumbers I entered originally changed a bit.

We tried to be as accurate as possible.Weeks later, I received my ordered shirt.

I tried it on and it was ridiculously small.I could barely button the shirt. My armscouldn’t reach out. This whole concept, Ithought, was a disaster.

But I did not give up.Tailor Store lets you reorder a misfitting

piece of clothing at no charge. They ask,however, that you send them photographsof yourself in the shirt so they can adjustthe measurements. So, I did that. I stood in

my living room. My wife snapped picturesof me with her phone. I e-mailed those pho-tos to Tailor Store.

The new shirt arrived yesterday in a UPSbag. I tried it on and it fit wonderfully. Suc-cess!

I consider this nothing short of amazing.Part of this amazement is because the

shirt, while ordered from a company inSweden, was actually made in Sri Lanka. Itcame from 135-10 Weniwellalakauwa Rd. inthe City of Alawwa. That’s the return ad-dress on the UPS bag.

I looked up Alawwa on the Internet.It’s a medium-sized, hilly and lushly for-ested city with a pea-green river runningthrough it. Sri Lanka is the island nationoff the southern tip of India. Trains run ev-erywhere. There are lots of people walkingaround. Everyone is wearing Western-stylesports clothing.

So, here is how my shirt was made. I mea-sured my body here in central Wisconsin.That information went to Sweden. FromSweden, the information was sent to SriLanka. Workers there made my shirt, theyput it in a bag and sent it halfway around

the world to me. The shirt arrived on mydoorstep.

The shirt, to me, is meaningful. This isa crazy, big world with all kinds of people.Maybe a person feels comfortable in theirown hometown, in their own country. Butdo you ever feel like you fit in this world?I can tell you that when you put on a shirtmade in Sri Lanka made to one’s individualmeasurements, it helps.

The world is no longer too small or toobig. It is just right.

HOLD THAT

THOUGHT

BY

CHRISTIAN

PARKERREPORTER

TRIBUNE-PHONOGRAPH




The Marathon Village Board onThursday approved a 2016 budget andtax levy. The vote was unanimous.

The budget, as previously reported,calls for a 7 percent or $46,533 munici-pal tax increase over the current year.

The budget includes a labor contractoffer, approved by the board, but not yetfinalized. It offers all village employ-ees, except for village administratorAndy Kurtz, a 1 percent raise in 2016.The budget will give Kurtz a 2 percentpay increase.

The Marathon Police Department isnot represented by a labor union. Allother nonmanagement village employ-ees belong to the Teamster’s Union.

In other business:

Village administrator Andy Kurtzannounced that new Harter’s contain-

ers for garbage and recycling collectionwill be delivered to the village on Mon-day, Dec. 28, for a first pickup scheduledfor Tuesday, Jan. 5. Advanced Disposalwill pick-up the existing trashcans atyear’s end.

“There may be a time when you havethree containers,” Kurtz told villagetrustees.

Kurtz alerted board members toa possible minimum $300,000 state De-

partment of Transportation grant toconnect the Marathon Business Parkand downtown Marathon with a walk-ing trail. The administrator said sur-veys have indicated local interest toimproving the village’s “walkability.”

Board members approved a newlist of village fees, including a new$25 fee for a home business. Villagepresident Small said the operator of alicensed day care told him she appre-ciated all day care businesses be regu-lated in some way.

Kurtz told board members the rea-son for the small business fee is for thevillage to “know where the businessesare” and to add them to the list of busi-nesses on the village website.

Board members voted to withdrawfrom the Local Government Property

Insurance Fund and the League of Wis-consin Municipalities Mutual Insur-ance and direct administrator Kurtzto contract with Boehm Insurance, Ed-gar, for property, liability and Workers’Compensation insurances.

Kurtz told board members that thevillage will save $11,000 on insurancewithout incurring added risk to thevillage.

Board members approved award-

ing Lee Olbrantz two grants worth$8,000 toward a $68,000 project remodelof the exterior of the Arrow Tap, 318Main Street, with decorative masonry,new siding and awnings.

Kurtz said Count Materials, Mara-thon, was making available masonryproducts at a good price to help thedowntown remodeling effort succeed.

Board members also approved a $706grant to assist Glenn Mroczenski ininstalling $5,000 in awnings at his gin-seng business at 312 Walnut Street.

Board members approved a list of2016 election workers. AdministratorKurtz said he may use Marathon HighSchool civics students in next year’spresidential election. It is difficult torecruit election workers, he said.

Board members agreed to move

their regularly scheduled monthlymeeting from the first Thursday to thefirst Wednesday of every month.

The trustees voted to approve athree-year building inspector contractwith Kevin Breit, Mosinee.

The board approved the applica-tion of Josh Riehle to be a MarathonFire Department firefighter.

The Marathon County Sheriff’s De-partment arrested a 53-year-old Athensman for disorderly conduct at Teaser’s,town of Cleveland, on Nov. 28.

A police report states that bartenderJaime Cheyka-Maguire dumped out

the man’s drink and, taking his arm,ordered him to leave the establishmentafter he was allegedly rude to other cus-tomers and dancers at the club. Afterleaving the club, the man laid down inthe doorway to Teaser’s so that custom-ers had to step over him.

He was transported to the MarathonCounty Jail without incident. TheDistrict attorney’s office has not filedcharges in the case.

The Stratford Village Board last weekWednesday passed the 2016 budget. Tofund the budget, trustees increased lo-cal property taxes by $33,313 or 8.15percent.

The trustees approved a municipaltax levy of $442,059 for 2016. The cur-rent year levy is $408,746.

Total taxes in the village will dropthis coming year, despite the village’shigher levy.

Village clerk June Krueger said thevillage’s total 2016 tax mil rate willdrop 25 cents from the current year,from $20.39 to $20.14 per thousand dol-ars of assessed property.

The village’s total assessed value in-creased by $596,900, or .6 of 1 percent,from $92,873,300 in 2014 to $93,470,200in 2015. The owner of a house valued at$100,000 this year will predictably see adecrease of $25 in property taxes paidin 2016.

Krueger said the principal reason forthis year’s municipal levy increase wasdue to the village closing out Tax Incre-mental Finance District No. 1 in 2015.

Krueger said the equalized values ofthe properties that were in TID No. 1,which are collectively over $12 million,are now in the village’s general taxingdistrict. This accounts for $28,126 of thevillage’s levy increase on the Wiscon-sin Department of Revenue’s levy limitworksheet. She said the rest of the tax

levy increase of $5,187 is the village’snormal allowed levy increase based onnet new construction of 1.269 percent.

AddressContinued from page 1

Marathon levy approved

Stratford localtaxes increase

by 8 percent

Athens manarrested atCleveland bar

Toys for Tots donationsStratford High School 2011 graduate Austin Shelley, now a member of the United States Marine Corps, collected donated toysfor the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots program during Stratford’s Christmas in the Park Saturday at Klemme Reserve.

cies.“What does the public expect when

they call dispatch when an emergencyarises?” said Gibbs. “They expect thatwe will respond as quickly as possibleand that we don’t screw it up.”

Currently, 70 percent of calls com-ing to the county’s central dispatchcenter in Wausau are cell calls. Unlikecalls made on landline telephones, it istough to locate where the calls are com-ing from.

Hager said dispatch officers can use“ping” technology to find where a cellcall comes from, but, unlike what is de-

picted on television shows, it is not aninstant process.

“That’s Hollywood,” she said. “It’snot reality.”

She said, for instance, a “ping”search for her son’s cell phone wouldstart with cell towers in La Crosse, be-cause that is where he first got his cellphone number back in college. He nowlives in Chicago.

Hager said the current 10-grid ad-dressing system can confuse dispatch-ers. There are a number of duplicateaddresses, she said.

Gibbs said there are a number of ad-

dresses that sound alike. There are amultitude of Town Line Roads. in thecounty, he said. There are both streetsand roads with the same name, Gibbsadded.

Hager said a second reason for updat-ing the county’s addressing system isto improve business delivery of goods.

The county officials said it wouldlikely take two years to implement anew county addressing system, butone impetus for the system is two ma-

jor purchases in 2016. One is for a newland records system, another is for asheriff’s department data system.

In a short discussion after the pre-sentation, the attending municipal offi-cials questioned what their cost wouldbe.

Gibbs said that, as of now, the countyanticipates municipalities will coverthe cost of switching street signs andother costs to implement the new ad-dressing system. He said, however, thatview might change.

“The [county] Executive Committeewill look at what it can do with thesecosts,” he said.



OptionsContinued from page 1


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enovation• HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Replacement• Locker Rooms• Science/FACE/Ag/Special Ed Classrooms• 3 General Classrooms• Partial Roof Replacement

New Construction• Auditorium(550 seats, full-fly)

• 3 Station Gym• Locker Rooms• Restrooms• Commons & Prep. Kitchen

High School Option 3B$20 Million - $25 Million

New 3 Stage Gym

New Prep. Kitchen

Second FloorSpecial Education

New Lobby

New Auditorium

There will be upgradefinishes throughoutthe building.

Elementary Option 3B

$6 Million - $8 Million

Kitchen intoServing Kitchen

Stage into Music Room

Multi-PurposeSpace

There will be upgradefinishes throughout thebuilding and windowreplacements.

Renovation• HVAC, Plumbing

and ElectricalReplacement

• Classrooms• Restrooms• Music Room• Kitchen

• Multi-Purpose Space

CURRENTLY FAVORED STRATFORD SCHOOL BUILDING OPTIONS

million.Several members of the crowd also

weren’t too keen with the second op-tion, which consists of keeping thecurrent high school gym as the maincompetition gym for games. A new 550-seat auditorium with a full-fly and two-station gym would be built for sportsteams to use for practices, and an ad-dition of two science and three gen-eral classrooms would be built in thenorthwest corner high school parkinglot, for a total project cost of $19 mil-lion-$23 million.

Stratford School Board member Ja-mie Wenzel was staunchly against op-tion No. 2.

“Why would we keep the existinggym the way it is as the main sportscompetition gym?” he wondered. “If

we are building a

new two-stationgym, why don’t wemake that new gymthe main competi-tion gym? I am allabout aesthetics,so why don’t we

just build a newcompetition gymnext to the new au-ditorium? I thinkit would be foolishto want a new gymand auditorium andnot get them.”

The third option consists of build-ing an auditorium with a full-fly anda three-station gym onto the currenthigh school. There would be no class-

room addition built in the northwestcorner parking lot, and the presentcompetition gym would be remodeledinto new locker and science rooms.The total project cost would be $18.5million-$23 million.

An elementary school renovationoption No. 1 that would go along withthe middle and high school options onethrough three would include a buildingaddition in the northwest corner park-ing lot to consist of new multi-purpose,music and Title 1 classrooms. The totalcost would be $7 million-$9 million.

The majority of the crowd at the lis-tening session seemed to prefer middleand high school building and renova-tion option number 3B, along with theelementary school 3B renovation plan.

The only difference between optionsthree and 3B are that 3B includes thebuilding addition of a full kitchen inthe northwest high school parking lot,for a total project cost of $20 million-25million.

The elementary 3B option would beadded onto the middle and high school3B option, and would include convert-ing the current kitchen into just a serv-ing kitchen, along with multi-purposeclassrooms. There would be no class-room addition built in the northwestparking lot. The total project cost is $6million-8 million.

Stratford resident John Southworthexpressed his interest in middle andhigh school option 3B, with the ele-

mentary school 3B plan added onto it,over the rest of the plans.“I like option 3B in the sense that it

has a lot to offer over some of the otherchoices,” he said. “I think we wouldaddress all of our needs in this plan,and I think it’s also worthwhile to in-clude the elementary school 3B optionbecause it won’t be a big issue to havefood service workers hauling food overfrom the high school to the elementaryschool.”

Lee Spindler, Miron project manager

for the Stratford building and remodel-ing referendum, said it would be pos-sible to shift the new gyms to createroom for an indoor track. Wenzel likedhis idea, because it’s difficult for thehigh school track team to practice inthe elementary school during inclem-ent spring weather.

Betty Southworth questioned howmany new classrooms the schoolswould need based on their growth instudents, because middle and high

school option one created seven newclassrooms compared to four in theother options. Stratford schools super-intendent Scott Winch responded toher question.

“We need a minimum of three class-rooms and a fourth would be great,” hesaid. “I don’t know if it would be goodto have any more classrooms addedthan that. Our technology coordinatoris currently working out of a closet, soone of those new rooms could also befor him.”

A heated discussion ensued aboutwhether the school district should con-struct an auditorium with a full over-head fly, so that props could be flownonto the stage.

Stratford resident Keith Grell want-ed to “go all in” on the new auditorium.

“Mr. (John) Rickinger cannot get hiscurrent varsity band on our stage andhe still won’t be able to if we turn ourgym into an auditorium,” Grell said.“So I am going to fire the first bullet

and say that I want to see a full-fly anda brand new auditorium.”Melanie Parma, senior architectur-

al designer for Somerville, said a flycan’t be added later once a referendumbuilding project is completed. She alsosaid a full auditorium fly would cost anextra $1 million. Rod Huther, the schooldistrict’s business manager, estimated$1 million spent on a full-fly would costtaxpayers of a $100,000 house about anextra $10 per year.

School board member Chris Dickin-

son wondered whether a full fly mat-tered when bringing in performersfrom the outside. Rickinger respondedto his question, “The less you can offerfrom a technical aspect, whether it belighting or sound and a fly, those willfactor into what groups can come inand perform. The community needsto decide whether they want to have aperforming arts center or a speakingand performance auditorium.”

The next Stratford School District

listening session will be held from 6-8p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 16, in the highschool band room. Miron officials willhave fine-tuned plans and cost num-bers so residents can whittle down theoptions into one concrete plan theywant. The school board will vote ona building referendum idea and totalcost at their Jan. 11 regular monthlymeeting to meet the Jan. 23 deadline to-ward having an April referendum.



Honor RollAthens High School has

announced its first quarterhonor roll for the 2015-16

school term.Highest Honors12th: Miranda Grabowski,

Austin Mengel.11th grade: Marissa No-

wicki.10th grade: Megan Nowak,

Marcianna Olson.Ninth grade: Kenadi Died-

rich, McKale Redmann.High Honors

12th grade: Jared Belisle,Johnathon Daul, Darion El-lenbecker, Hanna Ellenbeck-er, Tannor Frahm, Cole Hand-schke, Kendra Hoffman, AlecLiterski, Justin Moss, LaneNicholds, Michaela Nowacki,Breanna Paul, Cassie Schaet-

zl, Deven Schreiner, Cody Si-monson, Max Stange, ChaseVitort, Brandon Welbes, Au-tumn Wickman and KarleeWoiak.

11th grade: Elizabeth Brew-ster, Ty Bunkelman, Kelsi E l-lenbecker, Emily Frick, Al-exa Gajewski, Ty Halopka,Berenice Lira, Paul Mroc-zenski, Jacob Ratajczyk,Treyton Roesler, Kaylyn Sch-reiner, Sierra Schug, JakeStange, Megan Switlick, EricTischauser, Jadon Zettler,and Jordan Zinkowich.

10th grade: Emily Al-brecht, Makenna Anderson,Jeremy Blenker, Cade Ellen-

becker, Jaiden Frahm, BaileyHarding, Kayla Hein, Gabri-

ella Janke, Joseph Lontcoski,Guyler Luther, Lance Nich-olds, Parker Schreiner, Rae-Jean Stowe, Brady Wagner,Tanner Wagner-Durr, Mar-shall Westfall, Kristen Wick-man, Cathy Xiong-Frahm.

Ninth grade: McKaylaBraun, Seth Coker, DerekCzech, Shania Dankmeyer,James Daul, Jordan Deck-er, Mason Halopka, CarleyLipinski, Madeline Literski,Zandria Lukes, Lauren Paul,Aldo Perez, Olivia VanDer-Linden, Paige Vitort, GabeWeiks, Kailey Weiler, Brit-

tany Zillmer.Honors

12th grade: Jared Diers,Devon Diethelm, Nina Gold-sworthy, Michael Gore, Bran-don Hitz, Erin Hoffman,Justin Kelly, Briana Lavic-ka, Kelsey Lontcoski, CalebNowak, Amalia Redmann,Katie Slivinski, Mark Wal-ters and Justin Wheatley.

11th grade: John Bant,Shay Boesl, Jameson Brooks,Paige Denzine, Nash Ellen-becker, Austin Engel, Kai-tlyn Gumz, Haley Kralick,Josh Langteau, Nate Morse,Marisa Radloff, Kira Schoen-rock, Alyssa Schueller, Ryan

Thurs, Mikala Verpoorten,Megan Vitort, Ben Weller,

Heather Westfall and TonyXiong-Frahm.

10th grade: Brett Albrecht,Kevin Albrecht, KaitlynBrooks, Klay Ellenbecker,Katherine Hart, Will John-son, Roger Knight, ZacharyMengel, Andrew Nowacki,Marissa Redmann, KatlynSchilling, Shayla Schreiner,Brandon Seefeld, Ty Sommer,Colten Weiler, Nathan Wheat-ley and Matthew Wiebe.

Ninth grade: SamanthaDaniels, Cody DenOtter, Javi-er Espinoza, Trevor Felkow-ski, Matthew Gore, Carter

Meddaugh, Courtney Morse,Aaron Passehl, Dallas Seu-

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Birthday ClubThe Birthday Club met Nov.

28 at the home of Mildred Bol-lech.

Sheepshead was played and

the first prize was awardedto Marie Sprenger, secondto Betty Auner and third toCatherine Kreft.

The next meeting will be atthe home of Helen Bergmannin December.

SCHOOL LUNCH

Athens Public SchoolMonday, Dec. 14: Chickensoup, crackers, Bosco stick

Tuesday, Dec. 15: Hot dog ona bun, baked beans, sauerkraut, Wednesday, Dec. 16: Turkey

with gravy, mashed potatoes,bread, carrots, cranberries,

applesauceThursday, Dec. 17: Chicken

nuggets, rice, green beans

Friday, Dec. 18: Dippers withdipping sauce, cauliflower

Lunches served with milk, fruit and salad bar.

St. Anthony’s SchoolMonday, Dec. 14: Creamy

chicken over rice, carrots, breadTuesday, Dec. 15: Tacos or

fajitas, soft shell or tortilla chips,refried beans

Wednesday, Dec. 16: Turkeymedallions, mashed potatoes

and gravy, corn, breadThursday, Dec. 17: Chili, un-

crustables, string cheeseFriday, Dec. 18: Cheese or

pepperoni pizzaLunches served with milk, fruit,

vegetables and salad.

Trinity Lutheran SchoolMonday, Dec. 14: Pizza stickswith pizza sauce, salad, veggies

and dip, grapes, apple barsTuesday, Dec. 15: Scalloped

potatoes with ham, green beans,carrots, pineapple, bread

Wednesday, Dec. 16: Ham-burger on bun, cheese slices,

French fries, broccoli with cheesesauce, baked beans

Thursday, Dec. 17: Chickennuggets, mashed potatoes and

gravy, mixed vegetablesFriday, Dec. 18: Rotini with

meatballs or meat sauce, stringcheese, salad, corn

Santa’s WorkshopThe Hartwig family from Athens spent time with Santa and Mrs. Claus during Santa’s Workshop Saturdayin the Athens Community Hall. Pictured, from left to right, are Benjamin, Lauryn and Annabelle. Meanwhiletheir brother Samuel looks on.

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Do you know someone from Athens we should know? Call us at 715-223-2342.

TELL ME ABOUT YOUR-SELF?I live five minutes outside of

Athens, and I am a sophomoreat Athens High School. I am infootball, wrestling and track.

WHAT’S YOURFAVORITESUBJECT INSCHOOL? It would prob-ably have tobe woodshopwhere we getto build things.

My teacher Kevin Koehler justgives us things to build like adog house or table. I am work-

ing on a coffee table this year.My building project is going pret-

ty good because I am close to fin-ishing it.

DID JOSH VAN RIX-EL BUILDING ACANOE IN LAST

YEAR’S CLASSMOTIVATE YOU?He was one of themost creative guysin that class last

year. He was just really good at workingwith wood. That really did motivate meto start doing better things in that class,because at first I just started out makingthings like bird feeders and dog housesand stuff like that, but now I am startingto go on to bigger things like making gun

racks.

Kevin Albrecht

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Athens Continued from page 6bert, Liam Weiler and Mariah Zinko-wich.

Honor RollTrinity Lutheran School has an-

nounced its first quarter honor rollfor the 2015-16 school term.

Highest HonorsEighth grade: Courtney Murkow-

ski.Seventh grade: Heidi Verpoorten.Sixth grade: Anna Nowicki and

Elizabeth Van Rixel.Fifth grade: Celina Ellenbecker.

High HonorsEighth grade: Chase Ellenbecker,

Tori Halopka and Michael Zoromski.Seventh grade: Anna Wheatley.Sixth grade: Andrew Frick and

Kenesha Schug.Fifth grade: Emma Ford.

HonorsEighth grade: Halle Albrecht, Cam-

eron Ford and Abby Van Rixel.

Seventh grade: Chi Anna Stencil.

Pay it forwardThe Athens class of 1975 is encour-

aging Athens High School students topursue a career after high school.

The class will provide over $1,000 offinancial assistance for educationalcourses including, but not limited to,music, computers, engineering or ag-riculture.

Partial reimbursement of 20 per-cent, but not greater than $200, will beprovided upon verification of comple-tion of an approved course.

The class of 1975 challenges all oth-er classes to “pay it forward.”

Athens Circle of JoyThe Athens Circle of Joy will again

sponsor the Giving Tree for children ofthe Athens School District whose fami-lies may not be able to buy gifts for theirchildren.

For more information, call Nathlie at715-257-7659.

School Christmas concertsThe Athens Middle and High School

choir and band Christmas concert willbe held Sunday, Dec. 20, at 2 p.m. in thehigh school gym.

The Athens Elementary School

Christmas program will be held Tues-day, Dec. 22, at 1 p.m. at Athens HighSchool.

The St. Anthony’s School Christmasprogram will be held Wednesday, Dec.16, at 7:30 p.m.

The Trinity Lutheran School Christ-mas service will be Sunday, Dec. 20, at 9and 10:30 a.m.

Deer hide donationsThe Berlin-Hamburg Lions Club is

accepting deer hides from hunters thisyear.

Hunters can drop off their deer hidesat Leroy Dehnel’s home located at 13305Woodland Drive in Wausau. He can becontacted at 715-675-9078.

All proceeds from the sale of deer

hides will be used for the WisconsinLions Camp, which provides a qualitycamping experience for children withdisabilities.

TLCThe TLC group (Tender Loving Care)

is offering free lessons on knittingand crocheting from 1:30-3 p.m. everyWednesday at the Athens Area Fire De-partment hall.

Call D. Strack at 715-257-7376 with

questions.

Advent WorshipTrinity Lutheran Church will hold

midweek Advent worship Dec. 9 and 16at 7 p.m.

A Christmas hymn sing will begin at6:40 p.m. Soup suppers will be servedeach week from 5-6:30 p.m.

Story TimeFamily Story Time is held at 10 a.m.

Tuesdays at the Athens Branch Library.It consists of stories and activities for

children newborn to five years old andtheir families.

Book clubThe Marathon County Public Library,

Athens Branch will host a book club

titled “A Christmas Carol” by CharlesDickens from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday,Dec. 10, at the library located at 221 Car-oline Street.

Schwan’s CaresTrinity PTL Schwan’s Cares

Fundraiser continues. Order atwww.schwanscares.com or call1-888-schwans and enter Trinity’scampaign number, 19117, and place anorder.

Any purchases placed over the nextperiod of time, Trinity will receivefive percent of sales. The fundraisergoes until March 2016.

This fundraising effort helps off-set funds for activities and otheritems that PTL helps pay for. If you

have any questions, call Vicki Halop-ka at 715-607-0716, or email her [email protected]. She can alsoassist you in placing an order.

Santa’s Workshop winnersSeveral children and adults were

drawing winners during Santa’sWorkshop held last Saturday in Ath-ens.

In the infant’s drawing: Sawyer Be-ran of Edgar won the Talking LeapFrog, Owen Kornack of Athens wonthe Wild Safari Train and KassidyBeasley of Athens won the CharlieBrown stuffed toy and book.

In the girl’s drawing: Kayleigh Tif-fany of Junction City won the inter-active Santa, Kendra Schug of Edgar

won a tent decorated in the Frozentheme and Jazelle Hartwig of Athenswon Bop It.

In the boy’s drawing: Stone Parkesof Athens won the glow in the darkhelicopter, Aiden Holzl of Medfordwon the Monster Ink character andbook and Jacob Cleveland of Athenswon the fire and rescue tent.

In the adult’s drawing: Kevin Yessaof Athens won the adult tent, DanielleRieck of Medford won the snow globeand Rick Schreiner of Athens wonthe outside penguin air blow.

Senior CitizensThe Senior Citizens card group met

Dec. 3 for weekly card playing at theAthens Area Fire and Ambulance Hall.

Three games of Sheepshead wereplayed.

Alvera Henrichs won the first gameand David Perrodin took second. Bet-ty Rogaczewski won the second gameand Pat Frank was second. RosemarieBergman won the third game and WilStrack placed second.

The Senior Citizens card group willmeet again Thursday, Dec. 10.

Deer camp! The best place on Earth!Hello friends,This is a summary of the first five days of deer camp for the Red Brush Gang. We call a

36’x18’ pole barn home each November, which we put up on public land in the MeadowValley Wildlife area.

By the last day of the season, over 25 people will have slept in it. Let me tell ya folks, wehunt hard and at night we have a lot of fun.

Saturday, November 21stHigh 35, low 22The majority of the gang came to

camp on Thursday night. With abouta dozen of our members being in the20 something age range, the evening

is just a blast for us conservative “oldtimers” to watch.There were several wrestling

matches. Yours truly would obtain riband head injuries with the rib injurieslasting the entire nine-day season. Thehead wound was so ugly I refusedto look at it the first six days I was atcamp.

Last night I cooked my meal for theseason, which was scalloped potatoesand ham, a hot dish made of rice, wild game and squash. In reality, you have to have about50 pounds of food to feed this gang. Once the meal is served, you get to belly up to the tablethe rest of the season and have someone else prepare your meals.

On opening morning there were 18 of us spread out over about 15 square miles.Twenty-seven-year-old Ryan Moll thought he saw deer as night was becoming day, and

that was confirmed when it became light enough. Ryan had what he described was an“incredibly easy shot” at a nine-point buck with an 18-inch spread. Ryan’s trophy had a very

busted up rack and would eventually win thethe Red Brush Gang’s big buck contest.

About three miles north, Doug Cibulka andhis 16-year-old son, Derek, were hunting an

area near the Sprague Mather Flowage. Just likelast year, Doug and Derek had an experiencewith a pack of wolves and later in the day theyrelocated. Doug saw a six-pointer going throughthe brush and made some venison.

Back in the area of our camp, Dick Schuster(who is in his mid 60s) climbs way up a pinetree and sits all day. He missed an easy shot ona six-pointer, tried a desperation shot and put abullet in its neck.

These three guys would be “buck brothers”for the night. As far as the rest of the gang goes,over half of us did not see a deer.

Selina and I hunted where we bow hunted. Ibelieve the water levels rising over 10 inches inwhat was dry marsh and then freezing into halfice pushed the deer out of our area. In two daysof dark-to-dark hunting, Selina and I would see

one deer.Tonight, as I have done for 44 consecutive years, I headed over to Necedah with the gang

and ate a turkey dinner at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church.

On Monday, after a very lively Sunday night at camp, we began a different method ofhunting deer, which is big drives that literally cover a square mile.

Everyone wears hip boots and carries a compass. All of us find out what kind of physicalcondition we are or are not in. Today we had pretty steady action but not such good success.

None of the adults has a doe tag. There are three kids that do. Three bucks were kickedup and it sounds like one of them would have won the big buck contest.

That buck was shot at by two hunters on a dead run and they both missed. The half icethat I was talking about is incredibly difficult to travel through. The marsh grass grabs yourlegs above the ice and you have to break ice to make the next step forward.

On Monday night it was down to Ross Moll, his dad, Jeff, (40 consecutive years) Doug,Selina and myself.

We ate a great meal, Jeff would not let Doug and I go to bed. The next day we huntedhard and that night we had visitors that kept us up late once again.

Every Red Brush Hunter is addicted to this place! Sunset

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vited to Family Fun Night “WeAre Soldiers” at MarathonCounty Public Library Edgar

Branch, 224 South Third Av-enue, Monday, Dec. 21, from6-7 p.m. Stories about soldiersand their adventures will beshared. Attendees are also en-couraged to share their ownstories, photos and letters.

This event is free and opento the public. No registrationis required.

For more information, call715-352-3155.

Hope LutheranHope Lutheran Church,

town of Frankfort, has sched-uled Christmas activities. Thechurch will host a Sundayschool Christmas program

Sunday, Dec. 20, at 9:30 a.m.There will be a Christmas Evecantata Wednesday, Dec. 24, 5p.m. Christmas Day worshipservice will be held Thursday,Dec. 25, at 9:30 a.m.

Snowmobile safetyA snowmobile safety

course will be taught Mondaythrough Wednesday, Dec. 2-30,4:30-8 p.m., at the Edgar FireStation. Registration formscan be picked up at the EdgarVillage Hall, St. John’s Schooloffice or at the Edgar MiddleSchool office.

For more information, con-tact Deb, 715-574-9100.

Family funEdgar Elementary School

has scheduled a Family FunNight of holiday bakingThursday, Dec. 17, 6-7 p.m.Families are welcome to at-tend. Each child will takehome a platter of freshly dec-

orated cookies.

Holiday concertsEdgar Public School has

announced its schedule ofholiday concerts. Students ingrades K-2 will perform Thurs-day, Dec. 10, at noon, followedby the students in grades 3-5 at1 p.m. Middle school students

in grades 6-8 will perform at 2p.m. The high school concert

is set for 7 p.m.Four-year-old kindergarten-

ers will give a concert, “Thereis Nothing in my Stocking!” at6 and 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14.There will be a reception inthe school cafeteria followingthe concert.

All concerts will be held inthe Edgar Public School audi-torium.

Country musicThe Edgar Fine Arts Associ-

ation will present Brad Eman-uel Sunday, Jan. 10, 2016, 1 p.m.in the Edgar High School au-ditorium. Doors open at noon.Tickets are available at BergSales, Edgar.

Emmanuel was voted tohave the best country band atthe 2103 Hodag Country Fest.

St. John’s program

The St. John’s School Christ-mas program will be heldSunday, Dec. 13, 1 p.m. in the

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All-state winnersThe Edgar High School one-

act play cast performed their

play, the Teen-Age, at theState Drama Festival at UW-Stevens Point Dec. 2.

Forty-two schools fromthroughout Wisconsin, rang-ing from Class A to Class Cschools, performed at the fes-tival.

The Edgar cast received anall-state award.

SCHOOL LUNCH

Santa visits FenwoodLocal children visited Santa and Mrs. Claus at Illusions Bar, Fenwood, on Saturday. The children are,from left to right, Carlie, Kale, Kyson and Keiarra Stahel. Their parents are Jeremy and Pamela Stahel,Fenwood. The Fenwood Lions Club invited the North Pole residents to Fenwood.

Edgar Public SchoolsMonday, Dec. 14: Mini corndogs, baked beans, peaches

Tuesday, Dec. 15: Taco saladon corn tortilla chips, shredded

cheese, refried beans, pineapple Wednesday, Dec. 16: Half day.

(sack lunches available)Thursday, Dec. 17: Pizza, fruit

slushies, green beans, pearsFriday, Dec. 18: Hamburgers,french fries, mandarin oranges

Lunches served with romainewith spinach, baby carrots

and milk.

St. John’s SchoolMonday, Dec. 14: Ham-

burger with cheese, bun, potatowedges, salad bar, pineapple

Tuesday, Dec. 15: Spaghetti,meat sauce, garlic bread, green

beans, peaches Wednesday, Dec. 16: Half day.

No hot lunch.Thursday, Dec. 17: Chickenpatty, bun, romaine, veggies,

pearsFriday, Dec. 18: Pizza, baked

chips, salad bar, mixed veggies,mixed fruit, dessert

Lunches served with milk.

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WHO ARE YOU?I’m Happy, one of the sevendwarves. I live in a cottage inthe woods.

WHAT ARE THEDWARVES LIKE?We’re a little different. We’rekind of unique.

WHAT ARE YOU DOINGIN EDGAR?I’m here to be part of the20th annual Edgar Christ-mas Parade.

WHERE DO YOU COMEFROM?I come from the Enchanted

Forest.

ARE YOU ALWAYSHAPPY?Oh, yes. I have nothing toworry about. I whistle while Iwork.

IS THIS THE FIRST TIME YOU WERE IN THE EDGAR PARADE?

Oh no. I’ve been in the pa-rade since forever…prob-ably 20 years.

SO YOU ENJOY THEPARADE?Sure. It’s fun.

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Kindness challengeThe Edgar Middle and High School

have challenged the Stratford Highand Middle School to a kindness chal-lenge.

The contest is for each school to col-lect the most “gently used” shoes byMonday, Dec. 14, to be donated to anorphanage in Africa.

All types of shoes can be donated,including flip flops, tennis shoes,boots and heels, in any size.

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Christmas dinnerThe Korner Kitchen, town of Wien,

will host a free Christmas dinner Fri-day, Dec. 25, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. All arewelcome. Donations will be collectedfor the Edgar/Marathon Circle of Joyfood pantry.

Bake saleSacred Heart Church, town of Cas-

sel, will hold a bake sale Saturday,Dec. 12, 9 a.m. until noon.

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SportsBLUEJAYS WILDCATS RED RAIDERS TIGERS

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Ten Stratford wrestlers finishedSaturday’s home Schoenherr Dualswith 5-0 records to help the Tigerseasily win the team tournamentchampionship.

Stratford opened the tournamentby manhandling Chequamegon, 84-0. The Tigers then beat Division 2Medford, 66-12, and Phillips, 76-3.

The Tigers pummeled Division1 Chippewa Falls, 79-0, before end-ing the day with a 62-15 win againstWautoma/Wild Rose.

Stratford entered Saturday’s com-petition as the third ranked team inthe Division 3 preseason high schoolwrestling rankings, according to wi

wrestling.com. The Tigers returnfour individual state championsfrom last season.

Stratford wrestlers who achieved5-0 records during the SchoenherrDuals were Macey Kilty at 106pounds, Jake Drexler at 113, A.J.Schoenfuss at 120, Jeremy Schoen-herr at 126, Jordan Becker at 138,Sam Wenzel at 145, Mason Kaufmanat 152, Dave Marquardt at 160, KamBornbach at 182 and Tyson Kauff-man at 285.

Derek Martin went 4-1 at 132pounds and Hector Rojas 4-1 at 220.Kyle Giebel went 2-0 at 195 and Di-lan Schoenherr 3-2 at 170.

Schoenfuss scored the most pinsin the least amount of time, in two

minutes and 34 seconds, of anywrestler competing in the Schoen-herr Duals.

Stratford coach Joe Schwabe waspleased with his team’s perfor-

mance.“I thought overall our team wres-

tled very well,” he said. “The kidswere aggressive and transitionedfrom one move to another quitesmoothly, something that usually

doesn’t occur until later in the sea-son. We did see some things that weneed to work on and that is what wewill focus on this week. Our condi-tioning was good and that certainlyhelped us in several key matchesagainst some very good individu-als.”

The Tigers varsity squad nextwrestles at 9:30 a.m. Saturday inthe Neenah tournament.

Stratford’s varsity reserve wres-tling team finished in sixth placeout of nine teams during Satur-day’s Black River Falls Invitation-al. The Tigers placed higher thanthe Auburndale and Abbotsford/Colby varsity squads.

Manny Drexler and Dilan Deh-

linger both finished with 3-0 re-cords, while Mavrick Licciardiwent 3-1.

Ty Pankratz, Kade Ehrike andKaelen Schmitt all finished with 1-2records, while Logan Peterson was1-1. Kolton Dahl, Jacob Pierce andEthan Young were all 0-2.

Athens captures the titleFive Athens wrestlers finished

with 5-0 records to help the Blue- jays win the John Robe rts Dua lsteam title Saturday at Antigo HighSchool.

Bluejay wrestlers who achieved5-0 records were Gabe Weiks at 106pounds, Jonny Albrech t at 126, KlayEllenbecker at 138, Austin Engel at152 and Marshall Westfall at 182.

Athens wrestlers who finishedwith 4-1 records include Kevin Al-brecht at 132 pounds, Nate Morseat 160, John Birkholz at 195, Dakota

Venzke at 220 and Tyson Som mer at285.

Andy Nowacki went 3-2 at 145pounds.

Athens coach Dale Westfall waspleased with Jordan Decker’s ef-fort, who took over wrestling at 170pounds after Jordan Zinkowich wasinjured. Decker finished with a 3-1record.

Athens beat Three Lakes, 63-18,and Menominee Indian, 64-18. TheBluejays also defeated Rosholt, 66-12, Antigo, 45-30, and Marathon, 48-19.

Westfall was also happy with howhis overall team wrestled to cap-ture the team championship.

“The team really wrestled well onSaturday in all five matches,” hesaid. “If you could script out theseason, this is the way you’d wantto start out every season.”

Athens next wrestles Thursday atPittsville, and then again Saturdayat 10 a.m. in the Wabeno tourna-ment.

Marathon finishes thirdThe Red Raiders wrestling team

took third place out of 10 teamsduring Saturday’s John RobertsDuals at Antigo High School.

Marathon’s top wrestlers wereJocob Mohr, finishing 5-0 at 285pounds, Kade n Calloway, 4-1 at 195 ,and Jordan Schneebe rger, 3-2 at 182.

Marathon’s team will next wres-tle at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Bril-lion tournament.

The Red Raiders will face offagainst Chequamegon at 6 p.m.Thursday, Dec. 17, at Edgar HighSchool. Marathon will take on Phil-lips at 7:30 p.m., following the firstmatch in E dgar.

Edgar doesn’t fare well

The Wildcats wrestling teamwent 0-5 in matches at Saturday’sWausau West tournament. No sta-tistics were provided.

Edgar next wrestles at home at 6p.m. Thursday, Dec. 17, agai nst Phil-lips, and then at 7:30 p.m. againstChequamegon.

Tigers dominate home dualsBluejays arechamps in the

Antigo tourney

PROUD CHAMPS-The Athens wrestling team celebrates with their team championshiptrophy after winning the John Roberts Duals Saturday at Antigo High School. PHOTO BY DARIN WEIKS SR.

READY FOR BATTLE-Stratford senior Sam Wenzel begins his wrestling match againstMedford’s Preston Carlson Saturday morning during the Schoenherr Duals at StratfordHigh School. Wenzel won by major decision with a 9-0 score.



The Record-Review December 9, 2015

SPORTS CALENDAR

Thursday, December 10 Athens - Wrestling at Pittsville, 7

p.m.; boys basketball at Chequa-megon, 7:30 p.m.

Marathon - Wrestling vs. Auburn-dale, 7 p.m.

Friday, December 11Athens - Girls basketball vs. Phil-

lips, 7:30 p.m.Edgar - Girls basketball vs. Rib

Lake, 7:15 p.m.; boys basketball atOwen-Withee, 7:30 p.m.

Marathon - Boys basketball atPittsville, 7:15 p.m.

Stratford - Girls basketball at Au-burndale, 7:15 p.m.; boys basket-ball vs. Newman Catholic.

Saturday, December 12 Athens - Wrestling at Wabeno

tourney, 10 a.m.Marathon - Wrestling at Brillion

tourney, 9:30 a.m.

Stratford - Wrestling at Neenahtournament, 9:30 a.m.

Monday, December 14 Edgar - Girls basketball vs. Mara-

thon, 7:15 p.m.

Marathon - Girls basketball at Ed-gar, 7:15 p.m.; boys basketball vs.Spencer, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, December 15 Athens - Boys basketball vs. Phil-lips, 7:30 p.m.

Edgar - Boys basketball vs. Iola-Scandinavia, 7:30 p.m.

Stratford - Girls basketball vs. RibLake, 7:30 p.m.; boys basketball at Auburndale, 7:15 p.m.

By Bryan Wegter The Star News

Despite a lead as large as 11 at onepoint in the first half, the StratfordTigers couldn’t hang on during Mon-day’s nonconference boys basketballgame. The Redmen’s press defensewore down the Tigers and allowedthem to leave Stratford High Schoolwith the 68-64 win.

A Cole Hoffman three put the Ti-gers up four with five minutes left.

Rib Lake’s Austin Ewan went rightback the other way and knockeddown a right-wing three. JoeScheithauer’s putback with 3:38 re-maining gave the Redmen a 58-57lead, their first since the 10-minutemark of the first half.

Noah Weinke hit a pull-up jumperto make it a three-point game. NickStoflet made a pair of foul shots tomake it a one-point game again, butStratford couldn’t overturn the defi-cit as Rib Lake scored the next sixpoints.

The Tigers (2-2) will host NewmanCatholic Friday at 7:15 p.m. in theirfirst Marawood South contest of theseason. Rib Lake (2-1) heads intoNorth play Thursday against Pren-

tice.Stoflet and Ethan Nagel scored 15

apiece to lead Stratford. The Tigerswere a solid 25 of 53 (47 percent)from the field, but a poor night ofoutside shooting, three for 17 (17percent) from three-point range, wasa factor in the loss. Derrick Schmidtscored 14 and grabbed six boards.Stoflet led the team with five assists.

In the first half, three baskets in aspan of 30 seconds, two by Schmidtand another by Stoflet, gave Strat-ford a 17-9 lead. The Tigers routinelyfound ways to break down Rib Lake’sfull-court press, leading to a 35-27halftime advantage. The Redmenswitched to a three-quarters 1-3-1trap in the second half and used sev-

eral turnovers by Stratford to go ona 15-5 run that cut the Tigers lead toone with 5:30 left to play. Scheithau-er led Rib Lake with 25 points and 14rebounds.

The Tigers beat Owen-Withee, 65-58, last Thursday in a nonconference

game. Schmidt led Stratford with19 points and seven boards. Nagelchipped in 15 points, including threethree-pointers, and Cole Hoffmanhad 15 points.

Stratford attempted only 41 shotsfrom the field, but made up the dif fer-ence by making 15 free throws. Hoff-man and Brenden Fecker had foureach. Nagel and Schmidt both madethree foul shots. The Tigers shot 53percent on their field goal attempts,including six of 16 from distance.

The Blackhawks were led by 28points from Josiah Goerlitz.

The game was tied at 22 at the

break. Stratford outscored Owen-Withee, 43-36, in the second half toearn the win.

Bluejays off to slow startAuburndale doubled up Athens, 60-

30, at home Dec. 3 in the season-open-

ing game. It was also the first gamefor new co-head coaches Sam Baumand Aaron Ellenbecker.

“I was really proud of our efforttonight,” Baum said after the defeatto the Apaches. “We came out and wereally stuck with them for at leastthe first half, and then they went

on a run because we couldn’t breaktheir zone defense, which is some-thing we need to work on in practice.I was really happy with our press atthe end of the game, but I just wishwe would’ve put it on sooner.”

Justin Kelly was the only Athensplayer who scored in double figureswith 11 points.

The Bluejays lost their secondgame of the season, 76-40, to WausauNewman Catholic Tuesday night inAthens.

Kelly paced the Bluejays with 18points.

Athens plays Thursday night atChequamegon, followed by a homegame Tuesday against Phillips.

Rockets nip WildcatsEdgar and Spencer were tied athalftime at 26 points apiece, but theRockets were able to edge the Wild-cats at the end of the game with a 58-53 win over Edgar.

Lucas Deschiens led Edgar with11 points in the losing effort, whileAlec Hafferman added 10. Josh Bur-ish and Tyler Engel each chipped innine points, while Matt Urmanskiadded seven.

Bobby Pilz led Spencer with agame-high 22 points.

Edgar (1-2) plays at 7:30 p.m. Fri-day at Owen-Withee, and then athome Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. match-up against Iola-Scandinavia.

Red Raiders are winnersMarathon got in the win column

this season with a 58-49 nonconfer-ence win against Neillsville at homeTuesday night.

Senior Xavier Lechleitner ledthe Red Raiders with 12 points, fivesteals, four assists and four re-bounds.

Donovan Free and Bryce Seubertchipped in eight points apiece. Na-than Stoffel and Kellen Vetter eachadded seven points, while HunterBaumann tied with Lechleitner forthe team lead with four assists.

Marathon improves to 1-1 in theyoung season after the Red Raidersopened the year with a 60-57 loss atMosinee.

The Red Raiders return to actionFriday with a 7:15 p.m. game at Pitts-ville, and then at home Monday for a7:30 p.m. contest against Spencer.

Tigers split pair of gamesRed Raidersbeat Warriors

NOT IN MY HOUSE-Stratford’s Jacob Danen (22) blocks the shot attempt of Rib Lake’sNick Eisner (2) during Monday’s non-conference boys basketball game at Stratford HighSchool. Rib Lake won 68-64.

STAFF PHOTO/BRYAN WEGTER



BOWLING SCORES

Marathon CitySports Center

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LADIESDECEMBER 2, 2015

High game: Carla Seliger 255;high series: Donna Courchaine,

629.TEAM STANDINGSMyszka Oil Co. 31.5 20.5Marathon Cheese 30 22Village Inn 28 24Marathon City SP 27 25Brickner Motors 24.5 27.5Red Woof Pet Resort 23 29Peoples State Bank 23 29Bowling Chicks 21 31

SATURDAY NIGHT COUPLESNOVEMBER 28, 2015

Men’s high game and series:Dan Cherek 268, 790; women’shigh game and series: 215, 546.TEAM STANDINGS4 Muskateer 8 0The Four ST’s 6 2L & L 4 4Town & Country 3 5Cougar Camp 2 6

Biscuits & Gravy 1 7

Jan’s 11th FrameTHURSDAY 3-MAN

DECEMBER 3, 2015 High game: Doug Brodziski246; high series: Taran Brodziski696.TEAM STANDINGSSD Ellenbecker 31 17Here 4 beer 28.5 19.5D’s Liquor Box 25 23Fischer Transportation 23 25Bunkelman’s Sugarbush23 25WWE 21 27Peter Trucking 21 27Jan’s 11th Frame 19.5 28.5

Memory LanesMONDAY NIGHT LADIES

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

High game: Linda Murkowski196; high series: Lindsey Heier,498.TEAM STANDINGSWeiler Electric 25.5 14.5Ladies With Balls 24 16KBV 20.5 15.5Just Us 15 25Pro-Plow 11 25

TUESDAY TWO-HOUSEDECEMBER 1, 2013

High game: Doug Brodziski,253; high series: Paul Lavicka,635.

TEAM STANDINGSMemory Lanes II 32 16Memory Lanes I 29 19Rothenberger Custom 28 2011th Frame 25 23Nubby’s Service 24 24Switlick & Sons 23 25

S.D. Ellenbecker 22 26Schreiner Trucking 20 28M & M Bakery 19 29

Agri-Science Center 18 30

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LADIESDECEMBER 2, 2015

High game and series: JaneSchafer, 233, 599.TEAM STANDINGSIGA 37.5 14.5Burger Construction 28 24Haines Trucking 21.5 31.5Memory Lanes 17 35

Edgar LanesMONDAY NIGHT LADIES

NOVEMBER 30, 2015High game: Margie Wenzel,

190; high series: Betty Werner,522.TEAM STANDINGS

Edgar Lanes 28 20Boehm Insurance 27 21Pro-Plow 27 21Werner Insurance 25 23The Foxy Four 24 24

Advantage Community 13 35

MONDAY NIGHT 3-PERSONPRIDE

NOVEMBER 30, 2015High men’s game: Trevor

Ballerstein, 268; high series:Jere Bohn, 748. High women’sgame and series: Linda Rin-inger, 221, 504.TEAM STANDINGSEdgar Lanes 145 95Edgar Lanes II 139.5 100.5Chad’s Auto Repair 130 110BS’s Bar & Grill 127 113Pro-Plow 125.5 114.5Werner Insurance 102.5 137.5

Edgar Lanes III 98.5 141.5Edgar Lanes PS 92 148

TUESDAY NIGHT LEAGUEDECEMBER 1, 2015

Men’s high game: Roger Winch,180; high series: Tom Ledin,503. Women’s high game andseries: 154, 417.TEAM STANDINGSTNT 43 21Hawkeyes 37.5 26.5Hoggers 25.5 38.5Cooters 22 42

WEDNESDAY NIGHT LATELEAGUE

DECEMBER 2, 2015High game: Brandon Schilling,

266; high series: Greg Epping,691.

TEAM STANDINGSBrandon’s Farm Serv 173.5 138.5Werner Insurance 3 168.5 143.5Werner Insurance 1 159.5 152.5Werner Insurance 2 148 164Boehm Insurance 147 165Edgar IGA 139.5 172.5

WEDNESDAY WILDCATLEAGUE

DECEMBER 2, 2015High game: Scott Brewster,

257; high series: Larry VanArk,708.TEAM STANDINGSBrandon’s Farm Serv.255 135

Amity Screening 221.5 168.5Edgar Lanes II 201 189Round of Mulligans192.5 197.5Boehm Insurance 188 202Edgar Lanes 180.5 209.5Edgar Lanes PS 176.5 213.5

Edgar Lanes III 145 245

SATURDAY NIGHT MIXEDCOUPLES

DECEMBER 5, 2015High men’s game: Jere Bohn,

255, high series: Jim Moore,715; high women’s game: Tam-my Henrichs, 249; high series:Dani Schreiner, 589.TEAM STANDINGSEdgar Lanes 12 4Ball Burners 12 4Tucking Fen Pin 10 6MadKRB 8 8Fuzz’s Boozers 7 9The Back Yarders 6 10Odds & Ends 5 11Sandbaggers 4 12

Edwin Memorial

LanesMIDWEEK MIXEDDECEMBER 2, 2015

Men’s high game and series:Dan Teska, 223, 642; women’shigh game and series: JessFrederick, 201, 578.TEAM STANDINGSPioneer Bank 32 20Weiler Dairy 31 21Mar By 31 21Watering Trough 28 24Financial Strategies 27 25B & I Lumber 26 26Ultra Com 15.5 36.5

PORTS

View from thecheap seats

A weekly perspectiveon sports

Casey

Krautkramer

Reporter

The Record-

Review

It’s neat to see the Athens varsitywrestling team win its opening-sea-son tournament last weekend in An-tigo.

Having grown up in Marathon, Ivividly remember the glory days ofAthens wrestling in the 1980s and1990s.

I graduated from Marathon HighSchool in 1996, around the time whenAthens wrestlers Kraig Underwoodand Shawn Ange were winning statechampionships.

The Athens wrestling program

may never be as good as it once wasunder Hall of Fame coach Jerry Wag-ner, but it is cool to see the programhaving some success again.

I know that current Athens coachDale Westfall, an AHS alum whowrestled for Wagner, would love tobring the program back to its formerdominance. But realistically, withdeclining school enrollment now,compared to the ‘80s and ‘90s, therearen’t as many kids to choose fromfor wrestling.

So even though the Athens wres-tling program may never be as domi-nant again, I am going to enjoy itscurrent and future successes thisseason.

Many coaches in the Marawood

Conference feel that Athens is thesecond-best team this season behinddefending champion Stratford.

It is just cool that Athens hasenough wrestlers to fill the startingweight classes this season, unlikemany of the other conference teams.

Stratford’s wrestling programfinds itself in a unique position com-pared to the other Marawood teamsin that coach Joe Schwabe has a var-

sity team and a varsity reserve teamthat competes in weekend tourna-ments.

This past weekend the Stratfordvarsity team easily won its homeSchoenherr Duals, while the varsityreserve team had a respectable fin-ish ahead of the Auburndale varsityteam. If the varsity reserve teamis able to beat the Apaches varsitysquad, then I don’t expect much of acompetitive match when the two var-sity teams face off in conference playthis season.

Pittsville used to have good varsitywrestling teams that would fill all ormost of the weight classes. But dueto declining enrollment and a changein head coaches, the Panthers are nolonger a formidable conference foe.

Marathon’s team is on the up-swing, and adding Underwood as aco-coach should help the program.Wrestlers will respect a four-timestate individual wrestling champion.He was inducted, along with Wagner,into the AHS wrestling Hall of Famelast year. This year it’s cool that thelate Pat Switlick, the Bluejay’s firstever state wrestling champion, willbe inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Back to Stratford, it will be aninteresting competition this sea-

son between freshmen Mace Kiltyand Manny Drexler for the starting106-pound spot on the Tigers varsityteam.

Kilty won the first faceoff and wasallowed to start for the varsity teamduring the Schoenherr Duals, andDrexler was on the varsity reserveteam during last weekend’s tourna-ment in Black River Falls.


The Stratford girlsbasketball team re-mains undefeatedthis season afterknocking off per-renial state powerWausau Newman

Catholic in overtime, 49-46, Tues-day night in Wausau.

The Tigers improve to 5-0 and 2-0in the Marawood South Conference,

while Newman Catholic dropped to2-2 and 0-2 in the conference.

Andie Zuelke led the Tigers with ateam-high 12 points, Sammy Gries-bach added 10 and Kaylee Hollatzhad eight points and 11 rebounds.

Newman Catholic built a 25-21advantage at halftime, only to haveStratford roar back to tie the game

and force it into overtime. The Ti-gers held off Newman Catholic, 8-5,in the extra period.

Stratford easily beat NorthlandLutheran, 48-32, on the road lastFriday.

Savannah Schillinger scoreda game-high 15 points while Ma-cie Freuh added 14 and Griesbachchipped in 10. Hollatz and Zuelkeled the team with 10 reboundsapiece.

Stratford’s next game is at 7:15p.m. Friday at Auburndale, who isalso unbeaten at 4-0 and 1-0 in theMarawood South.

Red Raiders easily winThe Red Raid-ers had no troubleagainst Pittsvilleon the road Tuesdaynight, resulting inan 82-17 win.

Natasha Hankescored a game-high 22 points for

Marathon, while Olivia Meuretteadded 16 and Alison Stieber chippedin 11.

The Red Raiders improved to 4-1overall and 2-0 in the MarawoodSouth. Marathon’s only defeat thisseason was to Division 1 Marshfieldin the Antigo tournament. Mara-thon next plays at 7:15 p.m. Mondayin Edgar.

Athens falls to Rib LakeThe Bluejays en-

dured a heartbreak-ing 40-36 defeat athome to Rib Lake lastFriday in its Mara-

wood North opener.Athens falls to 1-2

in the young season.Bluejays freshman Kenadi Died-

rich tied Rib Lake’s Katie Cardeywith a game-high 15 points. HannaEllenbecker added six points forAthens while Kaylyn Schreinerchipped in five.

No results were received fromthe team’s game Tuesday night atChequamegon. Athens next playsat home Friday night against Phil-lips.

Edgar goes 1-1 on roadEdgar beat Prentice,

54-28, on the road lastFriday, and then lostat Auburndale, 45-30,Monday.

Individual game sta-tistics were not provid-

ed before the printing deadline.The Wildcats return to action at

7:15 p.m. Friday at home against

Rib Lake, and then at 7:15 p.m. athome Monday against Marathon.

Tigers outlast Newman in OTRed Raidersstill on a roll



OBITUARIES


Amella BeilkeAmella P. Beilke, 85, died Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, at

Aspirus Wausau Hospital.She was born March 17, 1930, in the township of Rib

Falls, daughter of the late Henry and Clara (Riehle)Kage. On Aug. 29, 1959, she married Raymond Beilke atSt. Mary Catholic Church, Marathon. He preceded herin death on Jan. 10, 2006.

Amella graduated from UW-Stevens Point andcontinued her education at the University of NorthernColorado in Greeley, graduating on May 31, 1964, witha master of arts degree in elementary education. Shetaught at Washington Heights one-room schoolhouse and also at Longfellowin Wausau. Later, she farmed ginseng with her husband in the town ofStettin. During this time, they created Ray & Amella Beilke Incorporated.They also enjoyed traveling to Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. Amella was a member of the Homemaker’s Club and also enjoyeddancing with the Star Dusters.

Survivors include her sister-in-law, Norma Miller, and her children,Terry (Jolyn) Miller and Deborah (Donald) Lepak; brother-in-law, Helmuth(Beverly) Beilke; nieces and nephews, Charlene (Tom) Hamerla, Kristine

Fjelstad, Colette (Marty) Krahn, Thomas Kage, Pamela (Joe) Osswald,Patricia Kage, Jacalyn (Delton) Karlen, Jeffrey Kage, Stephen Kage, Douglas(Jean) Kage, Theresa Kage, Mark (Lori) Kage, Jayme (Francis) Krautkramer,Katherine (Jeff) Strassman, Patrick (Brenda) Kage, Shelia (Jim) Wirig, Peter(Julie) Kage, Michael (Maryann) Kage and Shawn (Shelley) Kage.

Besides her parents and husband, Raymond, she was preceded in death bybrothers, Ray, Harold, Herbert, Wilfred and Leroy Kage; a niece, GretchenEaston; and a nephew, Andrew Kage.

The funeral Mass was celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015, at St.Mary Catholic Church, Marathon. Rev. Msgr. Joseph Diermeier presided.Burial was in the parish cemetery. Friends called Saturday from 9 a.m. untilthe time of service, all at the church.

A special thank you to the staff and caregivers at Mountain Terrace forall the support and guidance you gave Amella over the last few years. Alsoto the EMS personnel, ER department at Aspirus Wausau Hospital andChaplain Jeff for your compassionate care.

Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home, Marathon, assisted the familywith the arrangements. Online condolences may be expressed at www.petersonkraemer.com.

Paid obituary 49-176577

Walter TheisenWalter R. Theisen, 88, Stratford, died peacefully

on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at Stoney River AssistedLiving, Marshfield.

He was born on Sept. 21, 1927, in Fond du Lac toGeorge and Anna (Bonnlender) Theisen. He attendedSt. Andrew’s Parochial School in Rozellville. Hemarried Ila L. Wolff on Sept. 26, 1956, at St. John’sCatholic Church, Marshfield. She died on Jan. 30, 2012.

Walter farmed in the town of Day his entire lifeand also worked at Clover Hill Dairy. In his youngeryears he enjoyed fishing and bowling. He loved playingcards, especially sheepshead.

He is survived by eight children, David (Jolene) Theisen of Stratford,Sharon (Kim) Beisner of Dorchester, Roger (Kris) Theisen of Marshfield,Carol (Greg) Weber of Stratford, Duane (Bev) Theisen of Spencer, DonaldTheisen of Stratford, Russell (Wendy) Theisen of Marshfield and Susan(Steve) Breseman of Marshfield. He is also survived by nine grandchildren,Kevin Beisner, Brittany (Brian) Drexler, Benjamin Theisen, MatthewTheisen, Jon Kalsow, Casey Beisner, Michelle (Nick) Burington, ZacharyTheisen and Skyler Theisen; and three great-grandchildren, Alyssa, Andrew

and Ethan Drexler.He was predeceased by his parents; his wife; and two sisters, Lucille

Mannigel and Agnes Kloehn.A Mass of Christian burial was held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 7,

2015, at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Rozellville, with Rev. SengoleVethamanickam presiding. Burial took place in the parish cemetery andgrandchildren served as pallbearers. The visitation was held from 4-8 p.m.on Sunday at Sauter/Rembs Funeral Home, Stratford, and on Monday from9:30 a.m. until service time at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church.

The family wishes to thank the staff of Stoney River Assisted Living andAsera Care Hospice for the wonderful care they provided.

Condolences may be sent online to www.rembsfh.com. Paid obituary 49-176631

Sister Cordelle AdamsSister Cordelle Adams, Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration, 83,

died on Nov. 23, 2015, at Villa St. Joseph, La Crosse. She was in the 61st yearof her religious profession.

Sister Cordelle was born Aug. 31, 1932, in Stratford to Felis and Ethel(Raleigh) Adams.She received the name Alice Mae Adams at her baptism. Alice was the

youngest of 11 children. They grew up on a farm. As a large family, theyenjoyed all types of outdoor sports. She remembers the love for family andhome and once said, “Despite the many little ‘scraps’ children do get into, Iwas always sure I’d never trade a one of them!”

She attended Fairchild Public Country School for her first two years,then St. Joseph School in Stratford through grade eight. Her father diedshortly after her 10th birthday. It was at that time (during the war) that herfamily took in homeless children. In all, over the years, they had nine suchchildren.

Alice attended Stratford Public High School, where she graduated in 1950.After graduating from high school she worked for a year in Wausau withEmployer’s Mutual Life Insurance Company. It was during that year thatshe felt God’s call to be a sister.

Alice Adams entered St. Rose Convent in 1951. She was received into thenovitiate on Aug. 12, 1952, where she received the name, Sister Cordelle. Sheprofessed her first vows on Aug. 12, 1954.

Sister Cordelle initially entered the field of education, receiving abachelor’s degree in education from Viterbo College (Viterbo University)and later a master’s degree in education from Notre Dame University,Notre Dame, Ind. She taught for 22 years in Wisconsin, Washington andIowa. In 1978, she shifted ministry and received a prenursing degree fromWisconsin Western Technical Institute (Western Technical College). Thistransition led her to a career in social services and home care in Wisconsin,mostly in La Crosse, for the next 20 years. In 1999, Sister Cordelle movedto St. Rose Convent and served as a volunteer. Villa St. Joseph became herhome in 2007.

Sister Cordelle is survived by her Franciscan community; her sister,Cordelia Gillett of Estes Park, Colo.; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, Robert, Bernard,Herman, Eugene, Arnold and Fr. Benedict (Clarence), OFM; and her sisters,Marie Sattler, Margaret Fleece and Frances Steines.

Sister Cordelle asked to be cremated. The Mass of Christian burial wascelebrated on Tuesday, Dec. 1, in Mary of the Angels Chapel. Burial tookplace at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, 912

Market Street, La Crosse, WI 54601-4782. Paid obituary 49-176682

Eugene DrewekEugene J. Drewek, 84, Wausau, died

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, at his home.He was born May 28, 1931.A memorial Mass was held at noon

Friday, Dec. 4, at Holy Family CatholicChurch in Poniatowski with the Rev.

Robert Streveler presiding. Burial wasin Calvary Cemetery in Athens. Friendscalled Friday from 10 a.m. until the timeof service, all at the church.

Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home as-sisted the family with arrangements.

Alice PetriAlice B. Petri, 84, Auburndale, died

Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at Country Ter-race Assisted Living in Stratford.

She was born Feb. 7, 1931.A funeral service was held at 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, at Grace LutheranChurch in the town of Green Valleywith the Rev. Darryl Kenagy presid-

ing. Burial took place in St. Paul’s Lu-theran Church cemetery in the town ofDay, Marathon County. Visitation washeld from 9:30 a.m. until service time atGrace Lutheran Church.

Rembs Funeral Home assisted thefamily with arrangements.

Florence DenfeldFlorence “Mousie” M. Denfeld, 76, Ed-

gar, died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, at Aspi-rus Wausau Hospital.

She was born April 6, 1939.A funeral Mass was celebrated at 11

a.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at St. John CatholicChurch in Edgar with the Rev. Thomas

Huff presiding. Friends called Thurs-day from 4-7 p.m. and again Friday from10 a.m. until the time of service, all atthe church.

Peterson/Kraemer Funeral Home as-sisted the family with arrangements.

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phone or online beginningMonday, Dec. 7, at 5:45 a.m.Nonmembers can stop by theswim center at 401 4th Streetto register and pay the fee orpay on-line by accessing thelink at masaswim.org/lessons.html beginning Monday, Dec.14, at 5:45 a.m.

Preschool classes for chil-dren six months to five yearsand progressive classes forchildren over six years old areavailable Mondays, Tuesdays,Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Adult lessons are also avail-able as six-week sessions.

Basketball tourneyA girls and boys varsity and

junior varsity basketball tour-nament will be held Tuesdayand Wednesday, Dec. 30 and 31,at Marathon High School.

St. Mary’s honor roll St. Mary’s School, mara-

thon, has reported its honorroll for the first quarter of the2015-16 school year.

Eighth GradeHigh honors-Kyli Blume,

Sierra Eckardt, Katrina Fred-rickson, Sarah Fritz, GraceGage, Shane Kahan, BaileyKarlen, Breanne Karlen, Mar-guerite Stoffel.

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Singing like angelsThird and fourth-graders

sang “Off to the Woods” as

part of their performanceof The Sharing Tree at theSt. Mary’s School Christmasprogram Monday.

The program included amini-play by the fifth througheighth-graders entitled, “TheMall and the Night Visitor.”

The first and second-grad-ers performed “The CookieCutter Song,” “Mary had aLittle Lamb” and “The MagicPenny.”

Marathon PublicSchools

Monday, Dec. 14: Chickennuggets, mashed potatoes and

gravy, corn, breadTuesday, Dec. 15: Mini corn

dogs, fish nuggets, greenbeans, cookie

Wednesday, Dec. 16: Burger

on a bun, potato wedges, bakedbeans

Thursday, Dec. 17: Italianchicken on a bun, steamed

vegetablesFriday, Dec. 18: Grilled

cheese, tomato soup, crackers

Lunches served with fruit,salad bar and milk.

St. Mary’s SchoolMonday, Dec. 14: Pizza stickswith marinara sauce, veggie tray,

fruit cocktail, Rice Krispie barTuesday, Dec. 15: Chicken fa-jita, soft shell with fixings, refried

beans, peaches

Wednesday, Dec. 16: Chickenand gravy, mashed potatoes,

corn, mandarin oranges, cookieThursday, Dec. 17: BBQ on abun, cheese, french fries, pearsFriday, Dec. 18: Pancakes,

cheese omelet, tater tots, straw-berries with whipped cream

Lunches served with fruit,salad bar and milk.

SCHOOL LUNCH

mann, Elizabeth Boehm,Elsa Hahn, Emma Handrick,Darin Karlen, Will Prihoda,

Aaron Schumacher, JosephStephan.

Seventh GradeHigh honors-Hope Kraut-

kramer.Honors-Anna Cleven, Ky-

lie Draeger, Michael Hahn,Kaitlyn Kaiser, HunterKrautkramer, Lyndsay Pin-tor, Jacob Sweno, JaredSweno.

Sixth GradeHigh honors-Stefani

Cheskey, Noah Gage.Honors-Katlyn Bahr,

Noah Fritz, Isaac Hackel,McKenna Haehlke, LucyHahn, Tanner Hanke, Mi-chael Kindlarski, EllaMader, Jada Prihoda, KaylaRadtke, Camryn Sapinski,Nicholas Sommers, JohnStoffel, Sofia Tylinski.

St. John’s and ZionSt. John’s and Zion Lu-

theran Churches, town of RibFalls, have announced theirupcoming schedule.

Worship service will be heldSunday, Dec. 13, 9 a.m. at St.John’s. A children’s Christ-mas practice will follow from10 to 11 a.m. The catechismclass will meet in the St.John’s basement Wednesday,Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m. A ChristmasEve practice will be held thatevening.

St. Matthew’sSt. Matthew’s Church, Mar-

athon, has reported upcomingevents:

Worship services will beheld at 8 and 10:15 a.m. Sunday,Dec. 13, with Sunday schooland Bible class at 9:10 a.m.There will be a Sunday schoolluncheon at 11:30 a.m. A Sun-day school program practicewill be held from noon to 1:30

p.m. The choir will practice at7 p.m.Monday, Dec. 14, the church

council meets at 7 p.m. There

will be a 3:30-5:30 p.m. cate-chism class and a 6:30 p.m. Bi-ble instruction class Wednes-day, Dec. 16.

BirthA son, Kardel James, was

born to Kord and JamieStieber, Marathon, Nov. 29,2015, at the As pirus Wausau

Holiday duetSecond-graders Mya Buchberger and Madeline Kelter sing “Let ItGo” from the movie Frozen during Thursday’s holiday concert in theMarathon Area Elementary School gymnasium.

WHO ARE YOU?I am St. Nicholas. I am here atthe Marathon City History Centerto meet some children.

WHERE DID YOU COMEFROM?I originated in Germany. I amvery old.

HOW DID YOU GET TO BE ASAINT?I performed many miracles. I ama very holy guy.

WHAT’S THAT BOOK?That’s my book where I havethe names of all of the childrenand whether they are naughtyor nice. If they are nice, they canget a little toy or candy. If they arenaughty, then they get a lump ofcoal. That will make the naughtychildren think twice.

IS THAT ENVIRONMENTAL-LY SAFE?There is plenty of coal yet.

ARE THERE ANYNAUGHTY MARATHONCHILDREN?There are lots of goodchildren in Marathon.I haven’t met anynaughty kids yet.

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Marathon Continued from page 14Hospital. The infant weighed eightpounds, six ounces and measured

19 inches at birth.

Fall sports awardsMarathon High School recently held

its fall awards night.

Letter winnersFootball: Sam Buchberger, Noah

Dirks, Dane Fischer, Gunnar Fredrick-son, Ryan Gassner, Brandon Karlen,Spencer Krautkramer, Tyler Lemke,Ben Martin, Devin Mathwich, JacobMohr, Justin Natzke, Reid Parks, AlexRobbins, Karter Underwood, KellenVetter, Landen Williamson, PrestonWirkus, Connor Ziebell, Zachary An-klam, Hunter Baumann, Kaden Cal-loway, Zach Hanke, Collin Kuehn, Da-kota Longdo, Sam Phillips, Mitchell

Putnam, Riley Rhyner, Bryce Seubert,Nathan Stoffel, Donavon Free, JordanSchneeberger, Michael Lang, RichieSeubert.

Cross country: Jordan Balz, SilasBeranek, Anna Buchberger, NathanFranke, Sam Fritz, Skylar Gage, JacobHilgendorf, William Hilgendorf, JoeKraimer, Xavier Lechleitner, KarenaMalluege, Evan Pilgrim, Bryn Pilgrim,Hunter Reed, Ericka Robbins, JosephSedivy, Carson Seehafer, Vanesse Seu-bert, Alison Stieber, Alysha Stieber.

Volleyball: Jenna Dick, Jayci Blume,Courtney Ford, Ashley Denfeld, KyraHandrick, Morgan Rachu, BrookeBalz, Julia Anderson, Paige Kurtz, Ol-ivia Meurette, Kennedy Ringle, Nata-sha Hanke, Amanda Kind.

Special awardsFootball: Ryan Gassner, offensive

most valuable player; Sam Buchberger,defensive most valuable player; JustinNatzke, most improved; Alex Robbins,Mr. Marathon Football.

Volleyball: Olivia Meurette, mostvaluable player.

Cross country: Xavier Lechleitnerand Anna Buchberger, most valuablerunners; Alysha Stieber and JordanBalz, most improved runners; KarenaMalluege, Miss Committed Runner; Jo-seph Sedivy, Mr. Committed Runner.

All kinds of businesses like to givetheir employees toy-scale models oftheir company semi-tractor trailersas a gift.

For Rib Falls collector Steve Baese-man, he can’t get enough of them.

Sunday he displayed his prolificcollection of 350 164th scale semitrucks at the FFA Alumni Farm ToyShow held at Marathon Area Elemen-tary School.

The collection of mini trucks,parked nose to nose, filled several ta-bles. His son, Ted, 12, has somethingof the collector’s bug too. He ownshundreds of Matchbox cars.

The senior Baeseman said he start-ed collecting the model trucks backin high school and now, as an adult,is still devoted to his collection.

“When I built my house, I installedglass-fronted cabinets to display allof them,” he said. “Now I have somany that they have to be stored inboxes down in the basement.”

Baeseman said he collects trucksbecause, as a former truck driver, heknows their importance. He admirestruck drivers too.

“I like trucks,” he said. “Theykeep the economy going. I respecttruck drivers too. They put in a lot of

hours.”Baeseman said many of his trucksare plastic, but most are die-cast met-al.

Although he has many models, hedoesn’t have even a fraction of thetotal made.

“There are thousands,” he said.His most valuable truck model is

worth $2,000.Baeseman said he doesn’t have a

list of “must have” models for hiscollection.

“Basically, I am just looking forsomething that catches my eye,” hesaid.

Rib Falls man enjoys collectingfleet of mini semi trucks

PROMOTIONAL TRUCKS ON DISPLAY -Steve Baeseman and his son Ted, both of Rib Falls, displayed a collection of modelsemi-trailer trucks and Matchbox cars at Sunday’s Marathon FFA Alumni Farm Toy Show held at Marathon Area Elementary School.

THE SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS

CONCERT BAND-The Marathon HighSchool concert band trumpeter, HunterReed, plays the “Suite from the Nut-cracker” by Peter Tchaikovsky at Mon-day’s holiday concert held in the schoolauditorium.

DANCE-The Mara-thon High SchoolWinterguard perform-er Deveny Eckardtconcludes a flag anddance version of“Jingle Bell Rock” dur-ing Monday’s annualinstrumental musicdepartment holidayconcert.

JAZZY CHRISTMAS-The MarathonHigh School concert band flautist, Mar-lena Strasser, plays a jazz-inspired ar-rangement of “Home for the Holidays” atMonday’s concert.



Hope for ConnieA charitable event will be

held to support retired Strat-ford School District educator

Dr. Connie Jonett, from 7-10:30p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at CountryAire located at F1312 CTH P inrural Stratford.

The event will raise moneyto help Dr. Jonett cover medi-cal expenses not covered by herhealth insurance. She is in needof a liver transplant due to hav-ing an inherited genetic disor-der called Alpha-1 Anti-TrypsinDeficiency.

There is a cost to attend theevent, and children’s activitieswill be provided throughout theevening. Live music will be pro-vided by “In the Groove.”

Individual people or busi-nesses who are interested in

sponoring this event shouldsend an email to [email protected].

Dr. Jonett has requested thata portion of all proceeds be do-nated to UW Health to furtherresearch Alpha-1 Anti-TrypsinDeficiency.

Listening sessionThe Stratford School District

will hold another building andrenovation referendum listen-ing session from 6-8 p.m. onWednesday, Dec. 16 in the highschool band room.

General building contractorMiron Construction will finetune the building addition ideas

and cost, toward preparing for

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Women’s Club ChristmasTwenty-two members of

the Stratford HomemakersClub attended the annualChristmas party at the Hotel

Charles in Marshfield.They were entertained with

several selections by the mad-rigal singers of the seniorhigh school of Marshfield.

Following the dinner, Mrs.Walter Ulrich and Mrs. K.Graff, who were on the enter-tainment committee, provid-ed a few games and severalprizes were given.

SCHOOL LUNCH

Stratford PublicSchool

Monday, Dec. 14: Chickensoup, PBJs, green beans,

peachesTuesday, Dec. 15: Turkey slices

with gravy, dinner roll, mashedpotatoes, apple slices

Wednesday, Dec.16: Shred-ded pork BBQ on a bun, baked

beans, pearsThursday, Dec. 17: Frenchtoast, sausage, baby carrots,

juice cupFriday, Dec. 18: Chicken fajita,

lettuce, applesauce

Lunches served with milk.

St. Joseph’s SchoolMonday, Dec. 14: Hot hamand cheese wraps, broccoli,

pearsTuesday, Dec. 15: Walking

tacos, corn, peaches Wednesday, Dec. 16: Chicken

patty, green beans, mixed fruitThursday, Dec. 17: Tuna cas-

serole, peas, pineappleFriday, Dec. 18: Hot dogs,baked beans, strawberries

Lunches served with milk

and salad bar.

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Holiday cheerCivic groups and individualssponsored Stratford’s Christ-

mas in the Park at KlemmeReserve Saturday. Above,

attendees enjoyed a horse-drawn carriage ride aroundthe village. At left, six-year-

old Jadyn Weiss of Stratforddecorates Christmas cookies

inside the Klemme Reserveshelter.

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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF?I live between Stratford and Marshfield and Iam a senior at Stratford High School. I havefour other siblings, two older sisters, an olderbrother and a younger brother who is a juniorat Stratford High School.

HOW WAS YOUR CROSS COUNTRY

SEASON? It was really fun to finish off the cross coun-try season down at state even though therewere bad conditions. I just ran the Foot Lock-er race in Kenosha. That was really fun andI trained on my own for the race. I didn’t getmy personal best time, but it was really funalso because it was super muddy with a lotof hills.

ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TOTHE TRACK SEASON?I am training for track now and also crosscountry skiing over the winter. I am lookingforward to competing in the pole vault andthe two-mile run.

IS IT IMPORTANT FOR YOUNG PEO-

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Honor RollStratford Middle School

has announced its honor rollfor the first quarter of the

2015-16 school year.High Honors

Laura Aschenbrenner,Brett Bangart, Noah Barrett,Tyler Bastman, Mei Bean,Riley Bento, Mandy Benz,

Kaley Bloom, Caden Bruese-witz, Hailey Chapel, Yvonne

Christmas in the Park

Curtice, Kaedyn Dahl, Daw-son Danen, Camden Daul,Delaney Dennee, Devin Den-nee, Trevor Dennee, SarahDickinson, Connor Dillinger,Drey Drexler, Gavin Drexler,Cole Ebner, Camryn Fisher,Alexis Folz, Keelai-TamykaGaffney, Logan Gaulke, Ca-den Geiger, Logan Gliniecki,Lydia Golbach, Kaden Gries-mer, Mikayla Gul dan, GracieHauke, Kaden Haupt, DarinHeeg, James Heeg, Oscar



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Stratford Continued from page 16

Heller, Carolynn Hiebl, Dylan Hol-

latz, Emily Hughes, Rose Huther,Elizabeth Jennings, Dillon Kirsch,Gavin Kirsch, Joseph Kloos, HannahKrueger, Ashtyn Kuehn, KassidyLandwehr, Tyler Lappe, MaKennaLeddy, Aurora Leonhard, KambriaLeonhard, Makenna Leonhardt,Kylee Manecke, Sarah Martin, JesseMessmann, Jaykob Mikelson, Bri-anna Moen, Dawson Moen, HeidiMoen, Shawna Moen, Michael Mur-ray, Lauryn Nagel, Ashley O’Neil,Abbygail Oertel, Tanner Oertel,Lexi Ossmann, Devyn Palmer, EricaPapini, Madeline Pavloski, MasonPavloski, Anna Peterson, AlexanderPupp, Teddy Redman, Jessamae Rice,Leslie Rojas, Chandler Schmidt, Me-gan Schmidt, Maria Schoenfuss, Jus-

tin Schoenherr, Kamryn Schueller,Max Schwabe, Zackary Seitz, AbigailSerwe, Kayla Serwe, Alyssa Soczka,Maria Stuttgen, Isaac Thompson,John Treutel, Devin Ulrich, JordanVan Schyndel, Curtis VanHorn, ColeVarsho, Angellia Verdone, AntonioVerdone, Keegan Weiler, AlexanderWeis, Dawson Weisenberger, Megan

Wiese, Allison Wiesman, Lauryn

Wiesman, Tristan Wirkus, TuckerZawislan, Jack Zimmermann, Ga-ret Zoellick, Sarah Zuelke, AllysonZuleger.

Honors

Breanna Ackley, Nicholas Asplund,Lyla Baker, Karson Balz, Benja-min Barten, Riley Bauman, VaughnBreit, Justin Briggs, Andrew Chapel,Devyn Dahlke, Matthew Dickinson,Jaxson Fabry, Jaime Folz, KelseyFons, Luke Gaulke, Shae Gilbertson,Kevin Gollubske, Grace Greenberg,Matthew Hale, Matthew Handrick,Ayden Hauke, Olivia Hoffman, NicoleInfelise, Zachary Johnson, EastonKilty, John Kloos, Cephira Knott,Isaiah Knott, Jaidyn Kopplin, Ni-cole Langreck, Joshua Leick, Elijah

Lucio, Brenna Manecke, Cole Mar-ten, Cameron Mootz, Michael Mootz,Isabelle Multerer, Terin Neuenfeldt,Isaac Nikolai, Autumm Oertel, DanePoppy, Justin Radke, Austyn Rauch,Jeffrey Redman, Samuel Reiff, LauraRobus, Gordon Rundle III, MarahSchillinger, Benjamin Shanks, Ja-cob Skroch, David Tonche, Jacob

Van Schyndel, Max Vanderhoof, Kale

Weisenberger, Jessica Wellner, Park-er West and Courtney Williams.

Holiday basket raffleThe Stratford High School show

choir “Class Act” will travel to Chi-cago in March, and the parents areholding a holiday basket raffle Sun-day, Dec. 13, during the Stratford Mid-dle School holiday concert at 1:30 p.m.and the high school concert at 3 p.m.to help pay for the trip.

Raffle tickets may be purchased atthe door. Some of the basket themesare Mexican night, comfy and cozyand more.

The baskets will be awarded dur-ing the concert, and people need to bepresent to win. Nonperishable food

items will be collected at the door forthe food pantry and concert admis-sion is free.

Deer hide donationsThe Stratford Lions Club is sponsor-

ing a deer hide collection again thisyear.

The collection trailer is located on

the east side of STH 97, one block

south of the stoplights at STH 153.All proceeds from the sale of deerhides will be used for the WisconsinLions Camp, which provides a qualitycamping experience for children with

disabilities.

Winter concertsThe Stratford Middle and High

School choir and band winter con-certs will be held Sunday, Dec. 13, inthe high school gym.

The sixth through eighth grade con-cert will be held at 1:30 p.m. and thehigh school concert will be at 3 p.m.

The Stratford Elementary SchoolChristmas concert will be held Tues-day, Dec. 15, in the elementary schoolgym.

The pre-K through second gradeconcert will be at 9 a.m. with the thirdthrough fifth grade concert at 1:30p.m.

The St. Joseph’s Catholic SchoolChristmas concert will be held at 1p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20.

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VILLAGE OF STRATFORDANNUAL BUDGET HEARING

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2015MUNICIPAL BUILDING

President Suckow called the meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. ThePledge of Allegiance was said. Open meetings requirements weremet.

Roll Call: Trustees present: Todd Belter, Cara Drexler, Dale Heil,Tom Kolb, Scott Pietrowski, Bud Suckow and Dan Wenzel. Staff present: Clerk June Krueger.

Budget Hearing: President Suckow opened the budget hearingat 6:31 p.m. calling for comments or questions regarding the 2016budget.

The budget publication erroneously stated the additional positionfor the public works crew will be full-time. This will be a part-timeposition.

Hearing no further questions or comments, Suckow closed thebudget hearing at 6:32 p.m.

Village board discussion included the 2016 utility and streetproject which will be eligible as a tax incremental financing project.Is there a way for the utility to repay their share of projects through“dividends?” Discussed how using TID financing for utility projectshelps keep the water and electric rates lower to attract newbusinesses and residents.

Motion by Heil/Pietrowski to approve the 2016 budget aspresented. Carried.

Motion by Pietrowski/Kolb to set the village’s 2016 tax levy at$442,059.00. Carried.

Motion by Heil/Belter to adjourn. Carried (6:36 p.m.).Submitted by:June Krueger, Clerk

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There are high expectations for theStratford varsity wrestling team thisseason, which returns four individ-ual state champions and just missedqualifying for state as a team.

Stratford coach Joe Schwabe’s four

returning state champions are soph-omore A.J. Schoenfuss, wrestling at106 pounds last season, sophomoreJeremy Schoenherr at 113, juniorMason Kauffman at 126 and juniorKamren Bornbach at 182.

Wiwrestling.com recently rankedthe top 10 wrestlers in each classfor all divisions combined. MasonKauffman is the No. 5 wrestler andBornbach the No. 7 ranked wrestlerin the junior class. Schoenherr isranked No. 2 and Schoenfuss No. 7in the sophomore class. Mace Kiltyis No. 7 in the freshman class, butshe will have a tough time crackingthe starting lineup considering theTigers return state champions at 106and 113 pounds.

The wrestling website also has

Stratford ranked No. 3 in Division3 in its preseason rankings, behindCashton at No. 2 and Coleman as thetop team. Stratford lost to Coleman,35-31, in the Amherst team sectionalchampionship last season, and alsowas defeated by Coleman, 42-40, inthe 2014 Manawa team sectionalsemifinals. So Coleman hasowned Stratford’s numberso far, but the Tigers arehoping to reverse that trend

this season.“Last year we had a great

season by winning the over-all points championship atthe Bi-State Classic in LaCrosse, and then winningthe Marawood Conferencechampionship,” Schwabesaid. “We did lose a veryclose team sectional dual toColeman, but we definitelyclosed the gap from the previousyear. Following that up with havingeight kids wrestle at the individualstate championships in Madison wasgreat, and with four of them winningtitles, there’s not much more a coachcould ask from his kids. Now we needto use that success to build on this

season, as we all have one team goal

and we are working hard to reachthat goal.”

Stratford also returns three se-niors in three-time state qualifierand medalist Anthony Gliniecki,two-time state qualifier and medalistSam Wenzel and Kyle Giebel. Sopho-more Tyson Kaufmann is a returning

state qualifier at 285 pounds.There are a few Strat-

ford wrestlers who are goodenough to qualify for the

state individual wrestlingchampionships this sea-son, but they may not evenearn a starting varsity spot.Schwabe has a plan for man-aging his wrestlers.

“We have added sometough competition and weface several ranked Division1 and 2 schools this year,” hesaid. “We are hoping those

will prepare us for trying to win ourninth conference title since 2000, butwe know there will be some greatwrestlers in the Marawood that willbe ready to challenge us head-to-head. We attend several extra tour-naments throughout the season byentering a varsity reserves team to

contend with other varsity wrestling

squads. By doing this, those kids thatare certainly good enough to com-pete at the varsity level, but just maynot have a spot yet, will still get greatcompetition so they can also contin-ue to improve.”

The Stratford wrestling programcontinues to grow with the numberof athletes out for wrestling increas-ing every season. It helps that theTigers have one of the best wrestlingpractice facilities, the Fanetti Wres-

tling Center, in the state.Schwabe spoke about his wrestlers’

different skill sets that make them sodominant on the mat.

“Each kid has their own style andmoves of preference, which is howwe train,” he said. “We teach thewhole gammet and let the kids pickout what they individually preferbecause body styles, strengths andweaknesses will all play out intowhat moves for each kid to focus on.We currently have 32 kids on ourhigh school team, which is not onlya tribute to them, but to our assis-tant coaches, middle school programand those involved in the youth pro-gram.”

Team schedule on page 9

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SPORTS PREVIEW FEATURING BOYS AN D GIRLS BASKETBALL AN D WRESTLING TE AM S FROM A TH EN S, EDGAR, MARATHON AN D S TR AT FO RD

A SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT TO THE RECORD-REVIEW

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015 / TWELVE PAGES

ATHENS ATHLETICS ON PAGES 2, 6 & 10

MARATHON PREVIEWS ON PAGES 4, 5 & 12

EDGAR PREVIEWS ON PAGES 3, 7, & 11

STRATFORD COVERAGE CONTINUES ON PAGES 8 & 9.

STRATFORD WRESTLING- The 2015-16 Stratford High School wrestling team is pictured above. The Tigers are coached by Joe Schwabe. Assistant coaches are MarkMarquardt and Kane Krummel, and volunteer assistant coaches are Roland Kauffman, Rick Kitchner, Casey Williams and Daryl Lachen.

Tigers ready to take the next step

Stratford wants toavenge sectionaltitle team defeat

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ATHENS

Dale Westfall is aprideful Athens HighSchool wrestling alumwho is rebuilding asuccessful programagain, after itexperienced some tough

years following the retirement ofHall of Fame coach Jerry Wagner inthe mid 1990s.

Wagner helped Westfall, a 1984Athens High School graduate

and successful wrestler given thenickname Moose while playinghigh schoolfootball, gain hisfirst wrestlingcoaching job atWild Rose HighSchool.

“He (Wagner)has always offeredhis help; he hasdefinitely helpedme out a lot,”Westfall said.

Westfall leanedon his former high

school coach anytime he neededadvice during his 17 combinedyears as an assistant and head

varsity wrestling coach in WildRose. Westfall now enters his eighthyear coaching the Athens varsitywrestling team.

“It was definitely a challengewhen I arrived back here to coach,”Westfall said. “I don’t think peoplerealized how far off the program was

to being successful.”Athens should be able to fill most of

the starting weights this season. TheBluejays have three top returnersback: Juniors Austin Engel and NateMorse, and sophomore MarshallWestfall. Morse wrestled at 130 lastyear, Engel, 145, and Westfall, 168.All three were Marawood Conferencechampions and sectional qualifiersfrom last year.

Westfall noted that Morse is adifficult competitor to wrestle, andhe comes up with different strategies

while he is wrestling. Engel is a verystrong technical wrestler who isgood on his feet, while Westfall isalso a good technical wrestler wholikes to challenge good competition.

Besides those three, otherreturning letterwinners includesenior Tanner Frahm, junior JordanZinkowich, and sophomores KlayEllenbecker, Dakota Venzke, KevinAlbrecht and Tyson Sommer.

The Athens team goals thisseason are to finish in the top ofthe conference and have as many

wrestlers advance to the statechampionships as possible.

The Bluejays Hall of Fameceremony will be held before thehome match against Auburndale thisseason. Last year Wagner and KraigUnderwood were the Hall of Fame’sfirst inductees, as Underwood isthe only four-time state championin Athens High School’s wrestlinghistory. The inductee this year willbe the late Pat Switlick, who wasthe first state champion in Athens’school history.

BLUEJAY GRAPPLERS- The Athens High School 2015-16 varsity wrestling team is pictured above. The Bluejays are coachedby Dale Westfall, who is assisted by Corey Westfall and Todd Diethelm.

Athens aims for top of MarawoodBluejays shouldbe close to fillingall weight classes

Dec. 11 vs. PhillipsDec. 17 @ AbbotsfordDec. 11 @ PhillipsDec. 21 @ Northland PinesDec. 29-30 @ Marathon Holiday TourneyJan. 5 vs. PrenticeJan. 8 @ Edgar

Jan. 14 @ Rib LakeJan. 19 vs. ChequamegonJan. 22 @ PhillipsJan. 25 vs. StratfordJan. 28 vs. AbbotsfordFeb. 5 @ PrenticeFeb. 11 vs. EdgarFeb. 16 vs. AuburndaleFeb. 18 Girls 3rd-7th crossover challenge @ TBAFeb. 20 Girls 1st and 2nd crossover challenge

@ EdgarFeb. 23 WIAA Div. 5 regional quarterfinal, team & location TBAFeb. 26 WIAA Div. 5 regional semifinal, team & location TBAFeb. 27 WIAA Div. 5 regional final, team & location TBAMarch 3 WIAA Div. 5 sectional semifinal @ Waupaca, team TBAMarch 5 WIAA Div. 5 sectional final

@ Oconto Falls, team TBAMarch 10-12 WIAA Div. 5 state

championship at Resch Center, Green Bay

Tip off is 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.Bold print indicates home contest.

ATHENS GIRLS BASKETBALL

2015-16 SCHEDULEDec. 10 @ PittsvilleDec. 12 10 a.m. @ WabenoDec. 15 @ ChequamegonDec. 29-30 Bi-State Tournament @ La CrosseJan. 5 @ PhillipsJan. 7 vs. StratfordJan. 9 9:30 a.m. @ NeillsvilleJan. 14 vs. Auburndale

Jan. 16 9:30 a.m. @ Ladysmith tourneyJan. 21 vs. EdgarJan. 28 @ MarathonJan. 30 TBA Marawood Conference meet @ PittsvilleFeb. 2 @ TomahawkFeb. 13 TBA WIAA Div. 3 regional @ EdgarFeb. 20 TBA WIAA Div. 3 sectional @ ShawanoFeb. 25-27 TBA WIAA Div. 3 state tournament @ Kohl Center, Madison

Start time is 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.Bold print indicates home contest.

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This will be a rebuilding seasonfor the Edgar varsity wrestling team,after the Wildcats lost six wrestlersto graduation and return plenty ofyoung underclassmen.

Kevin Koch enters his seventh sea-son as head coach of Edgar’s wres-

tling team. His team makeup this year will consist oftwo juniors, eight sophomores and seven freshmen.His program normally averages around 20 boys outfor wrestling each season.

“We have a lot of good incom-ing wrestlers, but we realize this

is a rebuilding year for us, andwe know it and are accepting ofit,” Koch said. “Our wrestlers dowork hard and our type of wres-tling keeps us competitive.”

The young wrestlers Edgardoes have are solid competitors,beginning with junior Alex Le-manski, who was a state qualifierat 152 pounds last year.

Edgar has a nucleus of talentedsophomores, including Bryce Im-

hoff, Colton Heil, Kade Schraufnagel, Cade Littletonand Reece Heidmann. Will Raatz is a good freshmannewcomer to the program.

Koch said the Marawood Conference champion-ship supremacy between Edgar and Stratford “hasrun in peaks and valleys” through the years. A fewyears ago Edgar was on top of the conference, and

now Stratford has taken over that spot and is theheavy favorite to win the conference championshipthis season.

Koch said it’s great that an area team like Strat-

ford is very good in wrestling, because they makethe rest of the local teams better.

“Success breeds success, and Stratford’s successis good for our rivalry,” he said.

EDGAR

WILDCATS- The 2015-16 Edgar High School wrestling team is pictured above. The Wildcats are coached byKevin Koch, who is assisted by Andrew Lukasko, David Frahm, Greg Heiden and Andy Borchardt.

Wildcats look to rebuild this seasonEdgar has a young, yettalented squad of wrestlerswho are ready to compete

Dec. 17 6:00 p.m. vs. PhillipsDec. 18 7:30 p.m. vs. ChequamegonDec. 29-30 8:30 a.m. @ Northern Exposure

Tournament in MerrillJan. 5 @ StratfordJan. 7 @ AuburndaleJan. 9 9 a.m. @ Oconto Falls InviteJan. 14 vs. MarathonJan. 16 9:30 a.m. @ Chippewa Falls InviteJan. 21 @ AthensJan. 22 5 p.m. Dual Tournament @ homeJan. 26 vs. SpencerJan. 28 vs. PittsvilleJan. 30 10:30 a.m. Marawood Conference meet @ PittsvilleFeb. 13 TBA WIAA Div. 3 home regionalFeb. 16 6 p.m. WIAA Div. 3 team

sectional @ Shawano

Feb. 20 TBA WIAA Div. 3 sectional hosted by Bonduel @ ShawanoFeb. 25-26 TBA WIAA Div. 3 state tournament @ Kohl Center, MadisonMarch 4 TBA WIAA Div. 3 state team tournament @ UW-Madison fieldhouse

Start time is 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Bold print indicates home contest.

EDGAR WRESTLING

2015-16 SCHEDULE

EDGAR GIRLS BASKETBALL 2015-16 SCHEDULE

Dec. 11 vs. Rib Lake

Dec. 14 vs. MarathonDec. 17 @ ChequamegonDec. 22 vs. PhillipsDec. 29 5:45 p.m. vs. ColbyJan. 5 @ AbbotsfordJan. 8 vs. AthensJan. 15 6 p.m. vs. PrenticeJan. 18 7:30 p.m. @ Owen-WitheeJan. 22 @ Rib LakeJan. 26 @ MarathonJan. 29 7:30 p.m. vs. ChequamegonFeb. 2 @ ThorpFeb. 5 6 p.m. @ PhillipsFeb. 11 @ AthensFeb. 16 vs. AbbotsfordFeb. 19 Girls 3rd-7th crossover challenge @ TBA

Feb. 20 1 p.m. Girls 1st and 2nd crossover

challenge @ TBAFeb. 23 7 p.m. WIAA Div. 4 regional quarterfinal, team & location TBAFeb. 26 7 p.m. WIAA Div. 4 regional semifinal, team & location TBAFeb. 27 TBA WIAA Div. 4 regional final, team & location TBAMarch 3 7 p.m. WIAA Div. 4 sectional semifinal @ Wausau West, team TBAMarch 5 TBA WIAA Div. 4 sectional final

@ Waupaca, team TBAMarch 10-12 TBA WIAA Div. 4 state championship at Resch Center, Green Bay

Tip off is 7:15 p.m. unless otherwise noted.


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MARATHON

An old face,Kraig Under-wood, hasreturned toco-coach Mara-thon’s varsity

wrestling team with Darin Seu-bert.

Underwood was the headcoach for a few years whenMarathon first started its wres-tling program, and after taking

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Seubert is elated to have Un-

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very excited to have him back.”Marathon has 12 varsity

wrestlers this season, which isclose to the average amount ofhigh school boys the programhas out each season.

Senior heavyweight JacobMohr is the team’s top returnerthis season, after he won theMarawood Conference and be-came regional champion whoqualified for sectional competi-tion last season.

“Jacob’s biggest detriment iskeeping his weight down to 285pounds, but he is a solid andsmart wrestler who is good onhis feet and isn’t afraid to takechances,” Seubert said.

Other returning wrestlersthis season include seniorHunter Reed at 126 pounds lastseason, senior Joseph Sedivy at

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than Franke at 113, freshmanDane Klinger at 106 and fresh-man Addison Sedivy at 145.

Seubert has simple and at-tainable goals for the Marathonwrestling team as a whole.

“We are not looking to breakrecords; we just want to im-prove from now until the endof the season,” he said. “Matchwins are hard to come by in th eMarawood Conference.”

RED RAIDER WRESTLING- The 2015-16 Marathon High School wrestling team is pictured above. The Red Raiders are coached by

Darin Seubert and Kraig Underwood.

Underwood back with MarathonFour-time statechamp will helpSeubert coach

MARATHON WRESTLING

2015-16 SCHEDULE

Dec. 10 vs. Auburndale

Dec. 12 9:30 a.m. @ BrillionDec. 17 6 p.m. @ Edgar triple dualDec. 19 TBD @ Tomahawk InviteJan. 2 9:30 a.m. @ Manawa InviteJan. 7 @ PittsvilleJan. 9 8 a.m. @ Merrill TournamentJan. 14 @ EdgarJan. 21 @ StratfordJan. 28 vs. Athens

Jan. 30 TBD Marawood Conference meet @ PittsvilleFeb. 9 vs. Amherst

Feb. 13 TBA WIAA Div. 3 regional @ EdgarFeb. 16 TBA WIAA Div. 3 team

sectional @ Shawano

Feb. 20 TBA WIAA Div. 3 sectional hosted by Bonduel @ ShawanoFeb. 25-27 TBA WIAA Div. 3 state tournament @ Kohl Center, MadisonMarch 4-5 TBA WIAA Div. 3 state team tournament @ Kohl Center, Madison


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With winning comeshigh expectations, andthat is certainly the casefor the Marathon varsi-ty girls basketball teamthat returns three start-

ing players from last season’s MarawoodConference champion and Division 4state semifinalist team.

The Red Raiders, coached by JeffSchneider, lost to Fall Creek, 56-51, inthe state semifinal game last season andfinished with a 25-2 overall record. Mara-thon’s only other defeat was to Auburn-dale during the regular season.

Marathon is sureto be ranked high tobegin this season,but Schneider won’tbe paying attentionto that.

“I’m not sure onthe ranking and I re-ally don’t care aboutthem,” he said.“They don’t meananything when itcomes to playing ourtough conferenceschedule and then

on the tournament trail. The kids knowthere are high expectations for this sea-son but they love the situation that theyare in.

“We talk a lot about really focusing onthe things we can control like reboundsand free throws and not on the outcomeor result. We have goals for each gameon the things we can control and go fromthere. If we play to the standard or highlevel we have set for ourselves, we saythen wins and losses will take care ofthemselves.”

Marathon’s returning starting play-ers are five-foot, eight-inches tall Mor-gan Rachu, a first-team all-MarawoodSouth Conference guard who averaged11 points, six rebounds and three assistslast season.

“Morgan plays with an unbelieveableintensity and motor,” Schneider said.“She has the ability to beat pressure by

herself and then finish at the rim or find

the open person. She can defend anyonefrom quick guards to six feet or biggerposts. She is a super teammate and lead-er.”

Senior five-foot, nine-inch guard Nata-sha Hanke also returns. She was second-team all-conference last season.

“Natasha has worked hard on her skillset, making her a player that can drivethe ball with a finish or dish, and she isalso an excellent perimeter shooter fromboth the three-point range and off thedribble,” Schneider said. “She has a fan-tastic work ethic and drive to get betterall the time.”

Five-foot, 10-inch senior forward Ol-ivia Meurette is the third returningstarter, and she was an honorable men-tion all-conference player who averaged

eight points and six rebounds last year.“Olivia shows a great motor and ag-

gressiveness on both the offensive and

defensive boards,” Schneider said. “She

has the ability to both drive the ball onedribble away from the basket, and shootthe perimeter shot out to the three-pointarea. She is a great communicator andleader.”

Senior five-foot, seven-inch guard Ju-lia Anderson, an honorable mention all-conference player last season, will prob-ably be the team’s fourth starter thisseason. She averaged eight points andthree assists last year.

“Julia does so many things reallywell,” Schneider said. “She shoots thethree-pointer, can pull up off the dribbleand has excellent vision, making her oneof the best passers in our league. Sheplays harder than anybody and gets herteammates to do the same. She is a fan-tastic leader and talker.”

Either five-foot, three-inch seniorguard Jayci Blume or five-foot, 10-inch

junior Amanda Kind will be the team’s

fifth starting player this season.

“Jayci is really good with the ball andgetting to the rim,” Schneider said. “Herperimeter shot is becoming more con-sistent and she plays excellent on-balldefense. Amanda is really solid on theoffensive and defensive boards. She hasscoring potential near the rim and alsoon the perimeter.”

Other team members who will playbig roles off the bench are senior guardsAshley Denfeld and Alison Stieber, ju-nior guard Rhiana Sweno, and sopho-more guards Alysha Stieber and BrookeBalz.

Schneider outlined this team’s goalsthis season, “We want to play most to-gether as a team throughout the season,improve over the course of the seasonand enjoy the journey without being

consumed by the destination.”

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MARATHON BASKETBALL- The 2015-16 Marathon High School girls basketball team is pictured above. The Red Raiders arecoached by Jeff Schneider.

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ATHENS

Travis Shupebrings a vastknowledge ofvarious coachingexperience to theAthens girls bas-

ketball program this season.Shupe, a 2002 graduate of

Auburndale High School, takesover a varsity Bluejays teamthat returns mostly young play-ers with very little experience

from last year’s MarawoodNorth Con-f e r e n c echampionteam.

“ W h i l eplaying forTim Ander-son, who isthe second-winningestcoach inWisconsinhigh schoolbasketballhistory, I

picked up on his strategies andcalm demeanor on the side-lines,” Shupe said.

He spent eight years as thefreshman and junior varsityboys basketball coach at Wis-consin Rapids Assumption,was the junior varsity girls bas-ketball coach at Winona CotterHigh School in Winona, Minn.,for one year and the junior var-sity girls basketball coach at

Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau HighSchool for three years.

Shupe said Athens will runformer NBA and Europeancoach Mike D’Antonio’s swingoffense. He wants the Bluejaysto be a running team that shootsat least 60 shots each game.

On defense, Shupe will haveAthens running current TexasUniversity and former Vir-ginia Commonwealth Univer-sity coach Shakah Smart’s full-court press zone defense.

Shupe is pleased the team hasembraced his offensive and de-

fensive philosophies, and theplayers have been working hardat conditioning, lifting weightsand practicing shooting the bas-ketball.

Athens is off to a good startthis season after easily beatingTomahawk at home. The team

did stumble against traditionalpowerhouse Wausau NewmanCatholic, but was 1-1 as of Dec.1.


ATHENS HOOPS- The 2015-16 Athens High School girls basketball team is pictured above. The Bluejays are coached by Travis Shupe.His assistant coach is Danielle Diedrich.

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EDGAR

A sour taste remains in the mouths ofEdgar’s varsity girls basketball players,following the team’s missed chances atthe end of last year’s regular season toshare the Marawood North Conferencechampionship with Athens.

Instead, the Wildcats suffered two straight defeats bya combined three points in those games to finish theregular season and let the Bluejays capture the confer-ence title outright.

Edgar lost to Athens, 45-43, and then closed out theregular season with a 45-44 defeat to Abbotsford. Edgartied with Abbotsford for second place in the conferencewith 9-3 records, behind 10-2 Athens.

Edgar coach Betty Urmanski,now in her 13th year coaching thegirls varsity team, and her expe-rienced returning players aren’tabout to let the same thing happento them this season.

“We are a hungry team and wewant to create an environment thatpromotes constant competitive-ness on the court, because we feltwe didn’t have that during some ofour big games at the end of last sea-son,” Urmanski said.

The Wildcats are loaded withtalent and ready to take that next step of winning theMarawood North. Urmanski returns her three leadingscorers from last year’s team. Senior Tianna Borchardtaveraged 18 points per game last season, and she wassecond in scoring in the Marawood North behind Kyn-

caide Diedrich of Athens, who has since graduated.For her efforts, Borchardt was a unanimous first-teamall-Marawood North Conference selection last season.

Junior Macey Wirkus joined Borchardt on the con-ference’s first team last year. Wirkus was second on Ed-gar’s team in scoring last season by averaging 11 pointsper game. She led last year’s team with 69 rebounds,with Borchardt close behind with 61. Wirkus also ledthe team in steals by averaging four per game.

Senior Dana Heidmann was third on last year’s teamin scoring by averaging eight points per game, earn-ing her honorable mention all-conference. Other play-ers returning with experience include seniors Court-ney Mueller and Tiana Weatherby, along with juniorsRachel Heiden, Alexandria McKibben and LindseySchneeberger.

Urmanski called Schneeberger the “spark plug”on the team, and she said Weatherby is an extremelyquick player who has improved on her defensive rota-tions. Urmanski added that Heiden is a point guardwith a nice outside shot, and McKibben is a five-foot,nine-inch post player who plays well with her back tothe basket.

This year’s team may have lots of experienced play-ers returning, but Urmanski is concerned with her

team’s overall lack of height with Borchardt being theteam’s tallest player at five-feet, 10-inches tall. That’swhy the team is focusing more on its defense in prac-tices.

“I have been preaching to the girls that they need tohelp double down when the opposing team’s player hasthe basket in the post,” Urmanski said.


WILDCAT HOOPS- The 2015-16 Edgar High School girls basketball team is pictured above. The Wildcats arecoached by Betty Urmanski. She is assisted by Terry Hoesly, Gary Brewster and Angela Totzke.

Wildcats hungry for the crownEdgar wants to winconference title this year

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WILDCAT HOOPS- Edgar junior Rachel Heiden guards a Stratford player duringthe team’s home defeat to the Tigers this season. PHOTO BY LAURA PETERSON

EDGAR HOOPS- Wildcats junior Alexandria McKibben guards a Tigers player dur-ing Edgar’s early-season loss to Stratford this season. PHOTO BY LAURA PETERSON



Stratford’svarsity girlsb a s k e t b a l lteam is hop-ing to improveupon its .500record last

season in the tough and raggedMarawood South Conferencewith a top three finish this year.

Last season the Tigers placedfourth in the conference witha 6-6 record, and were15-9 overall after losing

to Auburndale, 47-31, inthe Division 4 regionalfinal.

Winning doesn’tcome easy in the Mara-wood South, in whichWisconsin Rapids As-sumption was the staterunner-up in Division5 last year, and confer-ence champion Mara-thon lost in a Division4 state semifinal.

Stratford does return sometalented players who will helpthe Tigers battle with those topteams for Marawood supremacy.Senior five-foot, five-inch pointguard Macie Frueh is back as

a four-year varsity player whowas the team’s leading three-point shooter last season. Sheaveraged 12.5 points per gamelast year and made second-teamall-conference.

Savannah Schillinger, a se-nior six foot seven inch pointguard, is back after she led theTigers in steals last season. Sheaveraged 6.3 points per gameand received honorable men-tion all-conference.

Junior Sammy Griesbach isa five-foot, seven-inch slasheron offense and a top defenderon defense. She is off to a goodstart this season after she ledthe Tigers in scoring during a

win against Edgar. She aver-aged 3.8 points per game last

season.Senior Tianna Hughes is out

for the year after she suffered aseason-ending knee injury dur-ing the volleyball season.

Top newcomers who playedduring last year’s playoff runare sophomore five-foot, nine-inch post player Kaylee Hollatzand five foot four inch sopho-more guard Taya Nett. Juniorfive-foot, nine-inch post player

Olivia Burrows isanother promising

player on varsity thisseason.

Stratford coachTammie Christopher-son, now in her thirdyear coaching the Ti-gers, described herteam’s strengths andweaknesses.

“Our strengths arethat we are a scrappydetermined teamwith a strong core of

players,” she said. “Our playersare versatile and we are lookingto push the tempo of the game.”

There are some questionmarks surrounding this year’steam.

“We have a very young andinexperienced bench, so wewill be calling on sophomoresto fill the roles of seniors lostdue to injury and not playing,”Christopherson said. “This is atalented group of young ladiesthat will challenge for one ofthe top three spots in the confer-ence. They work hard and theydon’t make excuses. I am ex-cited to see their progress andgrowth throughout the season.”

Stratford is off to a good startthis season and was still unde-feated at 3-0 as of Dec. 1, withwins against Tomah, Edgar andColby.

Frueh, Griesbach and Schil-

linger have come up big for theTigers in their early wins.

Plenty of optimism this seasonStratford has the talent to be oneof top teams in Marawood South


STRATFORD

STRATFORD HOOPS- The 2015-16 Stratford High School girls basketball team is pictured above.The Tigers are coached by Tammie Christopherson. Her assistants are Don Spindler and Kellen Kafka.

Dec. 11 @ AuburndaleDec. 15 7:30 p.m. vs. Rib LakeDec. 21 5:45 p.m. vs. AssumptionDec. 28 6 p.m. @ LakelandDec. 29 6 p.m. @ LakelandJan. 5 @ PittsvilleJan. 8 vs. MarathonJan. 15 7:30 p.m. vs. Northland LutheranJan. 19 vs. Newman CatholicJan. 22 vs. AuburndaleJan. 25 @ AthensJan. 28 7:30 p.m. @ GreenwoodFeb. 2 @ AssumptionFeb. 5 vs. PittsvilleFeb. 9 7:30 p.m. @ Iola-ScandinaviaFeb. 11 @ MarathonFeb. 19 Girls 3rd-7th crossover

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Stratford’s varsity boys basket-ball team will need to outsmart andoutwork its competition this sea-son, considering the Tigers don’thave much height or quickness.

Curt Schmidt enters his 16thseason at the helm with an overall

record of 262-115. His tallest player is six-feet, four-inches tall, and the Tigers are a guard-heavy team.Schmidt is adjusting his team’s strategies to theirlack of height.

“We will run our base motionoffense that these kids know

well and have been running foryears,” he said. “However, we areteaching some variations that fitour kids’ strengths. On defense,we will get back to our stapleswith more man-to-man defensewith more three-quarter pres-sure packages.”

Stratford is hoping to improveon its fifth-place finish in theMarawood South Conference lastseason with a 5-7 record.

The team’s top returning players are senior six-foot, one-inch swing man Derrick Schmidt, seniorfive-foot, 10-inch point guard Nick Stoflet, senior six-foot guard Ethan Nagel and senior five-foot, 11-inchguard Drew Oertel.

Schmidt de-scribed the skill

sets that his top re-turning players pos-sess.

“Stoflet is a goodleader and is strongwith the ball,” hesaid. “Schmidt willbe able to play inand out and he givesus versatility. Ethanis a very good shoot-er and finisher, andOertel has a strongwork ethic and hefinishes around thebasket well.”

Top newcomers to this year’s varsity team are se-nior five-foot, 11-inch post player Jaren Fischer, ju-

nior five-foot, 10-inchguard Cole Hoffman, junior six-foot, four-inch post player Tan-ner Weinfurter, juniorfive-foot, eight-inchguard Lucas Heid-mann, junior five-foot,nine-inch guard DylanGriepentrog, juniorfive-foot, nine-inchguard Dylan Pascheland sophomore six-foot guard BrendenFecker.

“I have a hard work-ing team withoutmuch height, but wewill see what hap-

pens,” Schmidt said. “We don’t have a lot of quick-ness either, so we are going to have to play smart,play hard and play together.”

STRATFORD

TIGERS- The 2015-16 Stratford High School boys basketball team is coached by Curt Schmidt. He is assisted byBill Knetter and Chris Fischer.

Height won’t deter the Tigers from winsStratford will need to playdefense a little differentlywith guard-oriented team

Dec. 12 9:30 a.m. @ D.C. Everest InviteDec. 22 vs. Stevens Point AreaDec. 29-30 9:30 a.m. @ Bi-State Classic, HolmenJan. 5 vs. EdgarJan. 7 @ AthensJan. 9 10:30 a.m. @ D.C. Everest InviteJan. 14 vs. PittsvilleJan. 21 vs. MarathonJan. 23 9:30 a.m. @ Portage InviteJan. 28 @ AuburndaleJan. 30 10:30 a.m. Marawood Conference meet @ PittsvilleFeb. 4 vs. NekoosaFeb. 13 TBA WIAA Div. 3 regional @ TBDFeb. 16 TBA WIAA Div. 3 team

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ATHENS

New Athens varsity boys basketballco-coaches Sam Baum and Aaron Ellen-becker are giving players more freedomthis season to use their instincts and highbasketball intelligence on the court.

The coaches have tweaked the motionoffense sets ran last season and are giving players theability to react to game situations, for example, set abackscreen on offense and then roll down to the basket.

“Our team also has a lot of speed, so we want to getout and run with the basketball,” Baum said.

Coaches are preaching to theirplayers the importance of execut-

ing a help defense.Athens returns a bunch of top

players from last year’s team thatfinished 5-14. That list includessenior point guard Justin Kelly,senior point guard and small for-ward Lane Nicholds, junior smallforward Ben Weller, six-foot, sev-en-inch junior center JamesonBrooks, junior shooting guard andsmall forward Sawyer Thurs, ju-nior shooting guard and smallforward Edgar Bonilla and sopho-

more point guard Cade Ellenbecker.There are 26 boys out for high school basketball this

season, of which Baum said is good even though mostof them are freshmen and sophomores.

Ellenbecker had been the junior varsity basketballcoach. Baum was working as a long-term substitute

physical education teacher in Ath-ens, and when he was offered theco-head coaching job, being aroundthe high school students made it aneasy decision for him to take the

job.“The Athens student athletes

have a lot of energy, and they havebeen working really hard in prac-tice,” Baum said. “The communityhas been really supportive of thestudent athletes and they have ac-cepted me with open arms.”

ATHENS BASKETBALL- The 2015-16 Athens High School boys basketball team is pictured above. The Bluejayshave co-coaches, Sam Baum and Aaron Ellenbecker.

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Edgar’s var-sity boys bas-ketball team istired of takingsecond place,and is motivat-ed to win the

Marawood North Conferencetitle this season.

Last year, the Wildcats fin-ished the season just behind

conference champion Phillips.With plenty of experience re-turning, third-year head coachDave Huss wants to revere theteam’s fortunes this year.

“ B r i n g -ing back alot of ex-periencedplayers isc er ta i n l yan advan-tage forus in thebeginningof this sea-son,” Husssaid. “Weexpect to

win theconference championship thisyear and have a great season.”

Edgar returns senior for-wards Matt Urmanski andAustin Borchardt, who wereboth second-team all-MarawoodNorth Conference performerslast season. The Wildcats alsoreturn junior guard Alec Haf-ferman, who was honorablemention all-conference lastyear.

Other top returning playerswho should be in the startinglineup are senior guard Maver-ick Mueller and junior guardTyler Engel. Foreign exchangestudent Lucas Deschiens, a tall

center from France, should givethe team a boost this seasoneven though he has raw basket-

ball skills.Players filling out the remain-

ing varsity roster are seniorforwards Ben Lepak, HunterEllenbecker and Xavier Hackel;

junior guards Shawn Bunkel-man and Mason Guralski; andsophomore guard Josh Burris.

Edgar’s team is working onits spacing on offense in prac-tice, because Huss thought hisplayers were too “robotic” lastseason in their offensive sets.

The Wildcats began the sea-son out slow with a loss toAlmond-Bancroft, but the sea-son is early and there is plentyof time to improve. Edgar willfocus on winning all its Mara-

wood North Conference gamesto ensure they win the title.

Edgar boasts experienced teamWildcats believethey can garnerconference title

EDGAR

EDGAR HOOPS- The 2015-16 Edgar High School boys basketball team is pictured above. The Wildcats are coached by David Huss.

Dec. 11 7:30 p.m. @ Owen-WitheeDec. 15 7:30 p.m. vs. Iola-ScandinaviaDec. 18 @ ChequamegonDec. 22 6 p.m. vs. PhillipsDec. 29 7:30 p.m. vs. ColbyJan. 4 @ StratfordJan. 7 @ AbbotsfordJan. 12 vs. AthensJan. 15 vs. PrenticeJan. 19 vs. MarathonJan. 26 @ Rib LakeJan. 29 6 p.m. vs. ChequamegonFeb. 5 7:45 p.m. @ PhillipsFeb. 9 vs. AbbotsfordFeb. 12 @ AthensFeb. 13 @ ColfaxFeb. 18 @ Prentice

Feb. 22 vs. Rib LakeFeb. 25 Boys 3rd-7th crossoverchallenge @ home

Feb. 27 1 p.m. Boys 1st and 2nd crossoverchallenge @ Abbotsford

March 1 7 p.m. WIAA Div. 4 regionalquarterfinal, team & location TBA

March 4 7 p.m. WIAA Div. 4 regional semi-final, team & location TBAMarch 5 TBA WIAA Div. 4 regional final, team & location TBAMarch 10 7 p.m. WIAA Div. 4 sectional quarterfinal @ D.C. Everest, team TBAMarch 12 TBA WIAA Div. 4 sectional final @ Appleton East, team TBAMarch 17-19 TBA WIAA Div. 4 state



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Marathon’s varsityboys basketball teammay return several in-experienced playersfrom a one-loss teamlast year, but nonethe-

less, the Red Raiders should be solidagain this season.

The Red Raiders went unbeaten in

the Marawood Conferencelast season, but they sufferedtheir lone defeat at the handsof Auburndale in the region-al championship game. Thatheartbreaking defeat is behindthem now, and with a new sea-

son brings a fresh start.Senior Xavier Lechleitneris a four-year starting player,and senior Preston Wirkusis a returning two-time all-Marawood Conference player.Senior Ryan Gassner was theteam’s sixth man last season. The rest ofthe team is relatively inexperienced at

the varsity level.“I think we have some talent,

but we need to get the youngerplayers up to speed with thevarsity level,” said varsity headcoach Adam Jacobson.

Other returning players who

should see a lot of varsity play-ing time include senior guardKarter Underwood, junior for-ward Bryce Seubert, sopho-more forward Nathan Stoffeland sophomore guard DonovanFree.

Rounding out this year’s varsity teamare seniors Spencer Krautkramer, Car-

son Seehafer, Ben Martin and Collin Vet-ter, and junior Hunter Bannon.

The team’s goals are to win the confer-ence again and make a deep run into theplayoffs.

“Our team has nice length and goodleadership,” Jacobson said. “You always

worry about having an inexperiencedteam, but our success will depend onhow consistent our play is this season.”

RAIDER HOOPS- The 2015-16 Marathon High School boys basketball team is pictured above. The Raiders are coached by Adam Jacobson, who is assisted by Phil Seu-bert, Claude Seubert and Gary Lechleitner.

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2015-16 SCHEDULE

Dec. 11 @ PittsvilleDec. 14 7:30 p.m. vs. SpencerDec. 18 vs. Northland LutheranDec. 22 @ Newman CatholicDec. 29-30 TBD Marathon Holiday TourneyJan. 7 vs. AuburndaleJan. 12 @ Stratford

Jan. 15 @ AssumptionJan. 19 @ EdgarJan. 21 vs. PittsvilleJan. 25 7:30 p.m. @ ColbyJan. 29 @ Northland LutheranFeb. 4 vs. Newman CatholicFeb. 9 @ AuburndaleFeb. 12 vs. StratfordFeb. 13 3 p.m. @ Marshfield ColumbusFeb. 18 vs. AssumptionFeb. 22 vs. Chippewa Falls McDonell Feb. 25 Boys 3rd-7th crossover

challenge @ TBAFeb. 27 1 p.m. Boys 1st and 2nd crossover

challenge @ AbbotsfordMarch 1 TBA WIAA Div. 4 regional quarterfinal, team & location TBAMarch 4 TBA WIAA Div. 4 regional semi-final, team & location TBAMarch 5 TBA WIAA Div. 4 regional

final, team & location TBAMarch 10 TBA WIAA Div. 4 sectional semifinal @ D.C. Everest, team TBAMarch 12 TBA WIAA Div. 4 sectional final

@ Appleton East, team TBAMarch 17-19 TBA WIAA Div. 4 state


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