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Marathon County’s library director resigned in the midst of an investigation into the library system’s culture more details will be revealed at the Library Board’s next meeting in June.

When asked if the goal was to get to a safer, healthier library environment, Puerner says that is the goal of the board and the county.

NCHC CEO placed on administrative leave following closed session

The head of North Central Health Care was placed on administrative leave Thursday — and officials aren’t saying why.

NCHC’s Executive Committee Thursday placed CEO Michael Loy on administrative leave following a long closed session meeting. The CFO, Jill Meschke, was named interim CEO in Loy’s absence.

Marathon County Administrator Lance Leonhard told City Pages the Executive Committee was authorized Loy to take “appropriate action” based on guidance from the NCHC Board.

According to a statement provided by Scott Corbett, the board on Jan. 28 and Feb. 12 voted to retain a third party to review NCHC compensation and benefits practices. The board retained Von Briesen to review the matter.

Most of the details were discussed in closed session and have not been made available to the public. Officials deflected many of City Pages’ requests for further information.

Loy was named CEO in 2017 and had overseen a massive campus overhaul, including the county’s nursing home, Mount View Care Center. He has been employed with NCHC since 2014, according to a release from NCHC. The board is expected to release its full report soon.

New deal for CGI sent back for more details

A new plan to deal with a breach of contract that was nearly forgotten with a developer has been sent back to the city attorney.

The city council last week chose not to act on a new deal with software firm CGI, after it was learned that the city’s deal with the company CGI took over for, Collaborative Consulting, was in breach after Collaborative didn’t meet its jobs obligation under its contract with the city in exchange for receiving $200,000.

According to a development agreement the city signed with Collaborative Consulting to bring IT jobs to the city, the company was awarded a grant of $200,000 in exchange for creating 200 jobs. That total was never met - the company at its most had 159 jobs. At the end of the five-year period, the company only employed 103.

The company ultimately merged with CGI, which told city officials it had no knowledge of the prior contract with the city.

At an earlier meeting, city officials learned that former Community Development Director Chris Schock never followed up on holding the company to account, and when the city attorney drafted a letter to Collaborative about the deal, Schock had her hold off.

Under a proposed new agreement, the city would forgive the $155,000 of the $200,000, and would need to pay back the $45,000 remaining unless it kept a minimum of 50 employees every year for three years. The city would forgive $15,000 per year if the requirement is met.

But, questions arose over how full-time status would be measured, how local those employees need to be (many said the employees should not only be employed from the Wausau office but should also live here) and how the city would keep tabs on it.

City attorney Anne Jacobson will be working out the details of the new plan and will bring it back to the city council for further review.

City: No Mow May a success

Nearly 500 people in Wausau signed up for No Mow May, according to city officials.

According to Mayor Katie Rosenberg, 488 people signed up for No Mow May, and another 40 also signed up to be citizen scientists to study the project’s effect on bees.

No Mow May allowed people to not mow their yards in the month of May to provide pollinators with more plants from which to grow. May is the crucial month for pollinators as the dandelions and other plants in yards provide crucial nutrients; after May other plants fill that role, coordinator Israel del Toro told the city. Del Toro started the program in Appleton.

The city is recommending that those now mowing the tall grass don’t blow them into the sidewalks or street, but rather that they take them to the city’s yard waste site or otherwise dispose of them properly.

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The Marathon Public Library’s Director resigned last week in the midst of an investigation conducted by the county into allegations of a hostile work culture in the library system.

Library Director Ralph Illick submitted his resignation Thursday prior to the start of the closed session portion of a special Marathon County Library Board meeting looking into the allegations.

Marathon County Deputy Corporation Counsel Mike Puerner said the county hired law firm Von Briesen and Illick Roper to investigate a complaint about the culture of the library. Puerner told City Pages that the investigation is ongoing and that he is not at liberty to discuss further details about the allegations.

Illick was placed on leave prior to the meeting, and Library Services Manager Leah Giordano was named interim library director.

Attorneys from Von Briesen and Roper interviewed employees of the library and provided the details of their investigation to the Marathon County Library Board Thursday.

The board accepted Illick’s resignation Thursday and authorized the county’s employee resource director to draft a severance agreement with Illick.

The investigation also implicated two other employees, Business Manager Tom O’Neill and Support Services Manager Matthew Derpinghaus. The Library Board authorized the employee resources director and interim library director to take “appropriate action” against those employees. Puerner wouldn’t elaborate on the nature of that action.

Illick and the Marathon County Library System were in the middle of a controversy surrounding the potential change of library systems. Illick had been pushing to change the library’s interlibrary loan service from Wisconsin Valley to South Central, a move he said would save the library money and provide a better range of services. The Library Board initially approved it then put a halt to the plan in order to study it more.

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The city’s Economic Development and Finance committees each approved providing that amount out of funds from money the city received from the American Rescue Plan.

The city received $7.7 million in funding total, according to the city’s finance director, Maryanne Groat. There are a limited number of ways the funds can be spent, but one of them is on affordable housing.

The city just approved starting a task force to investigate the issue of affordable housing in Wausau, but city leaders when passing it said the length of time the task force takes in forming its recommendations wouldn’t stop the city from acting on projects as they come up. The Landmark falls into that category.

Right now, there are around 105 units in the Landmark, says Gorman and Co. Wisconsin Market President Ted Matkom and has typically been a 50-50 mix of people whose income would qualify them to live in a place with rent that low, and those who could afford much more but simply enjoy paying lower rent. When the renovations are complete as a Section 42 housing, there will be income requirements for who can rent the 94 units that will remain following the renovation.

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Kilian suggested the city consider adding additional money, perhaps from the American Rescue Plan funds, to help provide some funds to help them move and provide a “soft landing” to help those displaced by the project.

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GOP-run budget committee approves education measures in conflict with Evers’ plan The GOP-controlled Joint Finance Committee has voted to put $128 million in state tax dollars into K-12 education, rework a pot of federal money to reward districts that have been offering in-person instruction and end the tuition freeze in the UW System.

Along with allowing the cap on in-state, undergrad tuition to go away, the higher education motion approved 11-4 along party lines in late May would add $22.3 million in additional general taxpayer revenue for the UW System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the Higher Educational Aids Board.

It’s a fraction of what Gov. Tony Evers had proposed for the three. He wanted to put $191.6 million into the UW System, including $50.4 million to fund his plan to extend the tuition freeze by another two years.

He also called for an additional $36 million for the Wisconsin Technical College System and $34.3 million for the Higher Educational Aid Board, which provides need-based grants to residents enrolled in UW schools, tech colleges and private colleges in the state.

Along with the $128 million boost in GPR, the GOP motion on K-12 would transfer $350 million to the state’s budget stabilization fund that could be tapped later for education costs and other expenses.

Dems knocked the move, suggesting their GOP counterparts wouldn’t agree to dip into the rainy day fund to pull back the $350 million for education. They also argued the GOP move threatened the state’s ability to qualify for federal aid.

Republicans argued the state funds they approved couldn’t be viewed in a vacuum, pointing to the $2.4 billion in federal funds set to flow into Wisconsin schools

over three federal COVID-19 packages approved over the past year.

Rep. Jessie Rodriguez, R-Oak Creek, noted when Evers built his budget, the guv wasn’t aware of the third round of federal funding that was approved weeks later. That package includes $1.5 billion of the $2.4 billion “It is hard to talk about how we’re going to fund our schools and ignore the fact that we have so much federal funding coming into the state. It is part of the conversation,” Rodriguez said.

But Sen. Jon Erpenbach, D-Middleton, argued the GOP package threatened some of the federal money Wisconsin schools are slated to receive.

Lawmakers debate transgender sports bills

Assembly Education Committee Dems slammed Republicans for supporting a bill they say could increase suicide rates among transgender kids. One of the bill’s sponsors countered by saying a new co-ed category created by the bill makes it inclusive.

The bill would ban transgender girls who were born male from competing in Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association women’s sports categories, but it would still allow transgender boys who were born female to compete in men’s categories. And the bill would create a separate co-ed category for those athletes who want to compete against any gender.

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Rep. Sondy Pope, D-Mt. Horeb, and several members of the public opposing the bill argued AB 196 would create more divisions between girls who were born female and girls who transitioned from male. Pope also says the bill would not fairly protect the rights of all women because it would only protect those born female while excluding those who transitioned to become women.

But Rep. Barbara Dittrich, R-Oconomowoc, countered that the bill is “exemplary” because students who don’t fit into male or female WIAA sports categories could join a third co-ed category the bill would create. She added the bill is incredibly inclusive because of that provision.

Evers administration lays out postpandemic vision for state workforce

The Evers administration has laid out goals to reduce state office space by 10 percent over the next decade while increasing the number of employees who live outside of Madison.

Dubbed “Vision 2030,” the 18-page document lays out goals for the state’s workforce and the amount of office space needed. For example, it cites a pre-pandemic study that found 70 percent of the workforce will be working remotely at least five days a month by 2025.

It also notes that current data indicate almost 40 percent of state employees will reach retirement age within the next decade.

To accomplish some of those goals, the document calls for spending $168.5 million on a new state office building in Milwaukee and beginning the process of redeveloping current office space in downtown Madison. Gov. Tony Evers included both projects in his capital budget, but Republicans have balked at spending that money, arguing the future needs of the state’s workforce are unknown as it emerges from the pandemic.

Medicaid expansion stalls again

Republican legislative leaders on May 25 quickly adjourned a special session Gov. Tony Evers called to expand Medicaid. Evers and minority Dems slammed the GOP move.

In the Assembly, Rep. Mike Kuglitsch, R-New Berlin, and Assistant Majority Leader Kevin Petersen, R-Waupaca, convened and gaveled out the session in about 30 seconds as a handful of Dem members voiced their objections.

Evers signed an executive order last week creating the special session and pledged to use $850 million the state would get from the feds for expanding Medicaid to pay for a string of projects. Many of the proposals Evers wants to fund with the federal money are in GOP districts.

Republicans have dismissed the proposal as an expansion of welfare, and GOP leaders last week called Evers’ latest effort to pressure them a political stunt.

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Of the $22.3 million the committee proposed for the three areas, $5 million would go toward a freshwater collaboration that involves the 13 UW campuses as well as industry, local communities and others. The effort’s mission is to establish Wisconsin as a leader in water-related science.

Another $5 million would go to HEAB to help fund grants for students who enroll in nursing programs. The money would also help repay loans for faculty in nursing programs.

GOP lawmakers also want to put $2 million into ag agents at UW-Extension and $750,000 for foster youth programs.

In all four cases, the money would go into Joint Finance’s supplemental appropriation and the university would have to come back to the committee with plans to use the money before it would be released.

Sen. LaTonya Johnson, D-Milwaukee, noted GOP leaders earlier this spring had said the state was in a strong position to cut taxes. Yet her Republican counterparts aren’t using the state’s strong economic position to invest in constituencies such as college students.

“Where’s their piece of our strong financial position?” she said.

Kooyenga slammed Democratic complaints about the investment in the UW System, noting that Evers required the university to lapse $86 million as part of his administration’s moves to prepare for the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on state revenues. In January, the Legislative Fiscal Bureau projected the state would finish the current fiscal year on June 30 with a surplus of nearly $1.9 billion and another $1 billion in revenue growth.

LFB is expected to soon do another projection that takes into account a tax cut signed into law in February that will reduce revenues by a projected $595 million through mid-2023.

“The rhetoric that you just heard about support for the university is the same, tired political rhetoric as far as where Republicans are on education and where Democrats are on education,” Kooyenga said.

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The University of Wisconsin tuition freeze that’s been in place for the past eight years would expire under a Republican motion the Joint Finance Committee approved in late May. Along with allowing the cap on in-state, undergrad tuition to go away, the motion would add $22.3 million in additional general taxpayer revenue for the UW System, the Wisconsin Technical College System and the Higher Educational Aids Board. The measures will need to get approval from both houses of the Legislature and the governor to become law.

It’s a fraction of what Gov. Tony Evers had proposed for the three institutions. He wanted to put $191.6 million into the UW System, including $50.4 million to fund his plan to extend the tuition freeze by another two years.

He also called for an additional $36 million for the Wisconsin Technical College System and $34.3 million for the Higher Educational Aid Board, which provides need-based grants to residents enrolled in UW schools, tech colleges and private colleges in the state.

Rep. Evan Goyke, D-Milwaukee, said he was surprised Republicans were willing to drop the tuition freeze after they have made it a centerpiece of their arguments about college affordability over the last eight years. He also said by failing to put an increase in budget money for UW operations, it was setting up the possibility of a significant tuition hike in the coming two years.

“We have the funds to do it, but not the political will,” Goyke said.

Sen. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, said the freeze made sense when it was first put in place in the 2013-15 budget because the UW System was seeking a 6 percent tuition increase even with $1 billion in reserve funds that it hadn’t properly disclosed to the public.

He said the university has dramatically increased transparency since then and there needs to be a “glide path” off the freeze. He also said there is a bill working its way through the Legislature that would put a cap on how large future increases could be while offering a warning to the system.

“Listen carefully, UW, you’re looking at the guardrails,” Kooyenga said, referring to the committee. “If UW decides

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COVER FEATURE

by B.C. Kowalski

NOT SO FAST

The New York Times put Wausau in damage control mode after a national story about the failure of the A Community for All resolution. But a new version is coming.

It started with a tweet. A New York Times reporter who had previously worked at the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel saw a tweet about the A Community for All resolution and decided they should check into it. They came to Wausau, asked around, met with the mayor, got a lay of the land.

The reporter and a photographer were at the Marathon County Executive meeting last month in which A Community for All was discussed and ultimately defeated. It was a long meeting, and a good portion of it revolved around A Community for All. That was on Thursday, May 13. On Tuesday, May 18, the New York Times story “A Community for All? Not so fast, this Wisconsin county says.” came out.

It wasn’t flattering. The comments were even less so. A few of them: “Another flyover state, so many and so little time flying time.”

“Anyone who uses “the coloreds” and “the gays” and says they aren’t racist is - indeed - racist.”

“Economic pressure seems to be the only mechanism to break these logjams. Boycott Mutual of Wausau Insurance and other local corporations.”

“Wisconsin is definitely a racist state, particularly in its rural communities. The nuckleheads [sic] who deny this are either ignorant or lying. I’ve lived in WI for 30 years and have always been appalled by the racist tendencies of the “natives”.”

Mayor Katie Rosenberg still hasn’t caught up with the emails coming in from all over the country about the article. (Though it was a county decision, many of the comments decry “Wausau” as having rejected the resolution.)

“People were asking in emails ‘how does it feel to be the face of white supremacy and the KKK, and all those other subhumans you represent?’” Rosenberg says. “Part of me is working on not being defensive, but also I want to defend my community.”

The fallout from the New York Times article, which Rosenberg called the most damaging since The Atlantic’s article, has put people on the left and right on their heels, reeling about what to do. Rosenberg felt that she needed to act, and later Tuesday afternoon held a press conference declaring the city A Community for All. She messaged many of the angry commenters back explaining that she was in favor of the resolution, and was introducing a similar measure in Wausau. That mullified many of them.

But how much good that will do is anyone’s guess. What happens next is also anyone’s guess.

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A number of people from all political stripes reached out to me after the story ran, and they weren’t happy about it.

Some felt it was unfair to the people quoted in the story.

Others on the liberal side of the political spectrum, those who might otherwise have been the New York Times’ subscriber base, recognized the damage just as clearly. For them, the story set back efforts at making Wausau a more inclusive place.

Rosenberg heard from many businesses happy for the city’s resolution in response, though many are keeping quiet about that support. Rosenberg says she didn’t want to speak for them but anecdotes from several businesses have reached City Pages ears.

Getting people to talk about it is another matter. City Pages has had trouble getting business owners to speak about it beyond canned statements.

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It’s not like Wausau hasn’t had a rough history with racism. The Times doesn’t mention this context either, but prior to the 1970s Wausau was the major metro of what was the whitest Congressional district in the country. Bar none.

That changed with the Hmong migration that started in

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hearing there were efforts around inclusion and diversity following the vote, but the company declined comment.

What about the medical college? City Pages asked Lisa Dodson, Dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin, whether the medical school was concerned about the resolution’s failure and the subsequent New York Times article would have an impact on recruiting efforts. Dodson responded with a statement: “The Medical College of Wisconsin-Central Wisconsin campus maintains our strong commitment to helping create a diverse physician workforce to meet the needs of central and northern Wisconsin. We will continue to recruit and admit students who will help us meet that objective. We will continue to work with our many partners in the Central Wisconsin community who support these efforts.”

Grand Theater Executive Director Sean Wright told City Pages says there hasn’t been an impact on booking shows yet and there hadn’t been any cancellations yet, but it’s something that’s on the Grand Theater leader’s mind.

“Agents/artists/producers are always aware of where they are taking their shows and choosing to perform, so it’s certainly something we’ll have to be aware of and ready to have discussions with those respective shows as they come up.”

City Pages reached out to Dave Eckmann, CEO of the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce. A big part of the Chamber’s focus in the past few years has been workforce recruitment and talent; and that means attracting people from outside the area.

With so many municipalities competing for workers, and so few of them to go around, it’s objectively a bad gambit to say no to anyone based on their identity.

Embracing diversity and inclusion, even from a purely Machiavellian strategic view, would seem optimal even if a company or municipality doesn’t agree with it. And likely that’s a calculation many businesses are making.

As of press time City Pages had not received a comment from Eckmann.

the 1970s and continued on through the 80s and into the 90s. The 80s were not a pretty time in Wausau for anyone who wasn’t white and, frankly, if you were white and not racist. It was common to hear jokes about minorities.

That was the early 90s. We can go back to the 80s when Wausau was the center of the spear-fishing debates.

Wausau’s history with racism isn’t pretty.

Wausau’s history with being vilified by national media isn’t new either. “In the late 1980s and early 1990s, racial tensions between the native- and foreign-born populations gripped central Wisconsin. Less than a hundred years earlier, hostilities in that part of the country centered around immigrant populations arriving from Europe—Norwegians, Swedes, Italians, and Poles. This time, however, the new arrivals were refugees from Indochina, especially the hill-tribe group called the Hmong (pronounced “MOHng”).” That was from a piece in The Atlantic called “To be both Midwestern and Hmong” from 2016.

Preceding that was a hit job by 60 Minutes. Rob Mentzer, then writing for the Wausau Daily Herald, called the 1994 profile on Wausau “a blunt instrument.” Former Marathon County Administrator Brad Karger said something similar to me a few years ago.

The opposition

City Pages reached out to both Craig McEwen and EJ Stark. Both expressed concerns about the resolution at the meeting.

“I understand what the Diversity Affairs Commission is trying to do, it says in their mission statement to ensure that Marathon County is a open and inclusive and diverse place to live or work,” McEwen says, pointing out that it’s already in Marathon County’s comprehensive plan. “I believe that the majority of people in Marathon County feel that everyone should be treated… and not discriminated against.”

McEwen says he didn’t want to see policies based on race. “Segregation causes division.”

Stark brought up concerns about the legality of the resolution, citing similar legal issues when he worked

for an insurance company. He shared concerns that the county could be opening itself up to legal issues. Similar concerns came up at city hall over a resolution about environmental justice.

Stark in a meeting several years ago spoke about how he kicked contractor out of his house for disparaging Hmong people. He served alongside them in the Vietnam War as a Marine and had the utmost respect for them.

That anecdote didn’t make the Times story. Nor did the fact that all of them voted for a resolution that recognized missing indigenous women, right before the A Community for All resolution came up for discussion.

Neither McEwen or Stark responded to request for comment.

Some, such as Joanne Leonard, said the resolution was divisive. Leonard joined members of the diversity affairs commission in crafted a new resolution that was more palatable to more conservative members, but that version was ultimately rejected by the commission, which recommended its original version.

Others were more sharp in their criticism. Jack Hoogendyk, a former county board member and former Michigan legislator, said it was critical race theory in disguise; the very thing McGary railed against in his later speech to the county board.

Damage control

Rosenberg stood on the steps of City Hall and proclaimed that Wausau would in fact be a community welcoming for all. She was flanked by Yee Leng Xiong, Executive Director of the Hmong American Center; Ka Lo, a member of the Marathon County Board and the Wausau School Board; and County Board Member William Harris.

Rosenberg’s move wasn’t necessarily intentionally about damage control, but in a lot of ways that’s what it was. Marshfield Clinic thanked her in a tweet. More business leaders reached out privately to express support.

“We have manufacturers and food processors in our county that rely on a diverse workforce,” Rosenberg says.

Businesses across the country have steered into embrac-

ing the language of diversity, whether sincerely or strategically. “Either they’re sick of fighting it or they’re worried about what their community will say.”

Rosenberg says we should be having the conversation, and that does mean sitting down and listening to all sides.

Because nearly everyone can agree that we will indeed to address the city and county’s shrinking workforce. “We can’t do it if the first thing they Google is this.”

Shortly thereafter, Monk Gardens announced that the gardens would be known as a Garden for All. The idea of inclusivity in the botanical gardens industry is something the industry is discussing very seriously these days, says Executive Director Darcie Howard. And it has been a key issue for Monk Gardens as well.

“One of the things that happens is gardens can be considered elitist,” Howard says. “But we’re a newer garden and growing in a way that we have the luxury of doing things right the first time. We want to make sure everything we’re doing in programming, social media, website, events, that we’re welcoming to all community members.”

For example, the garden highlights a new book every few weeks for parents to read with their kids. The books they’re choosing focus on different cultures every few weeks.

Neither Rosenberg nor Howard had noticed anyone else doing anything similar. But that might be coming.

Whether someone is on the right or left, or somewhere in the middle as many are, almost no one is happy about the Times’ article. It’s biggest contextual error is that it failed to point out that this is something happening across the U.S. Pretending like this discussion is unique to Wausau is flat out wrong.

But it’s something Wausau will be dealing with for some time. The Diversity Affairs Commission passed a new version of the A Community for All resolution. And, Xiong says, a group of supervisors are meeting soon to discuss potential revisions before it comes before the Executive Committee.

Long after the New York Times left town, the discussion is far from over.

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Classic rock. 7 pm. 715-496-0362 Brad Emanuel Band · Arrow Sports Club, Weston.

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715-355-5432 Sunday June 6 Tom Mijal & Polka Access · Gorski’s, Mosinee.

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715-845-2030 Tuck Pence · M & R Station, Wausau. Variety. 2 pm.

715-298-5995 Scott Kirby Duo · The Rock, Merrill. Acoustic variety & original music. 2 pm. 715-536-8560 Tuesday June 8 Pam and Scott Koehn Spotlight Polka Band · Bull Falls Brewery, Wausau. Polka. 7 pm.

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715-544-6500 Max Koepke · Rookies Sportspub, Stevens Point.

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715-693-4001 Montana & Mike · District 1 Brewing Company, Stevens Point. Variety. 6:30 pm. 715-544-6707 Vada’s Rockhouse · Office Bar, Schofield.

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Country and original. 8:30 pm. 715-344-7026 Sunday June 13 Hayes Boys · Gorski’s, Mosinee. Variety. 1 pm.

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ON STAGE Levitt Amp Concert Series: Mike Mains & the Branches · Thurs. 6/3, Pfiffner Park, Stevens Point. Indie rock. 6 pm. Createportagecounty.org Slab · Thurs. 6/3, Tiki Beach Bar and Grill, Mosinee.

Pop and rock. 6 pm. 715-342-2232 “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee”

by Second Act (Playhouse Theatre Group) · Thurs.-Sat. 6/3-6/5, hosted by the Playhouse Theatre Group at Benjamin Franklin Junior High, 2000 Polk St, Stevens Point. Watch a show that mixes a spelling bee with comedy. Recommended for ages 14 and up due to mature humor. Starts at 7 pm. $12 per guest. Buy your tickets at www.playhousetheatergroup.com/putnamcounty-spelling-bee-tickets/ Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad · Available through Fri. 6/4, hosted online by the Grand Theater. Learn about Harriet Tubman and how she helped countless slaves. 8 am. grandtheater.org MC Classic Rock Fest · Fri. 6/4- Sat. 6/5, MC Festivals, Gleason. Sideshow. 5 pm. Classic rock.

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Variety. 3 pm. 715-344-9825 Notes at Night: Steve Strasman · Wed. 6/16, Mathias Mitchell Public Park, Stevens Point.

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Free. www.marshfieldcivicband.org Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood · Thurs.-Sat 6/17-6/19, hosted by Monk Botanical Gardens at 1800 N 1st Ave, Wausau. Bring a blanket and chair and watch a play about Maid Marian and her merry band. Soda, beer, wine and food available for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. Starts at 6:30 pm. $20 adults non member, $18 adult member, Children 18 and under are $15 non member and $13 member. www.monkgardens.org

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Starts at 7 pm. Free. http://www.whitewatermusichall.com Notes at Night: Doug Sheen · Wed. 6/9, Mathias Mitchell Public Park, Stevens Point. Acoustic and new rock. 5:30 pm.

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