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Light agenda for Marathon City Council meeting

The Marathon City Council has a relatively light agenda for its Tuesday, Oct. 12, meeting, coming off its packed September session.

Marathon memorializes Forster, moves on key issues

Marathon approves millage rate, reviews grant projects

Marathon City Council hears nature-based resort plan

Marathon City Council members heard a detailed, exciting presentation for a new nature-based resort called Valhalla Island at Tuesday’s June session.

Light Marathon City Council agenda offers inspiring moments

The Marathon City Council convened on Tuesday, May 11, with a relatively light agenda, although several inspiring moments — not uncommon in small city council meetings — highlighted the evening. Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay set the tone early by recognizing and introducing a “special guest,” Canine Coral, one of the department’s drug-sniffing dogs, who entertained those on hand with some brief scurrying and sniffing throughout the audience. Later, Mayor Luis Gonzalez introduced 6-year-old Landry Sayer, a Stanley Switlick kindergartner who’d asked to address the city council with a short video, because “she was trying to make a difference,” as Gonzalez explained. What followed was a short, well-produced video on how this little “trash activist,” who walked her dog every night while also picking up trash, wanted to help clean up Marathon. After the video, Gonzalez pledged to arrange a city-wide cleanup event in the fall, based on